Reconnect the Disconnected
See the light
Reconnect the Disconnected is a community-academic partnership between Dublin South City Partnership and TU Dublin Aungier Street, initiated in January 2026. Working alongside ecologists, architects, chemists, educators, social enterprises and over fifty volunteers, the project transformed a neglected concrete courtyard of TU Dublin building into a biodiverse garden. Native trees, handmade timber benches, community-built planters and a bee hotel are now in a space shared by students and local residents.
We were participating and documenting the story of the project from first pencil sketch to final planting, taking photographs and videos, writing the exhibition panels and connecting people across institutions and communities.
The project is a case study in community organisation as activator of institutional space and testament to what becomes possible when people leave meeting rooms and start working together.
Community-academic Partnership between Dublin South City Partnership and TU Dublin Aungier Street
Donor Funding
TU Dublin Green-Campus (SATLE) and Dublin South City Partnership
Accrediation
Accrediation and thanks to these following groups who made this project succeed:
- TU Staff & students
- DSCP
- Pocket Forests
- The Grassroot Guild
- Plan Bee
- The Men’s Shed Dublin 12
- TU Dublin Campus and Estates
- Chaplains
- TU Dublin Faculty of Business and Augier St. Campus House Committees
- School of Architecture, Building and Environment (Construction)
- School of Mechanical Engineering (Metal Fabrication),
- Apprenticeship (Printing & Decorating),
- Green-Campus,
- Societal Engagement,
- Sustainability Education,
- Student Union and Student Life & Volunteering.
Over 60 volunteers gave their , their energy and their hands.
TU Dublin is Ireland’s first Technological University and Dublin’s second-largest university, with 28,500 students across five campuses in Grangegorman, Blanchardstown, Tallaght, Bolton Street, and Aungier Street.
