BOUNCE X A Playful City – Case Study
Last year, eleven designers, artists, urban researchers, and community practitioners came together as BOUNCE Challengers to take on one of Dublin's most layered, contradictory, and quietly fascinating streets. Not to fix it. Not to rebrand it. But to understand it.
This BOUNCE Challenge was led by partner agency A Playful City. Through the open call the following participants were selected; Karl Toomey, Joanne Byrne, Aoife Flynn, Treasa Burns, Luciano Jacob, Areeb Tariq, Laura Merrigan, Fergus Craddock, TJ Ryan, Áine Power, Sean O'Beachain.
They interviewed 113 community members. They mapped the tensions between the street's independent spirit and its civic friction points. They applied behavioural research frameworks, ran participatory workshops, and asked, with genuine curiosity, whose city is this, and who gets to shape it?
The proposals that came out of that process, Kerb Culture, Dirty Experiments, Street Stories, Binfluencers, a Circular Economy Charter, weren't invented at a desk. They grew from months of listening. The case study documents all of it: the methodology, the research findings, the interventions, and the public showcase where the city told us whether we'd heard them right.
