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Organisational Design (School Design Team) Committee
26th January 2022
Con Kennedy was appointed to the TU Dublin Organisational Design (School Design Team) Committee, overseeing the school's transition into the new Faculty of Arts and Humanities and developing the future strategic plan for the school.
Designing A Module In Entrepreneurship For Product Design Students
30th April 2021
Authors: PJ White, IT Carlow and Con Kennedy, TU Dublin.
Creative problem-solving has been identified as one of the most critical future-proof skills we can develop in our society. When educating future designers, entrepreneurship skills are now considered essential; however, designers find it difficult to establish themselves as entrepreneurs. Therefore, graduate designers increasingly need these skills to complement their creative abilities. This paper offers information to academic institutions looking to implement entrepreneurship modules in existing design and creative programmes. The paper seeks to understand the entrepreneurship skills required for product design graduates through a case study. Current teaching practice is described, and interviews and co-design sessions with relevant stakeholders are conducted to inform future entrepreneurship education for product design students. From these findings, a module descriptor entitled ‘Entrepreneurship for Designers’ was created for an existing programme and delivered through both practice and theory. This module is intended to provide an understanding of the entrepreneurship process and to offer students the confidence to pursue design-related ventures post-graduation.
Journal: Sage: Industry & Higher Education, Volume 36, Issue 2.
TU Dublin 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
15th November 2019
Con Kennedy will present his "Design as Entrepreneurship: Towards a Design-Specific Entrepreneurship Framework" research—a poster and oral presentation, TU Dublin 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium November 2019.
Zig Zag Seat
30th August 2018
Zig Zag Seat is a public realm project designed by Con Kennedy and Barry Sheehan in conjunction with A Playful City and engineer Loscher Moran.
Design Management Institute: 2018 ADMC Conference
1st August 2018
Con Kennedy will deliver a paper entitled "Creativity’s Risk to Design" at the 21st Design Management Institute: Academic Design Management Conference, Ravensbourne College of Art, London, UK.
Design Research Society Conference
25th June 2018
Con Kennedy will deliver a paper on a proposed Design Entrepreneurship Framework - Design Research Society Conference & PhD By Design, University of Limerick, Limerick, 25th-28th June 2018.
EURAM: Research in Action Conference
19th June 2018
Con Kennedy will present a paper entitled "Understanding the Utilisation of Entrepreneurial Processes in Communication Design Enterprises" at the European Academy of Management conference at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.
Design Principles and Practices: No Boundaries Design Conference
5th March 2018
Con Kennedy will present a paper titled "Toward a Design-led Entrepreneurship Framework" at the 12th Annual Design Principles and Practices Conference at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Spain.
Con Kennedy Appointed Visiting Professor of Design to the Beijing University of Technology
1st March 2018
Con Kennedy was appointed a visiting design professor at the Gengdan Academy of Design, part of the Beijing University of Technology, China. As part of an international panel of design experts and visiting professors, Con will deliver visual communication design modules to recruit Chinese students to complete their design degrees at TU Dublin.
7th Annual DIT Postgraduate Research Symposium
2nd February 2017
Con Kennedy will present his research "Does the Model of Lean Startup Entrepreneurship Apply to Visual Communication Practices?". A poster and Oral Presentation 7th Annual Postgraduate Research Symposium, DIT, Focas Research Institute, February 2017.