The document describes various tourism experiences, businesses, and projects in Dublin and other cities that tell stories or allow people to share experiences. It includes examples like walking tours run by a Dublin historian, bike and Segway tours for tourists, projects encouraging citywide reading of the same book, and social media sites that allow people to share locations and reviews.

1. Designing Dublin 2.0 Love the City 100 Examples Shane Waring 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

2. Motorised Tours Various, Launched 2010 www.glidetours.ie These provide tours for tourists on Segways (those self-balancing 2-wheel 'vehicles'). www.gocartours.com These are small GPS-navigated vehicles which tourists can take and drive around themselves (while the vehicle speaks to them). 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

3. Dublin Streets Dublin, n/a http://dublinstreets.blogspot.com/ Dublin Street Style. Stuff we like. On the Streets of Dublin. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

4. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City Broadsheet.ie, Irish, N/A www.broadsheet.ie Updated as it happens, every 15 minutes, this is a news blog. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

5. Storyful Ireland/Worldwide Launched 2010 www.storyful.com Storyful was founded by journalists who wanted to curate the real-time web. In other words, separate the useful news from the river of noise flowing through channels like Twitter and YouTube. We set out to discover the most authentic sources on the big stories. We wanted to find the smartest conversations about world events. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

6. Pat Liddy Tours Dublin http://www.walkingtours.ie/ Pat Liddy is a well-known Dublin historian, author and artist who has developed a unique walking tour service for Dublin. Covering the inner city and, by advance request, the coastal villages, waterways, hills and intriguing suburbs, the tours are compiled by Pat Liddy himself based on his years of experience, historical research and the collection of anecdotal and legendary stories of Ireland's Capital City : "All my life I have been an enthusiast of Dublin and now I would love to share with you the stories, the architecture, the history, the winding back streets, the beautiful parks, the hidden gems, the peals of medieval bells and so much more in this unique city". 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

7. Dublin 1 City 1 Book Dublin Every year http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/ 2010 is the fifth year of the Dublin: One City, One Book project, designed to encourage everyone in the city to read the same book during the month of April each year. The project promotes reading in a city which boasts one of the world’s greatest literary heritages including four Nobel Laureates and was a major element of Dublin's submission to become a UNESCO City of Literature. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

8. Ingenious Ireland App Dublin Launched 2010 www.ingeniousireland.ie Audio tours are a great new way to take a guided walk. They’re packed with information and you get top quality commentary every time. They are great value, and really convenient. No waiting around for some tour company’s schedule — you decide when to start, and when to stop for coffee, and there are no annoying questions or hold-ups. Plus, they’re much cheaper than a conventional guided tour. Just pop one of our podcast tours in your pocket, press play, and start exploring. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

9. 4Square Worldwide n/a http://foursquare.com Does 4Square tell the story of the users of a City? Foursquare is a mobile application that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. It is a friend-finder, a social city guide and a game that challenges users to experience new things, and rewards them for doing so. Foursquare lets users "check in" to a place when they're there, tell friends where they are and track the history of where they've been and who they've been there with. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

10. TED Worldwide http://www.ted.com Do you have an idea of how the world should be? Tell your story. TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker "ideas worth spreading," talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world's most inspiring voices. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

11. Hotel Ballymun Ballymun, Dublin 2007 http://www.hotelballymun.com/ Guests at Hotel Ballymun were able to appreciate the spectacular views over Dublin, just weeks before these views ceased to exist. In addition to the nine individually designed, single and double bedrooms there was a garden room, a tv lounge, communal kitchen, reception area, breakfast and seating area, as well as an intimate conference and events centre. The rooms were furnished with one-off pieces, customised and remodelled from existing furniture, which were designed and made by people from the Ballymun area, during a two month series of workshops with Irish design duo Sticks and recent RCA graduate Jonathan Legge. A diverse programme of cultural and social events took place in the Hotel. Talks, live art and music performances took place at the Hotel throughout the day and in the evenings. There was also a chance for the general public to take the lift up to view Hotel Ballymun. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

12. Irish Photographic Archive Dublin, Ireland A visual story of our past. (Pictured is 'The Irish House' formerly on the site of the current Dublin City Council Civic Offices.) 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

