Professor Sarah Glennie ∙ Director

NCAD WORKS 2025 provides a portal to the full breadth of work by our extraordinary graduates from across our four schools of Fine Art, Design, Education, and Visual Culture and encompasses students graduating from our broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and CEAD programmes.

We are extremely proud of this year’s graduating students who each in different ways demonstrate NCAD’s belief in the vital contribution that creative practice makes to our society as a force that creates space for care, reflection, innovation and new thinking—all of which are essential to a cohesive and dynamic society and economy.

NCAD’s graduates are the pipeline that drive Ireland’s creative and cultural sectors and their work will have an impact across society in years to come.

Their own lived experience of our complex world is central to our graduates’ work. As part of their journey, NCAD students have the opportunity to develop their creative practice beyond the walls of campus through long-term engagements with community partners and collaborators in a range of settings. These collaborations expand their experience and understanding of key societal issues such as housing, cultural identity and social cohesion and climate crises, and are reflected in their final projects.

The work of this generation of NCAD students not only provides critical insights into society today, but also reminds us that the possibility of transformation exists with fresh, solution-focused thinking. Their creativity reinforces the power of art and design to influence and inspire real change.

We hope you enjoy this digital experience of the work of our extraordinary graduates.

We are extremely proud of all that they have achieved, and we look forward to following their creative journeys in the future.

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BA Fashion
BA Jewellery & Objects
BA Textile & Surface Design
Joint (Hons) Education Design or Fine Art
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BA Interaction Design
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MFA in Fine Art

BA Interaction Design

Daniel O’Réalta

he/him

Child's Play: A Gameplay-centered Approach to Tackling Loneliness and Isolation in Young Inpatients

As a designer, I love to make the digital experiences I create fun to navigate.

In my major project, I’ve set out to create a more positive experience for young inpatients in hospitals. During my research, I consulted many hospital nursing and admin staff, as well as inpatients and their families. Hospitals are not designed for long-term stays, and yet that is the situation many families and young children find themselves in. There is little in the way of personal space or the ability to express themselves. Children also risk missing out on key social milestones.

Child’s Play is a game designed to give kids the space to socialise with other children and express themselves in a colourful world- separate from their sterilised hospital surroundings, in a child-safety-focused digital environment isolated from the greater internet.

I hope this project can make long-term stays more enjoyable for children.

Child’s Play is a virtual world where each user gets their own home planet, can chat, visit and play games with other users in hospital — Child’s Play is a virtual world where each user gets their own home planet, can chat, visit and play games with other users in hospital

There are many ways for users to customise their 'Home Planet', decorate their house, and change their character’s appearance!

Child’s Play is designed to be integrated within hospital intranet networks, and only users connected to these networks can play — Child’s Play is designed to be integrated within hospital intranet networks, and only users connected to these networks can play

This game can be used by any patient’s mobile device on hospital networks

Character and planet customisation is a key feature

Communication between users is a key feature

Child's Play User Flow Demo

Child's Play Major Project Pitch

Research

<p>Research gathered during the course of this project</p> — Research gathered during the course of this project

<p>Paper prototype development</p> — Paper prototype development

<p>Digital Prototype development </p> — Digital Prototype development

<p>Illustrator, James Bracken (Instagram: @jforjamesillustrations) commissioned to create assets based on initial designs</p> — Illustrator, James Bracken (Instagram: @jforjamesillustrations) commissioned to create assets based on initial designs