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Marilyn Lennon is an artist and an educator.
In spring 2021 she will join the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland, as a board member.
While this website is mainly concerned with Marilyn lennon's social art practice, a short description of her lecturing and educational activities can be found here -
Marilyn is a lecturer at Limerick School of Art Design, Limerick Institute of Technology since 2006. Co-programme leader - MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment, (MA SPACE) Limerick School of Art and Design.
Marilyn Lennon completed her PhD at the Interaction Design Centre (IDC), an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Limerick under Prof Liam Bannon in 2007. Her research explored methodologies derived from Art and Design practice which support and facilitate participants in Participatory Design, Co-Design and Collaborative Design sessions. She received her Masters of Art from the National College of Art and Design.
She has experience in a broad range of Art and Design disciplines, lecturing in the Limerick School of Art and Design, the University of Limerick and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
She has been postgraduate advisor/artist at a number of international events including, the European Academy of Participation Pilot, London '17, The Siena Design Project, (Interaction Design in Public Spaces) Italy, '03 and 04, and the Convivio International Summer Schools, Romania and Sweden '05 and '07 and Split Interactions, Croatia '08. Collaborative projects that she played a leading role on in Sweden '07 and Croatia '08 with artists, designers, postgraduate students was represented as part of a Split University entry and awarded the Grand Prix at the Zagrebacki Salon '09, the highest Croatian award for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
