Future Island-Island
@futureislandisland.bsky.social
AHRC funded Green Transition Ecosystem- Shaping a greener future through design. 💚
🌐 futureisland-island.org
🌐 futureisland-island.org
Irish Design Week 2025! We're taking part, in collaboration with Belfast Design Week & One Bite Design Studio.
Featuring projects & stories from FII & Hong Kong, exploring design, architecture & sustainability for people, place & planet, and a pop-up display of our fellowships in the BSOA foyer.
Featuring projects & stories from FII & Hong Kong, exploring design, architecture & sustainability for people, place & planet, and a pop-up display of our fellowships in the BSOA foyer.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Irish Design Week 2025! We're taking part, in collaboration with Belfast Design Week & One Bite Design Studio.
Featuring projects & stories from FII & Hong Kong, exploring design, architecture & sustainability for people, place & planet, and a pop-up display of our fellowships in the BSOA foyer.
Featuring projects & stories from FII & Hong Kong, exploring design, architecture & sustainability for people, place & planet, and a pop-up display of our fellowships in the BSOA foyer.
Delighted to share that Gillian Colhoun, our Strategic Development Manager, will take to the stage at the World Design Congress as part of the Designing with Nature Hive Session: Nature’s Inspiration × Human Creativity.
🗓️ Day 2 | 14:00–14:45
📍 Auditorium 2
@designcouncil.bsky.social | @wdo.org
🗓️ Day 2 | 14:00–14:45
📍 Auditorium 2
@designcouncil.bsky.social | @wdo.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Delighted to share that Gillian Colhoun, our Strategic Development Manager, will take to the stage at the World Design Congress as part of the Designing with Nature Hive Session: Nature’s Inspiration × Human Creativity.
🗓️ Day 2 | 14:00–14:45
📍 Auditorium 2
@designcouncil.bsky.social | @wdo.org
🗓️ Day 2 | 14:00–14:45
📍 Auditorium 2
@designcouncil.bsky.social | @wdo.org
Highlight: A full-scale 1:1 timber installation – a screen & travelling exhibition.
On display in QFT foyer on 10 Sept before moving to the Quad at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social (Lanyon Building) for Welcome Week.
Part of The Future Blueprint's collaboration with FII –Delighted to collaborate.
On display in QFT foyer on 10 Sept before moving to the Quad at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social (Lanyon Building) for Welcome Week.
Part of The Future Blueprint's collaboration with FII –Delighted to collaborate.
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Highlight: A full-scale 1:1 timber installation – a screen & travelling exhibition.
On display in QFT foyer on 10 Sept before moving to the Quad at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social (Lanyon Building) for Welcome Week.
Part of The Future Blueprint's collaboration with FII –Delighted to collaborate.
On display in QFT foyer on 10 Sept before moving to the Quad at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social (Lanyon Building) for Welcome Week.
Part of The Future Blueprint's collaboration with FII –Delighted to collaborate.
💡Takeaway
Making it on Rathlin shows how creative tourism can connect visitors to place in meaningful and sustainable ways, through shared skills and storytelling.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, our partners at LIFERaft, and to the Rathlin community for their warm welcome.
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Making it on Rathlin shows how creative tourism can connect visitors to place in meaningful and sustainable ways, through shared skills and storytelling.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, our partners at LIFERaft, and to the Rathlin community for their warm welcome.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
💡Takeaway
Making it on Rathlin shows how creative tourism can connect visitors to place in meaningful and sustainable ways, through shared skills and storytelling.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, our partners at LIFERaft, and to the Rathlin community for their warm welcome.
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Making it on Rathlin shows how creative tourism can connect visitors to place in meaningful and sustainable ways, through shared skills and storytelling.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, our partners at LIFERaft, and to the Rathlin community for their warm welcome.
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📸 Viewed award-winning images from local photographer Johnny Mitchell.
🔁Visited the Boathouse Museum, Breakwater Studio, and Rathlin Co-op to see local creative practice in action.
🪑Took part in reupholstery and jewellery-making workshops with Rathlin makers.
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🔁Visited the Boathouse Museum, Breakwater Studio, and Rathlin Co-op to see local creative practice in action.
🪑Took part in reupholstery and jewellery-making workshops with Rathlin makers.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📸 Viewed award-winning images from local photographer Johnny Mitchell.
