EDUCATION

There will be a full Education Programme supporting the project and we will be working with the specialist Universities associated with participants in the project in Norway, Japan and UK in the development of this programme.

The Education Programme will begin in Norway when Machiko Agano and Kiyonori Shimada visit their Norwegian partners in late summer this year. Both will give lectures at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Yuka Kawai will give her lecture to the National Academy to coincide with the Opening of the exhibition at Gallery F15. Students will be encouraged to develop a longer term involvement with the project through shadowing the participants and documenting progress during the project and the installation of the exhibition. When the Norwegian artists visit Japan in the Autumn, they will give lectures to their partners' universities in Tokyo, Kyoto and Okayama.

The Education Programme supporting the exhibition will target different interest groups – for example architects, landscape architects, cultural geographers, writers, students. The central themes of the Education Programme will be those of the exhibition:

• the importance of textile as a cross-cultural language
• the uses of textile within the built and natural environment ad collaborations with architects/designers
• creation of forum for discussion and building working relationships between areas of practice.
• the possibilities within collaboration between traditional skills and new materials.
• the possibilities within collaboration between curators and artists.

We are working very closely with our first venue, Gallery F15, to develop the Education Programme and as events are put in place announcements will be made on this website.