KINOSHITA Chieko, KUBOTA Tetsu (Faculty staff, Osaka University CSCD; Steering committee members, Art Area B1)
TSUKAHARA Yuya (Steering committee member, NPO Dance Box/Art Area B1)
What is Lab Café?
A major program instituted at Art Area B1, "Lab Café" is designed and implemented by the Center for the Study of Communication-Design. Lab Café is an interactive program in which participants have wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics. The program aims to make the station a communication space in the arts and academia by taking up various themes in philosophy, art, science and technology and providing the general public with chances to be exposed to expertise on those topics.
http://www.cscd.osaka-u.ac.jp/join/labcafe.php
What is Art Area B1?
The concourse of the first basement of Naniwabashi Station was set up as Art Area B1 when the Keihan Electric Railway's Nakanoshima Line was opened on October 19, 2008. Since then, the project has aimed to make the station a center of artistic communication.