Hunt Living Lab

The Hunt Living Lab’s aim was to unite vibrant communities and socially responsible companies striving for meaningful and enduring impacts from their corporate social responsibility budgets and programmes, to develop innovative products and services for the Hunt Museum. Testing the CSR cultural heritage community model through the Living Labs methodology, corporations, Irish museums, and local communities came together to co-create a project aligned with the museum’s Climate and Sustainability theme for 2023.



From these collaborative efforts emerged the 'Weaving Willow' project, born out of co-ideation and creation sessions involving local corporations and Irish museums. Working closely with corporate partner Cook Medical, and members of the local community for co-creation of the project output, ‘Weaving Willow’ resulted in:

• 4 living willow sculptures in the Hunt Museum garden, each inspired by an object from the Hunt Museum Collection
• 1 community made sculpture inspired by an object from the Hunt Museum Collection
• 3 employee wellbeing willow weaving workshops at Cook Medical  
• 1 temporary willow garden sculpture created by a group of young people from St. Gabriel’s school
• Willow birdfeeder and willow lantern making workshops for community to experience and learn a new heritage skill

This project marks the successful completion of one iteration in testing the CSR cultural heritage community model at the Hunt Museum. For a deeper dive into the Hunt Museum process, Living Lab methodology, more insights and photographs of all of the above- explore our diary entries documenting this transformative journey.