13. Soap Box Temple Bar, Dublin n/a Tell people what you really think. They can't interrupt – you're on the soap box! 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

14. Postbox in Dame Ln, Dublin N/A This postbox changes its request from time to time. It asks the people of Dublin to tell their story...their confessions, their visions of the future, their hopes, their desires. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

15. The Cobblestones Dublin Stories of Dublin and Ireland...sung from the bottom of the heart, at the top of the voice. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

16. Tales of Medieval Dublin Dublin 2010 http://www.fmd.ie/ With their events and lectures, Friends of Medieval Dublin connect us to our past and tell the story of a Dublin now largely forgotten. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

17. Abandoned Ireland Ireland www.AbandonedIreland.com So what's this Abandoned Ireland thing all about ?? Abandoned Ireland is a personal project started in June 2008 by Tarquin Blake. Record it. Document it. Before it’s gone These places are left falling to ruin. Nobody seems to care. I'm protecting our heritage. TOUCH NOTHING. TAKE NOTHING. LEAVE ONLY FOOTSTEPS 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

18. Drunks, Pubs The Early Hours They'll tell you everything you didn't want to know. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

19. Newspapers, Worldwide, N/A The Story of our lives...documented with opinions. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

20. Comedians Worldwide, N/A Comedians often voice the thoughts of the people – that's why we laugh...we identify something of ourselves or our lives in what they say. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

21. Fumbally Exchange / The Coombe Crucible, Dublin, Launched 2010 http://www.fumbally.com/fumbally-exchange.pdf 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

22. Book Crossing, Worldwide N/A http://www.bookcrossing.com/ BookCrossing is many things. Most of all, it's the act of giving a book a unique identity, thus giving its reader the ability to stay connected and watch it pass through the hands of people all over the world. There are currently 887,661 members of BookCrossing, and together we have registered 6,599,364 books. our mission to connect people through books how we do it our free online archival and tracking system allows users to connect with other readers, journal and review literature, give their books lives and track their journeys. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

23. LEGO Serious Play, Ireland. http://www.roryoconnor.ie/http:/www.roryoconnor.ie/tag/lego-serious-play The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is an amazing and very powerful method for unlocking the full potential of any organisation. It helps people engage with and develop innovative solutions to complex issues. In short, it is a method is based in robust set of theories, predominantly from these domains: Strategy, organisational behaviour, systems thinking and importantly learning and development. It is deeply anchored in the beliefs that • The solution is in the system • Everyone goes to work to do well and CAN do well • We live in a dynamic and unpredictable world 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

24. Irish Landmark Trust, Ireland http://irishlandmark.com/ The Irish Landmark Trust Ltd. was founded in 1992 with a remit to save interesting and unusual 'landmark' properties throughout the whole of Ireland and to re-use them, once restored, as good quality self catering holiday accommodation. At its heart is the principle that the structure iself is of prime importance and any interventions must respect this. Their buildings are varied, from lighthouses, to gatelodges, to tower houses, to school houses, to mews, which - because of their individuality, even eccentricity - are unsuitable as permanent residences. But often in remote and delightful parts of the country, they are ideal retreats for those seeking a short stay in fascinating and sensitively restored buildings. Further, they see themselves as problem solvers. Owners, private and public, with responsibility for important buildings are faced with the dual task of restoring and finding sustainable uses for them. By taking a building on lease we are enabled to restore it, and can sustain it on short-term lettings until the expiry of the lease (typically, 50 years) when the fully restored building reverts to the owner. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

25. Guilt Forgiveness, Worldwide N/A Egs... Carbon Offset Websites Catholic Church Indulgences 'Guilt-forgiveness' programmes are often very good at making money, but usually do no solve the underlying problem. They allow people to act in a way that is often detrimental to the 'commons' but lets them feel OK with it as they are 'forgiven' once they pay for it. The organisers often cite the excuse that the revenue generated will help others. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

