Gabriela Avram opened the event with a short introduction of the ideas behind the project, a review of what happened at Connected Limerick 2010, and an agenda for the 2011 event.

The first part of the event included a series of short talks (5min).
This is the list of speakers we had for the afternoon:

The second part of the event was dedicated to a discussion of the themes included in the presentations.

The event was organised as part of the Design Week 2011 by the Limerick chapter of the IxDA.

Shane McAllister looked at how our individual trajectories around the city are reflected in social media through our mobile devices:

Here are the slides Shane used in his presentation:

Bernard Goldbach gave a condensed presentation of the history of the Limerick Open Coffee Club:

and this is the selected material he used in the presentation:

And you can also visit Bernie’s OpenCoffee photo set on Flickr!

Mikael Fernstrom spoke about his 12 Stations project that took place in Limerick on World Listening Day:

Lou Dennehy spoke about the LITisOUT, the Limerick Institute of Technology’s LGBT society and their use of digital resources and social media

Here are Lou’s slides:

Miriam Lohan, creative artist and social entrepreneur, spoke about a number of projects related to Limerick she participated in and presented her own project to organise a skills directory for encouraging skills barter in the Limerick area.

Here’s a recording of her talk:

Bock The Robber spoke about the Bock Collective, the creative process behind their site and the interaction with the audience:

Here are the slides used for the presentation:

and here’s an audio recording of the talk:

Dr.Luigina Ciolfi presented her preliminary observations from an ongoing study of foursquare use in Limerick.
For our readers who are not familiar with foursquare, you can read more about it on Wikipedia.

This is an audio recording of her talk:

And these are the slides used in the presentation:

Sharon Slater is a Limerick-based blogger, who has a passion for discovering and sharing local historical information. Her blog is titled “Limerick’s Life”, and her motto is “Read…Tell…Remember…”

Dominique Bouchard, curator of Education and Access at the Hunt Museum, speaks about the physical digital in the Hunt Museum and how we usually look at digital content as a replica of the physical world.

“The Art of Steampunk” was a temporary exhibition hosted by the Hunt Museum between 11th October 2011 and 10th January 2012.