February 12, 2014: Building the Chasen Residence in Raleigh, with speaker Adam Chasen

Our February 2014 speaker is Adam Chasen. He and his fiancee Auditi Hussain built a cost-effective, eco-friendly house on E. Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh. Adam has stories about the environment, design, building, resourcefulness, cutting costs without cutting quality, and urban chickens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cm3mipCdw http://www.insitustudio.us/827-east-hargett/ http://intentionallysmall.com/tag/chasen-residence-in-situ-studio/ eventbrite registration (free to public, limited to 20 people) Designbox Lunch Series organized by Designbox collaborator, Karl Sakas of Agency …

January 8 2014: The Power of Public Creativity, with speaker Sarah Powers

Sarah Powers, the director of Visual Art Exchange (VAE) and SPARKcon, will be speaking today about how VAE puts on an undefined creative festival, SPARKcon, now in it’s 8th year. That “undefinition” enables true creativity to blossom, creating a framework wherein people can experiment with how to engage with the public and how to showcase work and ideas. Sarah is a fine artist …

December 11 2013: Connecting Community with Contemporary Art, with speaker Gab Smith

Gab Smith, Executive Director of CAM Raleigh will be joining us to speak about the new museum, its relationship to downtown Raleigh and the Warehouse District and the creative community that is blossoming from it. eventbrite registration (free to public, limited to 20 people) Designbox Lunch Series organized by Designbox collaborator, Karl Sakas of Agency Firebox.

November 6 2013: Creative Marketing for the Dead, with speaker Robin Simonton

Robin Simonton has been the Executive Director of Historic Oakwood Cemetery since November of 2011. Robin holds a BA in US History from the University of Hawaii and an MA in Historical Administration from Eastern Illinois University. Previously, she was the Program and Volunteer Services Executive at Girl Scouts — North Carolina Coastal Pines. Find out all about the history of Oakwood Cemetery, …

Adopting to Change: Mary Nations

Join us for lunch during Chatterbox Wednesday as we’ll learn about adopting to change in the work place with guest speaker Mary Nations for Chatterbox Wednesday. As a consultant and coach, Mary focuses on two fundamental challenges common in the workplace – helping people deal with change and difference. Mary’s background and recent work includes: Exploring both change and difference …

Chatterbox Wednesday: Open House

Last week, we announced on Wednesdays at noon we’re inviting the community along with innerbox members (lease space workers), outerbox members(former innerbox members) and betabox members (coworkers) to join us for lunch Wednesday’s at Design Box. We’re calling it ChatterBox Wednesdays. During the ChatterBox Wednesdays various topics will be discussed as such community activities, online technologies, marketing, entrepreneurship, mentoring and …

Chatterbox Wednesday!

Here at Designbox on Wednesdays’ we host our weekly lunch meeting to discuss our current projects, collaboration opportunities, what’s happening in the community and ways we can use the space that’s beneficial to everyone working from Designbox. During our meeting today we discussed various topics such as adding a 24/7 WebCam, training videos and ways we can share the Deign …