26. Green Graveyard Co., Ireland / Worldwide N/A http://www.greencoffinsireland.com/natural-burial.html People sometimes talk about where they would like their final resting place to be. Often they describe a green place with trees, flowers and wildlife in abundance. They describe a beautiful and unspoiled place where their family and friends can visit and be at peace. Conventional Irish Graveyards fall a long way short of these wishes. Gone are the marble headstones and concrete surrounds that are common place in Irish graveyards, replaced instead by a small grave marker and the planting of a native Irish tree. Visitors walk along pathways surrounded by native Irish trees and flowers, spotting wildlife in their newly created habitats. These natural burial grounds are sacred and natural places where people of all faiths and those without any religion will find a beautiful final resting place. Allowing your funeral to be used as a conservation tool will leave a legacy of care and respect for our planet. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

27. The WIR Bank, Switzerland, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank The WIR bank is a not for profit bank. It serves the interest of the clients, not the bank itself. It is a very stable system, not prone to failure as the current banking system is. It remains fully operational even in times of general economic crisis. WIR may have contributed to the remarkable stability of the Swiss economy, as it dampens downturns in the business cycle. One of the remarkable things about it is that it issues its own currency which becomes popular when the Swiss Franc is doing badly, and vice-versa. In that way it avoids the economic peaks and troughs that Ireland has experienced in the past decade. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

28. LPs and Apples, Amsterdam A music shop in Amsterdam sells LPs inside and apples outside. He makes his profit from the apples, but loves the LPs. Some of the more interesting businesses in the world bring their income in through a 'side door'...for example Google (provides all sorts of services, but incomes in through ads...when do you ever think of Google as an advertising company...certainly not your first thought anyway! 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

29. Anti-squatting, Amsterdam N/A It's legal in Amsterdam to squat. Squatting isn't particularly interesting and can often be negative. However it induces 'anti-squatting' whereby the owner of the property let's someone or a group use the space in order to prevent squatting. In return they keep the street alive (no vacant properties), and often are required (as one of their conditions) to actually give something back to the street as the landlord wants the area to get/keep a good name. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

30. Iveagh Trust, Artisan Cottages, Cadburys ‘model village’, Guinnesses. Ireland and UK 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iveagh_Trust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadstone_%28Dublin%29_railway_station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village These were all models of businesses considering the lifestyles of their employees. As your family grew, you moved to a larger house. As your children moved out, you down-sized. It was an early form of affordable housing and rewarded tenants who treated their propery well. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

31. Wad River/Emerald Co-Op, Dublin Completion Due 2011 http://www.wadriver.org/emerald.html A group of people set up the Emerald Co-Op with a view to creating a fully-sustainable housing development and community for themselves. It is onsite and should be completed in the first half of 2011.It will probably be one of the best examples of ecological and sustainable housing in Ireland when finished. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

32. The Village Cloughjordan, Ireland Under Construction http://thevillage.ie/ Similar to the Emerald Housing Co-Op, this was formed by a charity with the aim of developing a sustainable community which would also serve as an example to the remainder of Ireland. Located in North Tipperary, the very large site was designed in three areas – 1/3 for housing, 1/3 for food production, and 1/3 for 'wild' – according to ecological principles. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

33. Floating Alotments, Amsterdam N/A http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/4736389/Allotments-on-canals-to-be-offered-to-public.html In a city with copious amounts of water, it may have been an obvious step to create floating alotments. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

34. Treasure Hunt, Moscow, Russia, Recent Years 'Dozor' is a treasure hunt tha t takes place across Russia every two weeks. It's aimed at adults and much of the idea is the element of speed and danger. For example it takes place at night and many of the clues are hidden under water or in underground tunnels etc. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

35. Peer-to-Peer Tech. n/a n/a Peer-to-peer technologies are about to greatly open up a world of sharing stuff. Sharing books, sharing cars, sharing gramaphones. Perhaps they're on the rise as people are getting used to sharing things online, so it's a natural step to then share them offline. It reduces environmental impacts and costs for the user. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

36. AVEGO Worldwide n/a http://www.avego.com/ Avego is a peer-to-peer carpooling iPhone app. If you're driving somewhere you can offer to share your car (via the app). It shows you who's looking for a lift along your route and puts you together. After your trip you both 'rate' each other (did they turn up on time, were they friendly, etc) and this information is then available for future users. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

37. Velocity Couriers Dublin n/a http://www.velocitycouriers.ie/ Cyclists transporting large packages instead of vehicles. Better for the environment. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

