June 11 2014: Behind the Scenes, Secrets of the Circus, with speaker Sara Phoenix

Our Designbox speaker for June 2014 is Sara Phoenix from Cirque de Vol Studios! Sara will share some of thebehind-the-scenes secrets from the circus in Raleigh’s Warehouse District. Here’s a preview of what to expect: Teaching circus arts is just a guise. Our real motive is to further the evolution of the human race by empowering folks with the tools they need to break out of their current …

May 14 2014: Impermanence in Design Culture, with speakers Jedidiah Gant and Elisa Huber

This month’s Designbox speakers are Jedidiah Gant and Elisa Huber from the College of Design at NC State, speaking on the topic of impermanence as it relates to design, art, culture, and our interaction with objects. They’ll share lessons from Volume 37 of The Student Publication, one of the oldest student-led design journals in the country. Designbox’s own Aly Khalifa is one of the latest volume’s contributors, joining …

April 9 2014: Why Americans Lost Their Faith in Local Food, with speaker Matthew Booker

Our April 2014 speaker is environmental historian Matthew Booker. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at NC State and his research examines the intersection between human beings and the natural world in North America. “In my current project, I am researching the history of the oyster industry in the United States during the industrial and urban revolutions of the …

March 12, 2014: Sharing the open source movement, with speaker Jason Hibbets

Our March 2014 speaker is open source advocate Jason Hibbets. Professionally, Jason runs OpenSource.com, a Red Hat community service: “Opensource.com is an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life. “Our goal is to further the open source way by sharing the open source movement. Our community of readers is made up …

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, …