Gerard Fox

Gerard Fox is a design educator with over two decades of experience in interdisciplinary design education. From 2013 to 2021, he served as co-Programme Chair and lead curriculum author for the Visual Communication Design / Graphic Design+ programmes at IADT. Driven by the challenge of making design accessible and meaningful to learners, he advocates for coherent working methodologies that foster adaptable, purpose-led and collaborative approaches to creative problem-solving. By integrating critical, creative, analytical, and systems-thinking approaches, he aims to equip learners with the skills needed to tackle a wide range of complex, ambiguous challenges. His current research investigates the intersection of design, education, technology, and civic engagement, focusing on evolving civic systems that empower citizens to become active participants in the global transition. Gerard is currently investigating how universal education can cultivate essential 21st-century skills as foundational core literacies to foster a resourceful, agile, and purpose-driven society capable of navigating rapid change. He is also examining how emerging collaborative technologies and open-source platforms might be used to harness collective intelligence to drive civic and social innovation. Can empowered citizens, supported by intentional digital public infrastructures, engage all citizens within a “civic operating system” that prioritises the common good over extractive practices? Alongside his teaching and research role at IADT Dublin, Gerard is completing a three-year term as Principal Investigator (w/Rory Bradley), on the Erasmus+ project Digital Mythologies, in partnership with Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.