38. Open Radio Ireland n/a http://www.openfm.ie/ Open FM an independent not-for-profit organisation which aims to open the minds of the Dublins' wider community about the LGBT community. OpenFM, the station which is proud to celebrate diversity, will be Ireland's first radio station to investigate the sub-cultures of the gay community. We hopes to use this unique opportunity to reach out and educate Dublins' wider community. We are also going to feature a guide to What's happening during Dublin Pride Week. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

39. Airfield Dublin n/a http://www.airfield.ie/ Airfield is a 35 acre estate with working farm, formal gardens, café and shop situated in Dundrum, Dublin. It is a non profit Charitable Trust set up for educational and recreational purposes. Airfield is a place that reconnects people and nature, it is a place where they can reflect, be replenished and celebrate the fusion of man and nature through the activities of farming and gardening. We aim to nurture a respect and awareness of the natural environment. We offer a range of inspirational, active learning and cultural experiences that grow out of Airfield’s natural resources. We aspire to make Airfield accessible to people of all ages and communities. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

40. Cycle Streets UK n/a http://www.cyclestreets.net/ CycleStreets is a UK-wide cycle journey planner system, which lets you plan routes from A to B by bike. It is designed by cyclists, for cyclists, and caters for the needs of both confident and less confident cyclists. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

41. Streetfeast.ie Ireland Launched 2010 www.streetfeast.ie Street Feast is a day of local lunches across Ireland on 18 July, hosted by you and your neighbours. They can be anywhere really — out on the street, in a local park or in your front garden. There are lots of good reasons to have a Street Feast, but it's really just a great excuse to eat great food, celebrate your local community and meet new people who live near you. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

42. Open Coffee, Worldwide http://opencoffee.ning.com/ The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

43. Title Toronto, Canada 2009 http://www.youngsocialinnovators.ie/ Young Social Innovators' mission is to raise social awareness among 15-18 year olds in Ireland by providing social awareness education through action and platforms for young people and those guiding them, which will result in an enhancement of the personal sense of justice, responsibility and capacity innate to all. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

44. Social Entrepreneurs, Ireland. http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/ Social Entrepreneurs Ireland identifies, invests in, and supports social entrepreneurs and the organisations they launch. They also work with our social entrepreneurs network, our partners and our supporters to promote social entrepreneurship at local, regional and national level throughout the island of Ireland. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

45. Enviropreneur Programme, http://www.perc.org/enviroprog/enviropreneur/index.php PERC's Enviropreneur Institute is an intense, two-week educational experience in Bozeman, Montana, for environmental entrepreneurs who want to have a better understanding of how business and economic principles can be applied to environmental problems. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

46. David Engwicht Australian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Engwicht http://www.lesstraffic.com/ This website is dedicated to helping you and your city tame taffic. It contains programs that have been tested and ideas that push the envelope. Their Passion is to: Build the capacity of communities to be more creative in the way they tackle a broad range of issues...without abdicating all the responsibility to government or other sectors of the community. Assist politicians, decision-makers, city staff and residents to 'think outside the box' when looking for ways to address community issues. Help political leaders to overcome the significant limitations of adversarial forms of politics and public dialogue. Stimulate individuals, communities, decision-makers, and entire cities to reach their fullest creative potential. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

47. Tobin Tax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. The tax is intended to put a penalty on short-term financial round-trip excursions into another currency. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

48. Tidy Towns, Ireland http://www.tidytowns.ie/ The backbone of TidyTowns has always been the National Competition, however, the sprit of TidyTowns has permeated Irish society far deeper than that. Many people today are not even aware that TidyTowns was originally linked to a single competition organised for 37 years by Bord Fáilte, the Irish Tourist Board, and now by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

49. Talk Like A Pirate Day (& Global Warming) http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html International Talk Like A Pirate Day was started as a joke but was later given more weight. To protest against unscientific arguments against global warming being given equal weight in the media, it was shown that as pirates are decreasing, the Earth is getting warmer. Therefore the two must be linked. Having the Pirate Day would encourage pirates to re-emerge and so would solve global warming. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

50. Rita Fagan, St. Michaels Estate, N/A Rita is from a working class family in the Liberties, Dublin and became actively involved in the Trade Union Movement. Rita has a huge passion for social justice and equality issues and has worked tirelessly at bring communities together enabling then to take action and become empowered. Rita believes that the struggle for justice and freedom not only embodies pain but also joy through celebrating our lives and the outcome of the struggle. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