🔁Visited the Boathouse Museum, Breakwater Studio, and Rathlin Co-op to see local creative practice in action.
🪑Took part in reupholstery and jewellery-making workshops with Rathlin makers.
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🔁Visited the Boathouse Museum, Breakwater Studio, and Rathlin Co-op to see local creative practice in action.
🪑Took part in reupholstery and jewellery-making workshops with Rathlin makers.
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2 days celebrating creativity & craft on Rathlin Island for August Craft Month.
What did we get up to?
🪡 Heard Rathlin's wool, needlework, and sustainability histories.
🐑 Made wall hangings with naturally dyed Rathlin wool & learned how it's being transformed for sustainable reuse.
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What did we get up to?
🪡 Heard Rathlin's wool, needlework, and sustainability histories.
🐑 Made wall hangings with naturally dyed Rathlin wool & learned how it's being transformed for sustainable reuse.
1/3
August 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
2 days celebrating creativity & craft on Rathlin Island for August Craft Month.
What did we get up to?
🪡 Heard Rathlin's wool, needlework, and sustainability histories.
🐑 Made wall hangings with naturally dyed Rathlin wool & learned how it's being transformed for sustainable reuse.
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What did we get up to?
🪡 Heard Rathlin's wool, needlework, and sustainability histories.
🐑 Made wall hangings with naturally dyed Rathlin wool & learned how it's being transformed for sustainable reuse.
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Do you have a creative child who loves to imagine and play? 🎲
Sign them up for a FREE board game design workshop where kids explore environmental themes and create their own board game!
🔔Fri 15 August | Ulster Museum | Ages 9–11
▶️Get your game on: bit.ly/4fsNpAM
Sign them up for a FREE board game design workshop where kids explore environmental themes and create their own board game!
🔔Fri 15 August | Ulster Museum | Ages 9–11
▶️Get your game on: bit.ly/4fsNpAM
August 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Do you have a creative child who loves to imagine and play? 🎲
Sign them up for a FREE board game design workshop where kids explore environmental themes and create their own board game!
🔔Fri 15 August | Ulster Museum | Ages 9–11
▶️Get your game on: bit.ly/4fsNpAM
Sign them up for a FREE board game design workshop where kids explore environmental themes and create their own board game!
🔔Fri 15 August | Ulster Museum | Ages 9–11
▶️Get your game on: bit.ly/4fsNpAM
✨ Highlight: Exhibition of the modular dry stone wall prototype in the Manor House Walled Garden.
➡️ Next up: Exploring stone types, extraction methods, & more prototypes.
FII fellowship | @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons.
➡️ Next up: Exploring stone types, extraction methods, & more prototypes.
FII fellowship | @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons.
July 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
✨ Highlight: Exhibition of the modular dry stone wall prototype in the Manor House Walled Garden.
➡️ Next up: Exploring stone types, extraction methods, & more prototypes.
FII fellowship | @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons.
➡️ Next up: Exploring stone types, extraction methods, & more prototypes.
FII fellowship | @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons.
On Friday, we were on Rathlin exploring stone as a natural material for a circular economy.
We heard about NI's stone resources, benefits of using natural materials, low-carbon ways to retrofit buildings and global approaches to sustainable stone construction.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
We heard about NI's stone resources, benefits of using natural materials, low-carbon ways to retrofit buildings and global approaches to sustainable stone construction.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
On Friday, we were on Rathlin exploring stone as a natural material for a circular economy.
We heard about NI's stone resources, benefits of using natural materials, low-carbon ways to retrofit buildings and global approaches to sustainable stone construction.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
We heard about NI's stone resources, benefits of using natural materials, low-carbon ways to retrofit buildings and global approaches to sustainable stone construction.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Fungal Learning – A collaborative project. 🍄
Tomorrow, Wed 30 July | Void Art Centre
Void Art Centre is hosting Ann Henderson and Vanya Lambrecht as they share their research, Fungal Learning, a Rathlin Creative Fellowship project through Future Island-Island.
#fungi #research #design
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Tomorrow, Wed 30 July | Void Art Centre
Void Art Centre is hosting Ann Henderson and Vanya Lambrecht as they share their research, Fungal Learning, a Rathlin Creative Fellowship project through Future Island-Island.
