What I Do

Drawing on her 25+ years of experience, expertise and effective placemaking for peacemaking, prosperity and planet track record, Mary leads a range of interactive programmes designed to expand the leadership and placemaking capacity of individuals, teams and organisations, for whom generating new possibilities for their people, places and public spaces really matters. These include:

Reimagine Moville

Mary Kerrigan, partnering with Anthony Doogan, of Moville Community Complex Development Company; and Clódagh Warnock, of Ceolan Trad Music and Harp School, was awarded 1 of 3 Hometown Architect - Reimagine Place 2024 from the Irish Architecture Foundation, Dublin.

Focusing on co-designing a new future for the Irish coastal town of Moville, that generates better workability, vitality and belonging for its people, places and public spaces, Mary leads the Reimagine Moville team in spearheading a ground-up, inclusive, collaborative placemaking process.

Selected for our: strong, diverse team; engagement approach; and relevance to the Irish Government’s Town Centres First policy, the Reimagine Moville team’s inclusive Conversations for Change series is designed to create a safe, possibilities oriented space within which community and stakeholders:

  • amplify aspirations

  • accelerate aligned actions.

  • are empowered to co-envision a new future

“Congratulations on leading the community to this stage. It is a brilliant achievement!”

Vanessa Menegaldo,

Reimagine Manager,

Irish Architecture Foundation, Dublin

Place Making for Prosperity

Photo: Mary Kerrigan

Designed for Town Regeneration Officers, their consultancy teams and stakeholders dealing with intractable dilapidation, desolation and outright dereliction, this programme equips participants to reach breakthroughs in what appear as impossible challenges, turning them into possibilities.

Participants leave more aware, inspired and motivated - armed with tools that help them work more effectively, in tried and tested ways, so they can achieve tangible transformative change: breathing life and light into once abandoned streets and spaces; maximising their impact and increasing their sense of fulfilment.

Placemaking for Peacemaking

Photo: Eugene Coyle

Designed for:

Place-maker leaders and their teams.

Students of placemaking and urban design growing up in a fast changing world - where complex core challenges require leaders everywhere to have the agility to: evolve; involve; and be flexible;

Teachers and tutors at 1st, 2nd and 3rd level colleges who understand they have a shortfall in the necessary toolkit of skills needed to deal with intractable contexts effectively.

This programme leads to: better relations and understanding of others, increased appreciation of places; greater agency in creating a world that works for everyone; enabling energising engagement that empowers co-envisioning a new future together.

All three cohorts leave better equipped to lead more effectively; collaborate better, increase voice and influence, and build trusting partnerships, better equipped to create a world that works for everyone.

Derry Peace Bridge

Designed by Wilkinson Eyre, Architects

Photo: Patrick Duddy