51. The Paddy Games Ireland Launched 2010 http://paddygames.ie/ Paddy Games is an unusual international sports event open to competitors who wish to represent their country in a range of liberating athletic manoeuvres. The common man’s games, Paddy Games founding principle is taking silliness very seriously. While in traditional track events athletes run forwards, in Paddy Games they run backwards, are 3-legged, blindfolded, wear wellington boots, compete with broken legs and even crawl. Recognising that competition and fun are not mutually exclusive, Paddy Games’ mission is to establish a global home for entertainment while running up a sweat. Promoting active laughter, Paddy Games novel track, field, and swimming events, present an alternative sporting vision, inviting people to change the way they look at sport while creating performance art 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

52. Phizzfest Phibsboro, Dublin Launched 2010 http://www.phizzfest.ie/ 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

53. Neighbours Day Worldwide 28 th May http://www.european-neighbours-day.com/ All over Europe, individualism, withdrawal into oneself and loneliness is on the rise. Everywhere social bonds are growing loose. Each resident is invited to make a simple gesture at the same time throughout Europe. To invite your neighbours to share a nice time around a buffet or a luncheon, enhances social cohesion and creates new solidarities. Through this exchange among residents, sharing experiences and good practices, this event gives to citizens the opportunity to interact and to join in the making of Europe, an ever closer and more human European community. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

54. Naked Cycle Race Cork, Ireland Launched 2009 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/naked-cyclists-have-eyes-popping-in-cork-14881116.html Naked cycle races are a worldwide movement to draw attention to the vulnerability of cyclists. Cyclists cycle naked through a town or city and naturally enough draw great attention and media coverage. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

55. Re-imagining Civic Space, Dublin 2009 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2009/1022/1224257215580.html 15 local kids were involved in designing a temporary play space for a weekend. The children, aged six to 11, spent a week visiting parks and playgrounds and wanted something completely different. Hills were mentioned, and tunnels, as well as a more traditional sandpit. Some also wanted a hiding place until a six-year-old girl pointed out that “you can’t do that because everyone would know where it is”. “ How do you make hills out of wood?” he asked, scratching his head. But they did, and the kids helped to assemble it all last Saturday – much to the annoyance of a small number of neighbours who didn’t approve. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

56. TASC Ireland n/a http://www.tascnet.ie/ TASC is an independent think-tank dedicated to combating Ireland’s high level of economic inequality and ensuring that public policy has equality at its core. Economic inequality is not confined to income inequality, but exists across many areas of the economy - for example, asset ownership, wealth, taxation, health, housing and education. Thus, fighting economic inequality is about ensuring that economic interests are rendered subordinate to the common good in areas such as education, health and welfare. It is also about redistributing risk, wealth and power. This, in turn, requires increased accountability and transparency at all levels. The primary focus of TASC’s current work is to identify solutions to the present economic crisis aimed at achieving recovery with equality. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

57. Words on the Wind, Ireland, Started 2009 http://wordsonthewindpoetry.wordpress.com/ In September 2009, a group of women attended a Poetry Workshop taught by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin. Over the course of 10 weeks we shared our writing, our thoughts and our inspiration, under Nuala’s guiding hand. The energy between us was so positive, we decided to continue working together after the course finished. The group includes writers in English and Irish (and on occasion, Welsh!) and we write about everything that touches our lives – people we’ve known, places we’ve been and the stories we’ve either heard or lived. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

58. LeCool (Dublin) Worldwide, n/a http://dublin.lecool.com/dublin/en/today/ Le cool is a free weekly magazine featuring a selection of cultural events and leisure activities, revealing what is worthwhile and the things that you really should not miss. We filter out the best exhibitions, movies, concerts & DJs as well as a careful selection of extraordinary bars, restaurants and other fine places. All our content is chosen because we believe it is worth your time and will never be traded for money. le cool is distributed as a graphic e-mail every Thursday around noon. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

59. Twitter Worldwide n/a Twitter allows sectors of society to cross. It's not your accent, it's not how you dress...it's what you say. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

60. Therapy Dogs, Worldwide, N/A Dogs help people come out of their shells, bond people, and give companionship to the elderly. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

