Nano Nagle Place
This project was initiated in the early stages of the design of Nano Nagle Place (NNP). NNP is on a 3.7 acre site located in the centre of Cork city and was opened in the summer of 2017 as a public heritage site. NNP offers a historical background to the provision of education in Ireland stemming from Nano Nagle’s work in the penal times to the present. CIT’s collaboration with NNP is primarily focused on the centre’s educational programme and overlaps with research interests spanning design, media technology, narrative and material culture. NNP as part of this collaboration funds two postgraduate scholarships in design. There are typically several individual projects running concurrently which are managed by staff and students in the Department of Media Communications.
The redeveloped Nano Nagle Place (NNP) opened to the public in the summer of 2017
A second project conducted under this association with Nano Nagle Place is a Cork History Animation Project and is due for completion in early 2018. This character animation project was negotiated between Scoil Fhionnbarra National School in the Gaeltacht Mhúscraí, second year students of the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media in CIT, and the Nano Nagle Place.
As part of their history curriculum the fifth and sixth class national school pupils were introduced to material about 18th century Cork with a particular emphasis on the impact of the penal laws. Twenty-one pupils created drawings of characters and short fictional stories about them which were submitted on worksheets designed for the project. This narrative material was then used to initiate storyboards created by students on the Applied Animation module in Creative Digital Media. The class group were briefed to collectively design and animate a story which involved all the characters imagined by the children. The project operates within an academic frame where heritage content is produced by communities attached to museums. The outcomes of the project are due to be published in spring 2018 with aims to present the work publicly in NNP.
Drawings and stories imagined by national school pupils were used to guide students of the BA(Hons) Creative Digital Media in their design of a short-animated film.
