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The Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects exhibition was a collaborative community event led by developmenteducation.ie and partners including 80:20 at Clare Street, Dublin.
Photographer: Joshua Mulholland; Designed by Conor Clarke and Ruby Corcoran at Design Factory
The way we think, act and live is ever changing, often driven by new ideas, technologies and social movements.
By engaging with public spaces and the arts we can foster more globally informed and active communities.
In doing this, 80:20 makes a contribution towards deeper, sustainable impacts on education work and social justice both locally and globally.
Big Decisions Take Big People
The Big Decisions Take Big People mural project highlighted young voices advocating for diversity and inclusion and was led with the student council of St. Cronan’s National School in Bray and illustrator & muralist Holly Pereira.
The Walls
From Belfast to Bray, Skerries, Malta, Barcelona, Tallaght, Lusaka, Limerick and beyond, co-designing community mural projects is an essential part of our education practice in human rights memory work, and imagining possible futures.
Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects exhibition
Showcasing the heritage of global citizenship in Ireland, the Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects exhibition uncovers the many contributions, stories and campaigns, expressed through artefacts, letters and visual arts that bring these histories to life.
This community engagement project was organised by developmenteducation.ie, and coordinated by Aidlink, Concern Worldwide, the Irish Development Education Association, the National Youth Council of Ireland, Self Help Africa, Trócaire and 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World.
The Irish Global Solidarity in 100 Objects podcast series showcases educators, activists and campaigners based on the stories behind the 100 objects featured in the exhibition.
Produced by developmenteducation.ie and hosted by Ciara Regan
The installation was recreated online as a digital exhibition with extras and a set of teaching materials for educators to adapt and use.
The exhibition team continue to support other community adaptations for other pop-up global citizenship education exhibition projects.
Cartoons
The voices, perspectives and pens of cartoonists continue to elicit considerable comment in education work.
From Martyn Turner to John Stuart Clark aka ‘BRICK’, Pan Cooke and cartoonists from the Cartoon Movement, 80:20 draws attention to the role of art in human rights education by featuring the work of political cartoonists.
Community engagement
Bray Literary Festival
As part of the annual Bray Literary Festival events in north Wicklow, 80:20 hosted the ‘politics’ sessions with writers, poets, authors and campaigners from 2017 – 2022.
Sessions topics included peace keeping, tackling fake news and writers responding to crises’.
Boats at Sea
A group of young people from Bray came together to produce a public art installation on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria, led by art teacher Clifton Rooney of Presentation College, Bray and 80:20.
Involving over 400 participants, the interactive artwork was installed at the Change the World Youth Summit in Dublin on the Sustainable Development Goals in Dublin, organised by Concern Worldwide and the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) in 2015.
Mixing food, personal biographies and cooking as part of ‘Food Stories‘ workshops with direct provision residents at the Bray Literary Festival, in partnership with Fighting Words and artist Katie Ceekay.
The Change Lab.
80:20 has supported teachers in initial teacher education at The Change Lab annually, led by the School of Education in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
The Change Lab is a critical space for learning, thinking and re-imagining the possibilities of how art and design curriculum in second level can be taught through a development education lens.
Where There Is No Engineer Design Competition
Guest judge at the National Finals of the in the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin.
