LIMERICK City and County Council have undertaken a project to transform the laneways throughout Limerick City.
+CityxChange is heading the Community Led Open Innovation that will be implemented in the Georgian Neighbourhood of Limerick City. The project seeks to combat climate change by turning Limerick into a ‘Positive Energy City’ through community led projects and proposals.
We are undertaking the Limerick Laneways project in order to improve the laneways in the City Centre
To ensure we hear your views and develop the laneways in a collaborative manner with those who have a direct interest in them, we invite you to an online session this Friday
— Limerick Council (@LimerickCouncil) May 19, 2021
The scheme invites designers and local community groups to create demonstration projects for issues facing the locality and aims to transform the Georgian neighbourhood into a positive energy district by inviting artistic disciplines in the fields of architecture, product and software designer to submit demonstration projects on how to tackle issues facing the locality.
The initiative hopes to achieve a positive energy status for the city through public engagement. Local communities and individuals are invited to submit proposals on how to make Limerick a smart energy city including how best to make use of Limerick’s Laneways.
During a City Exchange week in 2019 the +CityxChange team, alongside members of the public, gathered to share their ideas and plans for the laneways of Limerick.
Commenting on the project, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Michael Collins said:
“It is great to see such interest in revitalising our Georgian Laneways. They can be used for so many things, as highlighted by the range of projects selected.
It is so important that we all work together on projects like these and that they are community/ group driven. It gives people ownership. Georgian Limerick is one of our great assets and we need to develop and enhance them in a sympathetic yet innovative way, and the +CityxChange project is helping to do that.”
The Hunt Museum’s proposal for a Green Urban Museum in a Limerick City laneway was approved by +CityxChange as one of it’s five new projects. It is a collaboration between the Hunt Museum, LIT, Enable Ireland, Limerick 3D and the Midwest Makers.
The Green Urban Museum will include an urban garden with 3D printed objects inspired by the museum’s own artefacts and will implement principles of permaculture to create a garden in a lane.
