BOUNCE X ETBI Universal Design Challenge
Welcoming Lorraine and Eimear to the BOUNCE X ETBI Universal Design Challenge
We’re delighted to welcome Lorraine Murphy and Eimear Carragher as challengers in the BOUNCE × ETBI Universal Design Challenge — a 12-week collaborative programme exploring how Universal Design can be embedded in everyday Further Education and Training practice.
Both bring rich creative and facilitation experience to the programme.
Lorraine Murphy, a Design Thinking facilitator and trainer, works with organisations and teams to unlock creativity and build confidence in human-centred problem solving. Her work centres on experiential learning environments that help people develop the mindsets and tools needed to innovate collaboratively.
Eimear Carragher is a Digital Media and Design educator whose practice blends industry experience with a teaching approach grounded in creativity, visual storytelling, and hands-on exploration. She is passionate about helping learners develop confidence as makers while discovering their own creative voice.
Together, they now join a multidisciplinary group of ETBI practitioners embarking on a shared challenge: to explore how Universal Design principles can shape systems, workflows, and learning experiences across the FET landscape. The ETBI promote the development of education, training and youth work in Ireland, and more imformation on the services they provide can be found here.
The Challenge
The BOUNCE × ETBI Universal Design Challenge creates a structured space for practitioners to explore real organisational questions, test ideas, and learn through experimentation.
Over 12 weeks, participants will work through a hybrid series of workshops and collaborative sessions where they:
- examine real barriers and opportunities in their contexts
- challenge assumptions about accessibility and inclusion
- develop and prototype ideas
- share insights with peers and a wider community
- The value lies not in polished outcomes, but in the learning generated through the process.
Participatory Co-Design
At the heart of the programme is the BOUNCE Challenge methodology, a participatory co-design model designed to help organisations explore complex problems collectively.
Rather than positioning participants as recipients of training, BOUNCE treats them as co-designers of change. Practitioners bring their lived experience of systems and services, and through structured facilitation they work together to surface insights, test assumptions, and generate new possibilities.
The process moves through stages of discovery, reframing, ideation and prototyping, combining design thinking tools with collaborative learning practices. Along the way, participants build shared language, confidence and capability around Universal Design while developing ideas that can spark longer-term change.
Just as importantly, the programme fosters a community of practice: a network of practitioners learning from each other’s perspectives and experimenting together in a safe, exploratory environment. And collaboration, from colleagues in the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design.
Looking Ahead
We’re excited to see where Lorraine and Eimear’s curiosity, creativity and collaborative spirit will take the challenge and the participants over the coming weeks.
As the programme unfolds, we’ll be sharing reflections, provocations and insights from the teams on social, highlighting not just the ideas that emerge, but the learning that happens along the way.
About Lorraine Murphy
Lorraine Murphy (Design Thinkers Hub) is a Design Thinking Facilitator and Trainer who designs and delivers experiential workshops that spark curiosity, unlock creativity, and build the confidence to innovate. She works with individuals, teams, and organisations, to develop the mindsets and skills needed for human-centred problem-solving, collaboration, and idea generation. Lorraine champions the idea that creativity is not the preserve of the few but a universal capacity that flourishes when given the right frameworks and practices. She believes thereal question is not ‘Are you creative?’ but ‘Do you have the tools to be creative?’
About Eimear Carragher
Eimear is aDigital Media & Design Educator with a strong foundation in animation, visual storytelling, and creative production. Her work blends over a decade of industry experience with a teaching style rooted in creativity, curiosity, and hands‑on learning. In her practice, Eimear focuses on building students’ confidence as makers and thinkers—helping them understand not only how to use tools, but how to craft meaningful, original work.
She designs learning environments that encourage exploration, problem‑solving, and the development of each learner’s unique creative voice. Outside the classroom, Eimear continues to expand her own practice, experimenting with new mediums and staying attuned to how digital stories evolve in an ever‑changing creative landscape. She is passionate about the power of creativity to open doors, spark ideas, and give people a voice.
