Croatian Minister of Culture, Andrea Zlatar Violic, and the Chief Executive of the British Council, Martin Davidson CMG, on the 10th January 2013, have opened UK/Croatia Extra/ordinary Design Workshops exhibition which will be hosted by The British Council Gallery between 7 and 27 January 2013.
Croatian Minister of Culture, Andrea Zlatar Violic, and the Chief Executive of the British Council, Martin Davidson CMG, on the 10th January 2013, have opened UK/Croatia Extra/ordinary Design Workshops exhibition which will be hosted by The British Council Gallery between 7 and 27 January 2013.
This exhibition is also the first event of the “Welcome Croatia” Festival which is organized by the British-Croatian Society and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, supported by the Croatian Embassy in London, on the occasion of Croatia’s accession to the EU.
The Extra/ordinary Design project has used UK expertise in design to create an inclusive process working with organisations run by, employing or educating socially marginalised groups. All of the workshops have shared the same aim: to use mainstream design and collaborative ways of working to strategically transform the situation of these organisations and to redress their creative capacity in challenging economic times.
The exhibition is the result of Extra/ordinary Design Workshops, a partnership developed by the British Council Croatia between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, the Croatian Designers Association and the School of Design, University of Zagreb.
The UK/Croatia Extra/ordinary Design Workshops exhibition will give UK audiences the opportunity to see the UK-Croatia partnership at work: building trust between people, institutions and our two countries and helping young people develop skills in tough economic conditions.
http://www.britishcouncil.hr/events/extraordinary-design-in-london
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