Institute provides studios as a resource for talented, independent creatives, within Loughborough town centre, 10 minutes walk from Loughborough train station.

MULTI DISCIPLINARY

Graffio Arts have developed a creative co-working space in Loughborough Town Centre. Institute is a cross generational, cross disciplinary, melting pot of creative media practice. Institute is providing opportunities for media skills, practice, research and development within the local area. We believe that this benefits local creatives and the wider community in various financial and cultural ways.

Members of Institute have access to opportunities for collaboration, live project participation and creative research and development for those that wish to broaden their practice - or just great studio spaces to work from.

Make it stand out

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

OPPORTUNITIES

Members of Institute have access to opportunities for collaboration and live project participation. There is also business advice and creative practice mentoring and development for those that wish to broaden their practice

FACILITIES + RESOURCES

Dedicated desks on short or long term basis, kitchen with coffee machine, various studios, parking, meeting and making room, super-fast broadband, exhibitions and events, marketing, community, business and creative advice, lockers, CCTV, 24hr access…

WE CHAMPION CREATIVES

We are providing opportunities for media skills, practice, research and development within the local area. We believe that this benefits local creatives and the wider community, in various financial and cultural ways.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

ARTISTS

We are interested in collaborating with artists that are interested in work that is mediated with some form of technology. These may be from the field of New Media Art or beyond. There are artists, designers, programmers and others from across the arts spectrum, working at the lab. The use of media is a common thread that encourages collaboration across these disciplines. Although as an artist, you are likely to be focused on developing your practice, we encourage those that are interested, to offer knowledge, alternative points of view or technology expertise to live projects. In turn, those with a design or commercial focus may be able to help you develop and communicate your practice in new ways.

COMMERCIAL CREATIVES

We are looking for outstanding creatives with knowledge and skills within design, production and marketing. Graphics, web, film, photography, sound, editing, copy writing, marketing.

TECHS

Are you from some kind of technology background and interested in how your skills and knowledge can be integrated with arts projects? Get in touch…

PROJECT MANAGERS / ARTS SUPPORT

We are interested in collaborating with projects managers, admins and those that are interested in support from a marketing background. We are also interested in talking to those that are interested in events management from a curation, logistics or installation background.

THE BENEFITS OF COLLABORATION

When we work together, we learn faster, we accomplish more and we are exposed to new ideas and new horizons while providing a variety of skill sets available to cover broader projects. Institute works to develop creative practice and to seek new creative and commercial opportunities for it’s members.

DEVELOPMENT

The more that you are willing to put into Institute, the more you will likely get out of the experience. Institute is a new enterprise and it’s future will largely be defined by the responding to the experiences of it’s members.

GET INVOLVED

New members are included in many of the decisions relating to the labs development. If you’d like to take part in developing where Institute goes tomorrow then get in touch.

STUDIO LIFE

You will meet other co-workers from the world of art, design and technology. You will see clients working on live projects as well as representatives of local arts organisations. You will be able to give advice to developing interns and seek advice from those more experienced than you. You will be able to make contacts during live events and show your work to local audiences.

NOT FOR PROFIT

Institute's studios are run as a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company, founded by Graffio Arts and facilitated by Creative Initiatives CIC.

LIVE PROJECTS

Those working at Institute have the potential opportunity to work on live projects.

Institute is an initiative born out of an ambition to collaborate with a host of local talent from across the disciplines of the arts, design and technology. Those that we collaborate with do so under their own names and bring specific expertise to projects.

Institute is interested in ideas and in the ways that they are communicated. When communicating to a remote audience, we are interested in the nature of the media technology that enables these kinds of interactions. We work across disciplines on both live and research projects relating to media practice development.

EVENTS

We host events, have media and business mentoring and are open to creatives looking to take the next step in their careers and practice.

THE USE OF MEDIA

The development of ideas and our desire to communicate them have always been defining characteristics of human culture. How we transmit our ideas to a remote audience continues to evolve and is now typically linked to the use of existing or emergent media technology. Institute is interested in these ideas and in the different ways that they are mediated.

To investigate this as broadly as possible we collaborate at the media intersection of arts practice, design methodology and the use of enabling technologies. We encourage those interested in the use of media, across disciplines, to join us.

Institute should be a melting pot for different perspectives, different skills and different technologies under the media umbrella.

MAKING A SCENE

We take local optics seriously- we must communicate the creative projects produced within the studios to provide a beacon for local individuals, organisations and brands- to educate, inspire and generate conversation within the local area.

THE STUDIOS

STUDIO ONE

We have facilities available in Studio 01 for creatives seeking fixed desks on a short or long term basis.

STUDIO TWO

This is a multi-purpose, co-working space for those that would like a desk on a flexible basis. The studio also hosts workshops, talks and events.

STUDIO THREE

This is a blank canvas for the next small business or small team . Let us know if you think that you could thrive within this environment.

STUDIO FOUR

A meeting and making room facility available for members of Institute.

STUDIO FACILITIES