Co-Create PhD recipient announced

Create is delighted to announce Lyónn Wolf as the successful recipient of the Co-Create PhD in Socially Engaged Art and Counter-Narratives, offered in partnership with the National College of Art and Design (NCAD).

Lyónn Wolf is an artist and writer currently engaged with de-productive trans and class poetics. His work unfolds a desire for structures of being away from the logics of reproductive colonial time towards the collective reimagining of political futures centred on pleasure and interdependence for queer, trans and crip social bodies. Lyónn aims to draw from queer and feminist narrative critiques through his PhD research, engaging the world building tools of radical futurism and trans theory, to collectively disrupt the current political paradigm. Lyónn will be supervised by Dominic Thorpe, Assistant Lecturer in Sculpture and Expanded Practice at NCAD and Emma Campbell, Lecturer in Photography at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.

Jennifer Fitzgibbon, Create’s Research and Learning Manager says;

“We are delighted to welcome Lyónn and look forward to supporting his research as a Co-Create partner with access to our Research and Learning programme activities and our newly developed Reading Room and Archive. As a national resource organisation for Socially Engaged and Collaborative Arts, we are delighted to be part of this ambitious and timely all-island research initiative over the next four years.”

About Co-Create

Co-Create Ireland: Art and Design Research Network for Inclusive Futures (Co-Create) is a four-year, all-island research initiative that brings together art and design with diverse communities to address some of the most pressing challenges facing society — from public services and healthcare to climate action and cultural heritage.

Supported by the North-South Research Programme under the Government of Ireland’s Shared Island Fund, the project establishes a cross-border network of researchers, cultural institutions, community organisations, public bodies and industry partners, united by a shared belief that art and design research methodologies can drive meaningful, citizen-centred societal transformation. The project is co-led by the National College of Art & Design (NCAD) and the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, in consortium with the University of Limerick and Atlantic Technological University. Together with 24 external partners across the island of Ireland, Co-Create applies methodologies central to art and design research — co-creation, ideation, participation and commoning and others — to foreground citizen voices and develop new approaches to shared challenges.

Learn more at https://co-createireland.com/