#fungi #research #design
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July 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We're hosting a hands-on design workshop at the @ulstermuseum.org for young designers and eco-advocates.
Children will be introduced to design thinking and create their own board games that explore how environmental themes shape our world.
FII | Ulster Uni | Hub Games
Game on▶️ bit.ly/3TIR83a
Children will be introduced to design thinking and create their own board games that explore how environmental themes shape our world.
FII | Ulster Uni | Hub Games
Game on▶️ bit.ly/3TIR83a
July 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We're hosting a hands-on design workshop at the @ulstermuseum.org for young designers and eco-advocates.
Children will be introduced to design thinking and create their own board games that explore how environmental themes shape our world.
FII | Ulster Uni | Hub Games
Game on▶️ bit.ly/3TIR83a
Children will be introduced to design thinking and create their own board games that explore how environmental themes shape our world.
FII | Ulster Uni | Hub Games
Game on▶️ bit.ly/3TIR83a
We're celebrating the wonder of Rathlin wool with a workshop where you will:
🪡 discover traditional crafting techniques
🐑 explore locally sourced island wool
🌿 take home a handcrafted piece inspired by Rathlin’s landscape
Part of an overnight craft package (7-8 Aug).
Book now: bit.ly/45fJCDf
🪡 discover traditional crafting techniques
🐑 explore locally sourced island wool
🌿 take home a handcrafted piece inspired by Rathlin’s landscape
Part of an overnight craft package (7-8 Aug).
Book now: bit.ly/45fJCDf
July 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We're celebrating the wonder of Rathlin wool with a workshop where you will:
🪡 discover traditional crafting techniques
🐑 explore locally sourced island wool
🌿 take home a handcrafted piece inspired by Rathlin’s landscape
Part of an overnight craft package (7-8 Aug).
Book now: bit.ly/45fJCDf
🪡 discover traditional crafting techniques
🐑 explore locally sourced island wool
🌿 take home a handcrafted piece inspired by Rathlin’s landscape
Part of an overnight craft package (7-8 Aug).
Book now: bit.ly/45fJCDf
Watch S McConnell & Sons shape the Stone Strategies prototype, inspired by Rathlin's traditional dry stone walls.
The modular blocks are designed for reuse, providing a sustainable alternative to concrete.
25 July | Manor House, Rathlin | bit.ly/3TVgKKa
FII Fellowship: QUB, S McConnell & Sons.
The modular blocks are designed for reuse, providing a sustainable alternative to concrete.
25 July | Manor House, Rathlin | bit.ly/3TVgKKa
FII Fellowship: QUB, S McConnell & Sons.
July 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Watch S McConnell & Sons shape the Stone Strategies prototype, inspired by Rathlin's traditional dry stone walls.
The modular blocks are designed for reuse, providing a sustainable alternative to concrete.
25 July | Manor House, Rathlin | bit.ly/3TVgKKa
FII Fellowship: QUB, S McConnell & Sons.
The modular blocks are designed for reuse, providing a sustainable alternative to concrete.
25 July | Manor House, Rathlin | bit.ly/3TVgKKa
FII Fellowship: QUB, S McConnell & Sons.
Calling all crafters, makers, and curious creatives!
Join us on Rathlin, 7–8 August, for an overnight experience that celebrates the island's craft culture, creative spirit and stunning landscapes.
🔔 Book now: bit.ly/3U2fdSv
@ulsteruni.bsky.social | @rspb.bsky.social | LIFERaft | Craft NI
Join us on Rathlin, 7–8 August, for an overnight experience that celebrates the island's craft culture, creative spirit and stunning landscapes.
🔔 Book now: bit.ly/3U2fdSv
@ulsteruni.bsky.social | @rspb.bsky.social | LIFERaft | Craft NI
July 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Calling all crafters, makers, and curious creatives!
Join us on Rathlin, 7–8 August, for an overnight experience that celebrates the island's craft culture, creative spirit and stunning landscapes.
🔔 Book now: bit.ly/3U2fdSv
@ulsteruni.bsky.social | @rspb.bsky.social | LIFERaft | Craft NI
Join us on Rathlin, 7–8 August, for an overnight experience that celebrates the island's craft culture, creative spirit and stunning landscapes.
