Trinity College London has announced the launch of arts portfolio website Artsbox, which has already been named as a finalist in the Education Innovation Awards.
Built on the award-winning Makewaves framework, Artsbox provides a secure online space where young people can share their creativity, build a portfolio of their cultural journey, and work towards their Arts Award.
Unique facility
The site gives Arts Award advisers a unique facility to track their group’s progress, deliver feedback, and help to prepare creative work for moderation and awarding.
"...We are excited to see how young people use the site and turn it into a thriving online community." - Mark Riches
The launch of the website follows extensive consultation and testing with over 300 young people from 25 Arts Award centres across the UK. As well as helping to shape the branding and design for Artsbox, young people led the development of the platform and its accompanying app for mobiles and tablets.
Thriving community
Makewaves CEO Mark Riches said: “We are very proud to be helping Trinity College London to launch Artsbox, and we are excited to see how young people use the site and turn it into a thriving online community.
“By consulting with young people at every step of the site’s creation, we feel confident that we have been able to deliver a platform that meets their needs, and will prove to be a powerful tool in helping them to further their development in the arts.”
Trinity College joins organisations like WWF, The Department for Education and The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, which have all launched successful websites based on the Makewaves framework. Artsbox features branding and design by digital agency Hot Pepper Design.