Journal Updates

October 7, 2026

Digital Storytelling and Natural Fibres

Future Island-Island has developed work around Rathlin wool and natural fibres, including circular design practice and the relationships between supply...
October 7, 2026

Making Heritage Sites & Biodiverse Environments Accessible through Immersive Technologies (VR, AR, XR)

Future Island-Island has generated research relating to heritage sites and biodiverse environments. This fellowship will explore how immersive technologies can...
October 7, 2026

Telling the Story of Rathlin East

Future Island-Island has already gathered oral history, social history and multimedia material relating to Rathlin Island East Lighthouse. The Fellow...
October 7, 2026

A Manifesto for Circular Plastic Management

Future Island-Island's Waste Free Island concept and Beach Clean 2.0 work provides a basis for wider discussion about circular plastic...
October 7, 2026

Storytelling for Circular Plastic and Beach Clean 2.0

Beach Clean 2.0 is exploring marine plastics and their movement from beach waste into items of use. This fellowship would...
June 25, 2026

Bernat Klein Foundation Symposium

The Bernat Klein Foundation Symposium, The Colour of Everyday, brings together designers, researchers, industry, makers, students and island communities to...
June 19, 2026

Young People Lead the Way at Imaginarium Dissemination Event

At a recent gathering at Portrush Youth Centre, young people, researchers, youth workers and policymakers came together to celebrate the...
May 26, 2026

Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival

On a bright sunny Bank Holiday Monday, Dr Susann Power and I travelled over from Ballycastle across calm waters to...
May 21, 2026

Hiring: Project Coordinator

Could you help shape the next chapter of the East Light on Rathlin Island? 📍 Hybrid | Rathlin Island &...
May 21, 2026

Late Night Museum – Fashionably Late!

A Wonderful Evening at Late Night Museum – Fashionably Late!
March 28, 2026

European Wool Day 2026: Building Value for Wool

Future Island-Island was proud to support and participate in European Wool Day 2026 in Tralee, Co. Kerry. This event brought...
February 22, 2026

Becoming a Human Book: Reflections From Rathlin Island’s Human Library

Sometimes, as academics, our work takes us into unexpected spaces, both intellectually and geographically. One such moment arrived when I...
February 9, 2026

Festival of Tomorrow, Swindon

Future Island-Island’s Architects of Change project recently headed to Swindon to take part in the Festival of Tomorrow Schools Programme...
January 2, 2026

The beach: a liminal space between hope and despair

The beach holds a special place in my heart. Gazing over the sea, listening to the sound of the breaking...