🔔 Book now: bit.ly/3U2fdSv
@ulsteruni.bsky.social | @rspb.bsky.social | LIFERaft | Craft NI
Join us on Rathlin for a special event exploring how local stone can be reimagined in modern sustainable construction.
Part of the Future Island-Island Design Fellowship led by Rachel Delargy, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons Stone.
Register: bit.ly/3TVgKKa
Part of the Future Island-Island Design Fellowship led by Rachel Delargy, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons Stone.
Register: bit.ly/3TVgKKa
July 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Join us on Rathlin for a special event exploring how local stone can be reimagined in modern sustainable construction.
Part of the Future Island-Island Design Fellowship led by Rachel Delargy, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons Stone.
Register: bit.ly/3TVgKKa
Part of the Future Island-Island Design Fellowship led by Rachel Delargy, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, in collaboration with S McConnell & Sons Stone.
Register: bit.ly/3TVgKKa
Say hello to the creative minds behind the bold ideas at DesignLink!
These early-stage designers, thinkers and creators teamed up with NI businesses to co-design responses to real-world challenges, bringing new eyes and energy to every brief.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social
These early-stage designers, thinkers and creators teamed up with NI businesses to co-design responses to real-world challenges, bringing new eyes and energy to every brief.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Say hello to the creative minds behind the bold ideas at DesignLink!
These early-stage designers, thinkers and creators teamed up with NI businesses to co-design responses to real-world challenges, bringing new eyes and energy to every brief.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social
These early-stage designers, thinkers and creators teamed up with NI businesses to co-design responses to real-world challenges, bringing new eyes and energy to every brief.
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social
Fresh Thinking. Collaboration. Real-World Solutions.
DesignLink gave emerging creatives industry insight, and businesses access to ideas, perspectives and talent.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who participated for your time, energy, and talent.
DesignLink gave emerging creatives industry insight, and businesses access to ideas, perspectives and talent.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who participated for your time, energy, and talent.
June 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Fresh Thinking. Collaboration. Real-World Solutions.
DesignLink gave emerging creatives industry insight, and businesses access to ideas, perspectives and talent.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who participated for your time, energy, and talent.
DesignLink gave emerging creatives industry insight, and businesses access to ideas, perspectives and talent.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who participated for your time, energy, and talent.
DesignLink – 3 days of Innovation, Ideas & Impact
11 businesses & 23 Design Guilds teamed up to co-design responses to live business challenges. From architects & textile creatives to game & graphic designers, the event showed the power of cross-disciplinary creativity for innovative solutions.
11 businesses & 23 Design Guilds teamed up to co-design responses to live business challenges. From architects & textile creatives to game & graphic designers, the event showed the power of cross-disciplinary creativity for innovative solutions.
June 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
DesignLink – 3 days of Innovation, Ideas & Impact
11 businesses & 23 Design Guilds teamed up to co-design responses to live business challenges. From architects & textile creatives to game & graphic designers, the event showed the power of cross-disciplinary creativity for innovative solutions.
11 businesses & 23 Design Guilds teamed up to co-design responses to live business challenges. From architects & textile creatives to game & graphic designers, the event showed the power of cross-disciplinary creativity for innovative solutions.
💡 DesignLink - Who's behind the briefs?
Tomorrow, we’re teaming up with 11 forward-thinking NI businesses and individuals in a three-day design sprint, with each presenting a live design challenge to our 23 Design Guilds.
Looking forward to the collaboration ahead!
#Design #NIBusiness
Tomorrow, we’re teaming up with 11 forward-thinking NI businesses and individuals in a three-day design sprint, with each presenting a live design challenge to our 23 Design Guilds.
Looking forward to the collaboration ahead!
#Design #NIBusiness
June 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
💡 DesignLink - Who's behind the briefs?
Tomorrow, we’re teaming up with 11 forward-thinking NI businesses and individuals in a three-day design sprint, with each presenting a live design challenge to our 23 Design Guilds.
Looking forward to the collaboration ahead!
#Design #NIBusiness
Tomorrow, we’re teaming up with 11 forward-thinking NI businesses and individuals in a three-day design sprint, with each presenting a live design challenge to our 23 Design Guilds.
Looking forward to the collaboration ahead!
