Joining the panel:
🔹Chair: Barry Phipps, Fellow, ClimaTraces; Dir, BBCW
🔹Stephen Bennett, Policy Lab
🔹Natasha Tanjutco, Co-founder & Creative Dir, TAYO
🔹James Wylie, V&A Dundee
🔹Geke van Dijk, Strategy Dir, Stby

Designing with the living world for health, community, & creative futures. 🌍

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.

💡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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📸 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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✨ 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.

🌱Over the past year, Rathlin Creative Fellow Ann, in collaboration with artist Vanya and naturalist Hazel Watson, has been exploring fungi; how they interact, their role in breaking down plastic waste (mycoremediation) and the ethics surrounding these processes.

📍Drop by to learn more!

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Your "Making it on Rathlin" package includes:
✅ Overnight stay at the Manor House
✅ Wool workshop with Rathlin Wool Group
✅ Photography session with award-winning local photographer Johnny Mitchell
✅Visits to key sites & a boat tour of the cliffs & coastline.

🔔 Book now: bit.ly/3U2fdSv

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.