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Redesigning Northern Ireland to Solve the Brain-Drain

Part 2 Project 2025
Richard Scott
Queen's University Belfast | UK
Redesigning Northern Ireland to Solve the Brain-Drain, reimagines disused civic typologies as regenerative infrastructures embedded within local communities.

Grounded in evolutionary development, and played-out in a (former) Omagh Police Station, it proposes self-organising spatial systems that align with regional growth priorities such as cybersecurity, green transition, and graduate retention - while reactivating high streets and reconnecting people to place.

At its core, the concept introduces a typological strategy that is universally applicable: a transferable model for releasing latent potential into socio- economic and eco-regenerative powerhouses. Each intervention is modular, materially honest, and adaptive; designed to evolve alongside community needs and aspirations.

Innovation is deepened through a literary- analytical AI methodology, with the author acting as creative director. AI is used ethically: as collaborator, not controller; consulting with a team of visionary thinkers selected for their relevance to each context’s design (and non-design) challenges. Dependent on human critique and curation, this process infuses visionary outlook whilst retaining autonomy and authorship.

This architecture is reframed from static artefact to evolving framework capable of regenerating existing systems, empowering communities, and inspiring aspirational, place-specific futures driven by ecological, human and artificial intelligence.


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