A Playful City, DLRCoCo + IADT Collaborate: Love Our Place
Love Our Place
A Playful City, stakeholder engagement specialist, in collaboration with Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council (DLRCoCo) and IADT, is leading a new community engagement project focused on sections of the active travel route currently being developed along Kill Avenue. This community placemaking project is titled ‘Love Our Place’.
The County Council have previously partnered with A Playful City on the successful ‘Love Our Laneways’ project in Sallynoggin, completed in early 2025.
The Love Our Place project is focused on sections of the active travel route currently being developed along Kill Avenue as part of the ongoing Dún Laoghaire Central Active Travel project, currently under construction. This initiative will bring fresh energy to three important public spaces along the route, making them more vibrant, welcoming, and community friendly.
The engagement project is running until December 2025, and aims to meaningfully engage local community and key stakeholders to co-create design and way-finding interventions that improve the experience, accessibility and usability of the route. The engagement project will focus on three key areas:
- The laneway off Kill Avenue that leads onto St Patrick’s Terrace
- Rose Park opposite IADT
- The pavement area at Bakers Corner
Through local partnerships, participatory workshops and outreach activities, A Playful City will gather insights and test ideas that will help shape playful and community-driven design interventions in these spaces. They will begin by outreaching to local residents and stakeholders and have confirmed partnerships with various programmes at IADT and with local schools.
Take Part
IADT Students, Staff and members of the public are invited to send feedback by partaking in an Online Survey HERE.
How A Playful City Works
At A Playful City, we use creative, inclusive approaches to engage communities in reimagining their public spaces. The feedback we collect through these methods helps us build a community-led design brief—a resource that supports urban planners and designers in co-creating spaces with, not just for, local people. Over the coming weeks, we’ll share collated community feedback with various courses at IADT. This will be an important foundation to help shape the identity and direction of students’ design process for the project.
More information can be found on Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council (DLRCoCo) website HERE.