61. Second Life http://secondlife.com/ Explore destinations inspired by real cities, such as Dublin and Tokyo. Visit new spaces unique to Second Life, such as a Renaissance-inspired Camelot or the 3D home for your alma mater. Immerse yourself in any environment you can imagine: watch the sunset from a mountaintop, dance the night away in a club or plumb the depths of the ocean on a scuba trip. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

62. U.L.Tra Tranport http://www.ultraprt.com/ ULTra (Urban Light Transport) is an innovative form of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) which emerged from a fundamental reappraisal of the transport needs of a city. The ULTra system consists of small, lightweight, computer-driven electric vehicles running on slender, special-purpose guideways. Conventional forms of public transit require passengers to collect in groups, wait until a large vehicle with a fixed schedule arrives, and travel on a predetermined route stopping for additional passengers on the way. In contrast, ULTra offers personal transport with no waiting, and takes passengers non-stop to their chosen destination. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

63. Photoreactive Sun Canopy, Milan, Italy (Concept) http://ideasandgadgets.blogspot.com/2008/04/photoreactive-sun-canopy-fusion-of.html Visitors to this year’s Salone del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair 2008)were in for a treat when they walked into a quaint Italian courtyard on Milan’s Via Borgospesso to witness Christoph Klemmt’s stunning vortex-shaped OR installation. Composed out of polygonal, polypropylene, photoreactive segments which respond to ultra-violet light, OR’s captivating powers lie in its capacity to adapt its appearance to changes in weather and daylight. Its "skin" emits flourishing hues of blue and green when exposed to sunlight and maintains a subtle translucent white when the installation is overcome by shade. Best of all, OR’s effects are not limited to daytime - at night, it generates ample atmosphere by becoming a "psychedelic chandelier" flooding its surrounding areas with a dramatic disco of lights. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

64. Dublin Zombie Walk Dublin http://www.dublinzombiewalk.com/ Every year there's a Zombie Walk in Dublin to raise money for a chosen charity. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

65. Outdoor Yoga, Ireland n/a http://www.outdooryoga.ie/ 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

66. Plane-watching, Dublin Airport Plane-watcher (as well as train-spotters and the like) interact in a very particular way with the city. They spot what often most of us don't see. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

67. Street Games, Worldwide Chess Table Tennis Pianos 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

68. The Venus Project http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where human rights are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

69. Transport Map Dublin http://www.venetikidis.com/aris/start Dublin’s lack of comprehensive and integrated public transport map has been a major obstacle. The entry point for people new to the network for using Dublin Bus in particular is very high. It demands existing geographic knowledge of the city and putting up with a confusing layout of bus connections. A city centre public transport map has been missing for years. In collaboration with other academic researchers of sustainable public transport alternatives for Dublin, a network of Bus Rapid Transit connections was developed. These routes are distributed throughout the city. Furthermore, these measures allowed for simplifications and cost effective upgrades to the network. As part of my MA I created a set of new public transport maps that match international high standards. A city centre public transport map with this level of clarity and detail has never existed in Dublin. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

70. PARK(ing) Day 17 th September http://parkingday.org/resources/ http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/take-back-the-streets-its-parking-day.php f you're ever frustrated by how much urban space is dedicated to cars instead of public use, PARKing day is your day. All over the world, citizens, artists and activists are taking part in PARK(ing) Day: taking over metered spaces and transforming them into parks for everyone to enjoy. It all started in 2005, when San Francisco art and design studio Rebar turned a metered space into a public park for two hours. Since then, the idea has become an annual event, with participants in six continents. Last year's celebration included 700 parks in 21 countries. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

71. Urban Orchard, London http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/07/urban-orchard-appears-london.php The Union Street Urban Orchard is just that: an orchard of 85 fruit trees and more, created on an abandoned site in the east end of London. It's a community project, with volunteers helping to build and plant. Part of the London Festival of Architecture, it's a wonderful example of bringing urban spaces alive and bringing back nature to the inner city. The garden will also house a greenhouse, a living wall, a tire garden, and a railway arch turned into a cinema. It's completely organic in that everything is donated or found and the design works itself from there. A plant adoption and exchange programme is being planned for one weekend. Donate one and pick one up. The Guerrilla Gardener is coming to give a workshop and there will be a cinema in the railway arches. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

