January SEED salon: Sean McDougall
Tuesday January 9, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
Donation: 5 Euro.
How can connecting art, science and engineering transform education?
SEAN MCDOUGALL has some provocative ideas about this which he will
explore through his new intelligent fountain project with FutureLab
and other adventures in learning through design.
SEAN MCDOUGALL is Managing Director of Stakeholder Design. He came
into prominence as a commentator on the Northern Ireland peace process
and his suggestions influenced the design of the decommissioning
process. Sean was a founder member of the UK Department for Education
and Skills Schools Design Advisory Council, which is overseeing the
implementation of Building Schools for the Future and the Academies
programme. He has helped a number of organisations to improve their
dialogue with young people, and he advises Back Care, a national
charity concerned with the negative impact that poor school furniture
has on physical health. a and seminars on risk management for the
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Prior to establishing
Stakeholder Design, Sean was Campaign Leader for Learning Environments
at the UK's Design Council. Here, he was responsible for a
Government-funded investigation of how to use design to improve
educational outcomes. The result, Schools Renaissance, changed the way
in which schools across England think of themselves. Its process of
user-led design allowed teachers and students to co-design their own
outcomes rather than commissioning specialist suppliers. Outcomes from
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