Developing Artspace Online

Artspace Online forms an end point of a two year consultation period that set out to address the use of digital technologies in Leeds Art Gallery’s community, education and interpretation strategies.

The initiatives and projects that specifically fed into the development of Artspace Online were:

Hidden Histories
2007
Funded by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council as part of the Designated Challenge Fund.

Artspace - a consultation
Early 2008
Funded by Renaissance Yorkshire; a design collaborative partnership between Leeds Museums and Galleries and Leeds Metropolitan University.

Artspace - a consultation II
2008 - 2009
Funded by Renaissance Yorkshire; further discussions and projects took place in looking specifically at the use of technology in Artspace. We worked with students and lectures at Leeds College of Art and Design, worked with Members of the Lazer Centre in Armley, The Chapeltown Young Peoples 10-2 Club, Thomas Danby College, The Project and Leeds Youth Service at the Prince Phillip Centre.

Artspace Online
2009
It soon became possible to push forward with the creative ideas that the above projects and consultations encouraged. We invited a number of the young people
That had already contributed to the development so far to work with The Digital Learning Agency and ourselves on the final stages of Artspace Online’s development. Eight young people (aged 17 - 21) took us up on the offer and contributed to the design, look, feel and content of the site as it now stands.

Artspace Online Opens
Summer 2009
It was with these debates that shaped Artspace Online into how excites now nevertheless, our conversations should not stop. Artspace Online is Leeds Art Gallery’s open space for debate with you. It is your space to have a say

Written by: Dominique