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Marilyn Lennon is an artist and an
educator. She has exhibited extensively and is founder and co-director of the
SpiritStore art project .
Her PhD, supervised by Prof. Liam Bannon, explored how expertise in Art and Design practice is employed to support and facilitate participants in Participatory Design sessions. Research and educational interests include the theories and practices of both Interaction Design and Socially Engaged Art practice. Specialties include Social Practice in Art and Design, Interaction Design (specifically in public spaces and in health informatics), project management, ethnographic research methodologies, contextual research, low-tech prototype generation and evaluation and Participation and Collaboration in Art and Design. In ‘09/’10 as part of a small team she co-wrote a Masters programme in Social Practice in Art and Design, as a result she is currently Joint Programme Leader of the MA in Social Practice and the Creative Environment, (MA SPACE) at Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick Institute of Technology. The first cohort completed in Sept 2011. As a lecturer she is experienced in a broad range of Art and Design disciplines and has been postgraduate academic advisor at a number of international Interaction Design in Public Spaces events including, The Siena Design Project, Italy, '03 and 04, and the Convivio International Summer Schools, Romania and Sweden '05 and '07 and Split Interactions, Croatia '08. Collaborative projects carried out in Sweden '07 and Croatia '08 with designers, postgraduate students and the public were entered and resulted in winning the Grand Prix at the Zagrebacki Salon '09, the highest Croatian award for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. She has managed and consulted on several interdisciplinary Interaction Design research projects at the Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland were she spent seven years as a Research Officer working with people from a variety of disciplines from engineering, to architecture, psychology and computer science. From there she obtained two patents, has published journal, conference, and workshop papers. |
