Lecturer

Email: tracey.dalton@tudublin.ie

Tel: +353 1 2205878

Tracey Dalton is a design lecturer, and 3rd year course co-ordinator, on the BA Interior Design at Dublin School of Creative Arts, TU Dublin since 2013. She also lectures on the BA Visual Merchandising. Tracey graduated from the BA Environmental Design at DIT in 1996. She completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Graphic Reproduction Technology with DIT in 1998, going on to pursue a career in commercial interior design practice with award winning interior design and architectural firms. She has worked extensively on projects within the hospitality design sector i.e. pubs, restaurants, night clubs, cinemas, golf clubs etc. varying from traditional to modern, conservative to innovative, along with retail and corporate sector projects, and domestic interiors also. This involved project managing various projects over this time, from feasibility stage, planning drawings, design concept development and presentation, construction drawings, statutory issues, site visits, through to practical completion, managing junior designers on various projects. Tracey’s long-term connections in the Irish interior design sector have fostered professional and educational links between Dublin School of Creative Arts and other design colleges, such as Griffith College Dublin, Cholaiste Dulaigh, Dublin Institute of Design, and Pearse College.

Tracey has been lecturing in design since 2008, previously being a lecturer and Interior Design course co-ordinator in Dublin Institute of Design on the BTEC level 6 HND in 3D Design; Level 8 BA Hons. Degree in Interior Design with University of South Wales (2011-15) and the QQI BA Interior Design Level 7 degree.

Tracey has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Third Level Teaching & Learning (2011) and an MSc eLearning (2015) from DIT, with her Masters research focussing on AutoCAD screen-casting for third level Interior Design, publishing in the ‘Irish Journal of Academic Practice’ on this subject. Tracey is a PhD candidate with Kingston University, London. Her research concerns the phenomenon of the Irish Pub for export as a commodity, focussing on the ‘Guinness Irish Pub Concept’, created in 1991 by Guinness plc and McNally Design/Irish Pub Company, where Tracey worked in interior design practice from 7 years.

Tracey also has a special interest in the ‘Students Learning with Communities’ programme at TU Dublin, with these projects being undertaken annually with first year BA Interior Design students since 2013. These include ‘StepByStep’ Youth education support, St.John of God’s, Islandbridge, Eve Enterprises/Tuiscint, Salvation Army, Crosscare, and St. Michael’s Parish Youth Project, Inchicore.

Tracey is passionate about the benefits of convergent and divergent thinking within design, in education and for industry, concurring with Professor Bryan Lawson (2005) that ‘It is probably the designer who needs these two skills in the most equal proportions.’

Symposiums, seminars, publications, arts/culture community engagement & panels:

• Judge – National Fitout Awards 2021
• Modern Interiors Research Centre Symposium, Dorich House Museum, Kinston University, January 2018 and 2019 – PhD Research presentation
• Counter Intelligences – A seminar on current research on Irish Pubs, their design and social life Dublin Institute of Technology, 15th November 2018
• Dalton, Tracey (2017) “Delivering Design Fundamentals using relevant Learning Theories in the delivery of an Interior Design project at Third Level”, Iterations: Issue 05, June 2017
• Dublin Canvas 2021 and 2017
• Guest Speaker: Students Learning with Communities Awards, DIT , 5th May 2017: ‘Students Re-Designing Rooms with the Salvation Army staff/residents’(2017)
• External interviewer - BTEC Professional Practice module: Cholaiste Dhulaigh CDFE, Raheny, Dublin 17. March 2017 to present.
• DIT St. Patrick’s Day Pageant 2017 – Designer of one of the ‘Cubes’, team co-ordinator/organiser (2017)
• 2014-16: Workshops and presentations on the MSc eLearning, LTTC, DIT Aungier St.
• Dalton, Tracey (2016) "Can Post-Lecture CAD Screencasts Reduce Cognitive Load and Foster Self-directed Learning in First Year Interior Design?," Irish Journal of Academic Practice: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 4.
• Showcase Speaker - ‘e-Portfolios in Ireland – What now? Where Next?’ - TU Dublin, Aungier St. 21st March 2016
• ‘Crosscare Cafes’ (2014) – See Arrow@TU Dublin
• DIT Summer School: Working with students on Community Links projects, June 2014.