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Slí Nua
NEXUS

Where learning meets making.
Where community meets action.

Slí Nua Nexus is our dedicated studio in Ballinrobe, County Mayo,  a creative shared space where learning, dialogue, imagination, and sustainable work come together.

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Academy

Learning
Reflection
Skill-building

Archive

Memory
Knowledge
Continuity

Studio

Creation
Experimentation
Production

Commons

Community
Dialogue
Exchange

Hub

Work
Infrastructure
Sustainability

A living
Creative
regenerative
{Place & Space}

Slí Nua Studio is the physical engine of the Slí Nua ecosystem.
It is an inclusive, afforable public space,  for experimentation, collaboration, and real-world testing, where careers, creativity, innovation, and community transformation meet.

This is not a co-working space.
It is infrastructure for regenerative practice.

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The Academy

Learning. Reflection. Skill-building.
Slí Nua Academy offers structured learning experiences across careers, creativity, leadership, and civic innovation. Through workshops, mentoring, labs, and public talks, it cultivates critical thinking, regenerative leadership, and collective intelligence.

The Archive

Memory. Knowledge. Continuity.
Slí Nua Archive is a living collection of ideas, stories, and practices connecting art, culture, architecture, and community life through books, independent publications, and audiovisual archives that preserve and share collective knowledge.

The Studio

Creation. Experimentation. Production.
Slí Nua Studio is the making space where ideas are prototyped, tested, and brought into form. It supports creative production, collaborative projects, residencies, and experimentation through shared studios, fabrication tools, and project incubation.

The Commons

Community. Dialogue. Exchange.
The Commons is the shared civic ground, a flexible and hybrid space where the common is built collectively. Through exhibitions, forums, cultural events, screenings, and public conversations. It nurtures encounter, dialogue, and shared cultural life guided by a common ethos and values.

The Hub

Work. Infrastructure. Sustainability.
The Hub provides the economic and operational backbone of Slí Nua Studio, bringing together coworking spaces, hot desks, meeting rooms, creative micro-enterprises, and strategic consulting activities. By generating sustainable revenue and professional activity, it supports cross-subsidy for cultural and civic work while anchoring the initiative locally in Ballinrobe, sustaining the ecosystem as a whole.

Slí Nua Nexus is built together.

Whether you wish to rent a workspace, share your work, develop a project, collaborate, or support the growth of this civic-creative space, you are invited to be part of the journey. This collective space grows through the people who take part in it. If you’d like to contribute, collaborate, or support it, contact us to begin.

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Insaf Ben Othmane HamrounI, Slí Nua

environment, ecology, environmental protection, nature, agricultural turnaround, floor, earth, humus, plant, biomass, compost

At Slí Nua Studio, we believe that meaningful change happens through co-production and co-design, by working with people rather than designing for them. Our practice is rooted in human-centred and regenerative principles, guided by ethics, empathy, affordability, and inclusion. We understand vulnerability not as a personal condition, but as isolation: the inability to access opportunities, spaces, or collective life within one’s own geography. The Studio therefore operates as a living system rather than a set of silos, where learning, creativity, civic engagement, and economic activity support one another. We trust in human potential and in the capacity of people to collaborate, mediate, and care collectively for shared resources. At Slí Nua, art and creativity are not reserved for a few, they are rights, tools, and common ground through which communities can imagine, build, and sustain more just and regenerative futures.

Slí Nua’s DNA lies in a catalytic integration of regenerative tools, social engineering, urban living lab methodologies, and co-production practices, enabling the translation of theory into situated action and lived spatial transformation.

What is the Power of “us”? 

“The Power of ‘us’ is the transformative force that emerges when people who might never have met – different backgrounds, stories, experiences – find common ground in shared place and purpose. From that encounter grows something new: new alliances, new identities, and new ways of making cities together, deeper than cooperation, stronger than individual effort.”

Joke Quintens, Social designer and Regenerative development Practitioner. Founder Wetopia. Slí Nua Advisory board Member.
link: www.wetopia.blog 

What is for me regeneration? 

“Regeneration goes beyond sustainability. It is not enough to reduce harm: regeneration means leaving places better than when we found them. It is the practice of restoring and unlocking the potential that already lives within people, communities, and places. When we nurture that potential through connection and care, places don’t just endure, they evolve, thrive, and give back more life than they receive.”

Joke Quintens, Social designer and Regenerative development Practitioner. Founder Wetopia. Slí Nua Advisory board Member.
link: www.wetopia.blog ​