Launch of Design Cafe

An exciting opportunity to work alongside Artists, Architects and other regeneration professionals to help reshape the future of Barrow Borough.

Design Café is Art Gene’s open link to the communities of Barrow Borough inspiring engagement with Regeneration.

Design Café will establish an aspirational group of local people, who are inspired and empowered to take a proactive role as champions for sustainable contemporary design-led regeneration within their peer groups and communities. The group will meet at Art Gene, creating a temporary café sometimes in the recently refurbished Art Gene Gallery amidst artworks, at other times in the studios of Art Gene’s (inter)national residency artists or at other interesting sites where design meets regeneration.

Art Gene aims to create an environment where the Design Café group feel empowered and supported to question, comment and exchange ideas about the regeneration of the social, natural and built environment and definitions of high quality design.

Presentations and Talks

Art Gene and its team of associate (inter)national artists and architects and other leaders in their field will present a varied programme of visual presentations, tailored to evolving investigations, discussions and debates.

Design Cafe Research Trips

Art Gene will also lead ‘Go explore’ research trips around the locality and beyond. The group will be encouraged to use a new Design Café discussion forum on the Art Gene website as a networking space which will help form a collective sense of purpose and identity, facilitate group and ultimately external communication and promotion.

Launch Event to be held at Nan Tait Centre Abbey Road Barrow 8th SEPTEMBER – 6PM - DESIGN CAFÉ LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENING ‘YOUR FUTURE NEEDS YOU’ - FREE

EXHIBITION CONTINUES: 9 SEPTEMBER - 17 DECEMBER 2010 12-5 PM WEEKDAYS

LATE NIGHT WEDNESDAYS ‘TIL 6 PM - CLOSED WEEKENDS. - FREE ADMISSION

Artists Architects and Designers, engaged in Art Gene’s Barrow by Design and wider programme, take a fresh look at regeneration in Barrow and further afield.

Please ensure you check the website http://www.artgene.co.uk/ for further events and up to date information, & additional special events.