72. Festival de la Musique Paris, 21 st June (every year) La Fête de la Musique is a lively street music festival held every June 21st in Paris, and is one of the year's most popular events in the city of light. Hundreds of musicians gather in the streets, bars, and cafes of Paris, giving free performances of everything from jazz and rock to hip-hop and electronic music. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

73. Public Transport, Worldwide, N/A Public Transport makes better citizens of a City. The interact with people they might not usually meet. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

74. Metropolis, (T.C.D.) Dublin, Ongoing http://www.sciencegallery.com/metropolis Metropolis is a novel research project, which aims to answer these questions by combining expertise in computer graphics, engineering and cognitive neuroscience to create highly realistic virtual crowds. At METROPOLIS: CROWD CONTROL you can check out the demos of the research carried out so far and take part in real scientific studies conducted by Metropolis researchers. Your participation will help us answer more questions about virtual crowds and contribute to the development of the computer games industry, urban planning, pedestrian and traffic modelling, evacuation simulation and assistive technologies. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

75. Recycling Bicycles Dublin Ongoing www.rothar.ie Rothar was created in May 2008. The idea came up in the beginning of 2008, surprised by the amount of bicycles abandoned and damaged in Dublin streets. We also experienced the lack of cheap and quality second hand bicycles available in Dublin, and the costs of repairs that go along with owning a bicycle, making cycling difficult for people with limited financial resources. Secondly, we have been working in community development projects as a volunteer and in a paid capacity for many years, and we could witness how people we were working with were isolated but had a great potential once they were given opportunities. we decided then to combine our environmental awareness with the social inclusion via a medium – the bicycle – that appears to us like being a very promising transportation solution to our congested city. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

76. Shared Space, Worldwide, N/A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space Shared space is an urban design concept aimed at integrated use of public spaces. It encourages traffic engineers, urban planners and experts from other fields to consult with users of public space when planning and designing streets and squares in both built and non-built environments. The concept shares some characteristics with Living streets. Shared space removes the traditional segregation of motor vehicles, pedestrians and other road users. Conventional road priority management systems and devices such as kerbs, lines, signs and signals are replaced with an integrated, people-oriented understanding of public space, such that walking, cycling, shopping and driving cars become integrated activities. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

77. Peer-to-Peer Tech. Worldwide N/A Such as peer-to-peer book sharing, car sharing, bike sharing. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

78. Decentralised Library Worldwide N/A A decentralised library is a website that allows you to list your books, and see what books others might have. You can then arrange to swop them with others. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

79. VisitDublin App Dublin Launched 2010 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0903/1224278109942.html www.dublintourism.com Dublin Tourism is claiming a first with Visit Dublin, an augmented reality application that allows users to retrieve content on 1,400 points of interest in the greater Dublin area. Itt enables users to retrieve information on a building or object that they point at with their smartphone. Tourists can now wander around the city identifying places of interest within a 10km radius of where they are, using the directional search technology. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

80. Village Fete England n/a Are Village Fetes a more established idea in England? If so, why? 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

81. She'll be right! Australia Australian Attitude. (Ah sure, it'll be grand.) (Ah sure, we'll all be dead soon.) 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

82. Plebicites, Switzerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum#Switzerland In Switzerland, there are binding referendums at federal, cantonal and municipal level. They are a central feature of Swiss political life. It is not the government's choice whether or when a referendum is held, but it is a legal procedure regulated by the Swiss constitution. There are two types and the referendums are said, by their adversaries, to slow politics down. On the other hand, empirical scientists, e.g. Bruno S. Frey among many, show that this and other instruments of citizens' participation, direct democracy, contribute to stability and happiness. The votes on referendums are always held on a Sunday, typically three or four times a year, and in most cases, the votes concern several referendums at the same time, often at different political levels (federal, cantonal, municipal). 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

83. Rail-Fly Hong Kong n/a It's possible to check in for your flight at the train station in Hong Kong. You also can check in your luggage. There is no additonal charge, and your 'check in' 2 hours starts from that time. That leaves you free to relax, without baggage, and enjoy your journey. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

