
SMARTlab Skelligs Team
Our Story
Our team is made up of a small Core Team, PhD Students, local faculty and a team of content developers, who work with us to develop and delivery programmes, that align to the skills and competencies, required for the 21st century and the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) world. The VUCA world requires a way of thinking and approaching solutions to problems in dynamic creative and systemic ways and linking critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication to utilise tried and tested in relevant contemporary and innovative ways.
Our approach - place-based STEAM and placemaking, uses a bespoke methodology, integrating the permaCultural resilience praxis, design thinking, project-based learning and the Sustainable Development Goals and Earth Charter to consider and develop eco-psycho-social interventions that engage with the WHY (purpose), HOW (output) and WHAT (impact, outcome) of any action, while embedding social, environmental and economic justice within a whole ecostystem approach.
Meet The Team

Dr. Anita McKeown, FRSA, FIMP
Director, SMARTlab Skelligs
MCSS Programme Co-Lead

Rebecca White
MCSS Programme Co-Lead