#Design #NIBusiness
We're bringing together 11 NI businesses & 23 Design Guilds to tackle real-world challenges through innovative thinking.
This 3-day design sprint connects creatives with businesses to unlock fresh solutions in sustainability & build a more interconnected design ecosystem in Northern Ireland.
This 3-day design sprint connects creatives with businesses to unlock fresh solutions in sustainability & build a more interconnected design ecosystem in Northern Ireland.
June 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We're bringing together 11 NI businesses & 23 Design Guilds to tackle real-world challenges through innovative thinking.
This 3-day design sprint connects creatives with businesses to unlock fresh solutions in sustainability & build a more interconnected design ecosystem in Northern Ireland.
This 3-day design sprint connects creatives with businesses to unlock fresh solutions in sustainability & build a more interconnected design ecosystem in Northern Ireland.
Prioritising feelings over explanations, the session provided space to reflect on the deep connections between the health of the planet and our own well-being.
#RathlinSoundFestival #Solastalgia
#RathlinSoundFestival #Solastalgia
June 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Prioritising feelings over explanations, the session provided space to reflect on the deep connections between the health of the planet and our own well-being.
#RathlinSoundFestival #Solastalgia
#RathlinSoundFestival #Solastalgia
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Solastalgia event as part of the #RathlinSoundFestival.
Together, we slowed down and connected with Rathlin’s landscape before using natural materials like seaweed and shells to create expressive artworks at the seafront. 🐚
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@ulsteruni.bsky.social
Together, we slowed down and connected with Rathlin’s landscape before using natural materials like seaweed and shells to create expressive artworks at the seafront. 🐚
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@ulsteruni.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Solastalgia event as part of the #RathlinSoundFestival.
Together, we slowed down and connected with Rathlin’s landscape before using natural materials like seaweed and shells to create expressive artworks at the seafront. 🐚
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@ulsteruni.bsky.social
Together, we slowed down and connected with Rathlin’s landscape before using natural materials like seaweed and shells to create expressive artworks at the seafront. 🐚
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@ulsteruni.bsky.social
Graphic Design students from the Belfast School of Art presented their project work on Rathlin Island to over 100 local design professionals, as well as international design leaders Brian Collins and Mary Doherty, during the Rapid Agency x BSOA event in Belfast.
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Graphic Design students from the Belfast School of Art presented their project work on Rathlin Island to over 100 local design professionals, as well as international design leaders Brian Collins and Mary Doherty, during the Rapid Agency x BSOA event in Belfast.
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
What's really inside your old appliances?
Come along to see us take apart a washing machine & uncover the surprising potential of e-waste.
From wind turbines to bug hotels, we’ll explore how mechanical and electrical engineering can breathe new life into discarded objects.
#RathlinSoundFestival
Come along to see us take apart a washing machine & uncover the surprising potential of e-waste.
From wind turbines to bug hotels, we’ll explore how mechanical and electrical engineering can breathe new life into discarded objects.
#RathlinSoundFestival
May 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What's really inside your old appliances?
Come along to see us take apart a washing machine & uncover the surprising potential of e-waste.
From wind turbines to bug hotels, we’ll explore how mechanical and electrical engineering can breathe new life into discarded objects.
#RathlinSoundFestival
Come along to see us take apart a washing machine & uncover the surprising potential of e-waste.
From wind turbines to bug hotels, we’ll explore how mechanical and electrical engineering can breathe new life into discarded objects.
#RathlinSoundFestival
Join us to discover how Rathlin’s own wool is being reimagined to celebrate the island’s rich fishing and maritime traditions.
This interactive show-and-tell features creative work from @ulsteruni.bsky.social students, crafted from Rathlin wool.
#RathlinSoundFestival
This interactive show-and-tell features creative work from @ulsteruni.bsky.social students, crafted from Rathlin wool.
#RathlinSoundFestival
May 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Join us to discover how Rathlin’s own wool is being reimagined to celebrate the island’s rich fishing and maritime traditions.
This interactive show-and-tell features creative work from @ulsteruni.bsky.social students, crafted from Rathlin wool.
#RathlinSoundFestival
This interactive show-and-tell features creative work from @ulsteruni.bsky.social students, crafted from Rathlin wool.
#RathlinSoundFestival