84. Spiral Dynamics www.spiraldynamics.org This framework is based in the original research and theory of developmental scholar Dr. Clare W. Graves. It explores what makes us different and alike at levels deeper than the demographics of age or gender, economics or ethnicities. With these insights, it is possible to build education, business, and governance systems which fit who people are better, and to help diverse people to find contexts of best fit. In addition, it offers a trajectory for change, both progressive and regressive in our search for congruence and fit 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

85. Roddy Doyle Films, Dublin These presented a Spirit of Dublin that until then had been hidden. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

86. Culture (Art, literature, music...) 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

87. Architecture Embodies a society? Does the Spire summarise the ‘Noughties’? 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

88. Smell of Dublin Hops Horse fair Dublin Bay Ringsend Sewage Plant Liffey at low-tide 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

89. Sound of Dublin Accents Christchurch Bells Luas DingDing “ Evening Her'ld...get your Evening Her'ld!” 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

90. Spirit of Gotham summarised in the Batman Signal? Fiction. When you see the 'Batman Signal' in a film or cartoon, you instantly get a picture of Gotham. Is there something that could evoke the same spirit in Dublin? 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

91. The Isle of Eigg Scotland, N/A http://www.isleofeigg.net/ The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust was set up in 1997 to secure the island's future and to provide its small population with the opportunity to grow under their own initiatives and efforts. It is ENTIRELY self-sufficient, even to the point that the residents run a schedule between them to run the energy plant. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

92. Glassphemy San Francisco, U.S. 2010 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/06/glassphemy-project-lets-you-pitch-glass-bottles-at-friends-and-not-get-arrested.php The release of pent up energy is part of what's behind the Glassphemy project by Macro Sea, which lets you send your anger, frustration, or giddiness off into the air along with the glass bottle you pitch full force into the "recycling bin." "This whole recycling and green thing has gotten so damn boring in recent years that we felt we had to do something. GLASSPHEMY! celebrates the illicit thrill of breaking bottles while working through deeply rooted emotional issues (and sort of saving the planet a little)." To me it is signnificant that it takes place in San Francisco – a City which tends to understand the 'nature' of people and their drives. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

93. Neighbours.ie Ireland N/A A forum for people to get to meet their neighbours and community online (and hopefully later offline). 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

94. Cycle Training Worldwide & Dublin N/A People when they're cycling interact very differently with the city and society than when they're in cars or even on public transport. One of the most cost-effective ways of encouraging cycling is cycle-training. This also greatly improves safety. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

95. BREEAM Communities UK & Ireland N/A http://www.breeam.org/page.jsp?id=117 BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings. It sets the standard for best practice in sustainable design and has become the de facto measure used to describe a building's environmental performance. It can also be used to assess a community, but has never been done on the scale of a city. Should Dublin be the first? 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

96. The Natural Step Worldwide N/A http://www.naturalstep.org/ Established by a cancer surgeon, The Natural Step is a non profit organization founded with the vision of creating a sustainable society. For two decades, The Natural Step has been at the forefront of international research and dialogue about sustainable development. They have developed a proven, science based model that helps communities and businesses better understand and integrate environmental, social, and economic considerations. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

97. MerrionStreet.ie Ireland Launched 2010 www.merrionstreet.ie It's significant that this new face of the Irish Government is 'one-way'. They 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

98. Rediscovery Centre Ballymun, Dublin 2009 http://www.rediscoverycentre.ie/ The centre presents an integrated solution encompassing all elements of waste management at one central facility. The centre highlights the merits of the Waste Management Hierarchy at each level, demonstrating excellence in waste prevention, reduction, reuse, recycling and recovery. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

99. Clean Streets (Eg here Paris) n/a In Paris the streets are swept and washed daily. Water from the Seine is pumped out of gulleys (as pictured) and is used to clear the edge of the road way. Cleaning is generally of the 'old fashioned' variety whereby someone is physically examining the street and not sitting in an isolated cleaning machine driving around. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

100. Graffitti Paris n/a There is a hotline in Paris. If you see graffiti on a listed/protected building there, you can call, and they will ensure it's cleaned off within 24 hours. The concept is similar in a sense to the concept of 'broken windows'. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City

101. Car Pooling Cuba n/a In Cuba certain registrations have to stop if they pass a CarPooling spot and there's people standing there waiting for a lift. 17/09/10 Designing Dublin 2.0 - Love the City