Public CoLab 2023
Public Space/Infrastructure
Research Project, Student
Belfast, 2023
Public Colab 2023 was an intensive week long research project completed by first year Architecture Bsc and M.Arch students in Queen’s University Belfast. Aimed at designing public spaces along the river Lagan in Belfast the project was undertaken in partnership with Belfast City Council, Climate NI, Lagan Valley Regional Park, Maritime Belfast, Save our Lagan, environmental and sustainability experts from QUB and the Department for Infrastructure
In teams students were assigned one of eleven sections of the river Lagan to develop. Additionally they were assigned an animal and human user to design for. My team took charge of area 2 along Queen’s Quay, the second most northerly site. We were asked to consider butterflies and people with limited mobility in our proposal. We proposed “a strategic combination of urban design interventions including parks, aquaponics and accessible planting” centred around a ‘butterfly tunnel’ or habitat running across the Lagan Weir pedestrian bridge.
Our team included Maya Marron, Siobhán Coakley, Alexis Payot, Natalie Anderson, Diviya Kaarthick Ravichandran, Suman Miah, Philipa Koh, Yangtao Jiang, Annabeth Tzong Lim and Evonne Alexander alongside myself.
Collaborators
The students, teachers and external parties that influenced this work, in no particular order;
Dr Nuala Flood and Queen’s University Belfast
(Students) Daisy Adams, Dhanish Ahmed, Evonne Alexander, Maram Alissa, Gabriella Amanda, Max Anderson, Natalie Anderson, Ian Bagasala, Molly Baker, Jordan Barrow, Megan Batty, Aditi A.Benke, Magdalena Bepierszcz, Daniel Bittles, Ioanna Boumpalou, Matthew Brown, Maria Elena Cariaga, Rebecca Carrothers, Shreya Chhajer, Sharon Chungath, Siobhán Coakley, Piers Collins, Maria Commons, Leo Conway, Sophia Costa Kloeckner, Katelyn Cumiskey, Grace Davis, Ella Doherty, Niamh Donnelly, Jessica Jayne Dorrian, Ashvin Elango, Mariah Faherty, Emma Fitzpatrick, Zoe Fleming, Lauren Forte, Oileán Galligan, Michaela Galvin, Jessica Garrett, Shivani A. Gite, Lucy Glass, Vanusa Gomes Te, Nadine Graham-Mulgrew, Aimee Grant, Naomi Gray, Olivia Greensmith, Darragh Hamilton, Alex Howard Smith, Emily Ireland, Hannah Jackson, Yedam Jeon, Yangtao Jiang, Emilie Jones, Alex Judd, Rishi Kamble, Emma Kane, Denise Keaney, Philip Kennedy, Leng Ket Yang, Philippa Koh, Natal Koulaylat, Peter Lawson, Jake Lebel, Edward Lee, Hok Chi Leung, Annabeth Tzong Lim, Samuel Chin Wei Lo, Megan Lowry, Saud Makki, Maya Marron, Sasha Martin, Eleanor Mc Quaid, Aoife McAvoy, Kerry McCabe, Rory McCormack, Reece McGeoghegan, Fiona McGrath, Ellen McKeag, Suman Miah, Geethu Mohandas, Natalia Mokras, Lucy Monteith, Deedhiti Mukherjee, Faye Murphy, Micheal Murphy, Rachel Murphy, Syed M. Naqvi, Jack Nolan, Molly O’Beirne, Erin O’Connor, Aoife O’Neill, Ciara Page, Alex Peacock, Oliver Petch, Alice Poole, Ethan Potter, D. Kaarthick Ravichandran, Ashish K. Salimon, William Luca Santoso, Lin Shan Ying, Anna Shaw, Iznay Shuja, Shuyu Si, Trinity Stevenson, Caitlin Suribas, Nicole Thompson, Scott Wilson, Low Chuan Yin Amelia, Min-Hui Yu and Zhouzi Zhou.
(Other parties) Dr Callie Persic (Belfast City Council), Dr Mura Quigley (Belfast City Council), Dr Jane McCullough (Climate NI), Dr Andy Bridge (Lagan Valley Regional Park), Judith Webb (Maritime Belfast), Dr Colin Shaw (Save Our Lagan), Prof. Mark Emmerson and Prof. Sue-Ann Harding (Queen’s University), Caoimhe O'Neill and Liam Mularkey (Department for Infrastructure)
