Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category

PRIVATE HOUSE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT

The final touches on the floor slabs, rendering the concrete so it is ready for use when the house is built, and the wooden neighbouring house in the background. Trees and mountains. Even though I am mostly working with design strategy, located in Mozambique, I still love to be an architect. My projects mostly take […]

April 29, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

CREATIVE ECONOMY AND AFRICA

The Palace of the Nations in Geneva where I had a meeting with the people running the Programme on Creative Economy and Industry One part of development is culture. It is somewhat different from infrastructure and basic needs. Some time before moving to Mozambique I remember someone from Doctors Without Borders saying that those that […]

April 22, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  No Comments

BOOKMAKING – A METHOD FOR DESIGN

Documentation, reflection, introspection, fun. The book to the left I made for my neighbours in Benand, with the cover out of a tourist dish-towel with an image from the village. The other images show the bookmaking in progress on the kitchen table The sketch book is the most important tool that the designer has. Yes, […]

April 15, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

OSLO NATIONAL ACADEMY DESIGN

An installation of print work done by the students and their teachers I visited my faculty in Oslo last week. Always great to be there, good teachers and absolutely great students! Once every semerster the faculty runs a cross-disciplinary week, where the students can apply for various courses that they might be especially interested in […]

April 2, 2010   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

ARCHITECTURE IN TALLIN, ESTONIA

The Faculty of Architecture is in a beautiful historical building in the old town of Tallin. Should help the students appreciate good architecture I was invited to come to the Tallin Academy of the Arts to meet the Master students in architecture and landscape architecture. The students demonstrated their schemes and we discussed where they […]

April 1, 2010   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

NEW SCHOOL YEAR IN ISAC

Students filling the assembly hall on the ISAC campus The second semester in ISAC started today on the 10th of March at 10:00. The school year here in Africa-Australis (Afica south of the Equator) is from early March to end of November. Different to the other side of the Equator. Summer holiday is December and […]

March 10, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN IN ISAC

Sóley designed this banner last August when the panic for the start of ISAC was in full swing. The use of the squares is actually based on the African mask or shield pattern where there are squares formed by bamboo or straw construction. The leaders for the establishment of ISAC at that time were also […]

March 7, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

PORTUGESE MINISTER OF CULTURE VISITS ISAC

Pocession on the campus, where Madame Canavilhas hopefully managed to understand slightly our conditions. Students and teachers welcomed her dearly Now that the second semester is soon starting in ISAC, things are really coming to place. It is great to have a bunch of new teachers after only the four of us ran the running […]

March 5, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

DESIGN PROGRAM IN ISAC, SEMESTER START SOON

The campus has very nice areas, here the teachers are walking between buildings The design teachers in ISAC are a small hardcore group with very good working spirit. Helder, Gabriel and Karina met in my house today to go through the program named: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN. It is good to have run the first semester […]

February 28, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

TWO TYPES OF DIALOGUES ABOUT THE SAME ISSUE: ISAC

On day two of the week, full house listening to philosophy and visions I am fine with understanding Portugese when we are in normal conversation, in shops etc. and I have given talks and lectures in the language, using PowerPoint for support. When the dialogue moves over to philosophical concepts and strategy, I must admit […]

February 22, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

FASHION SHOW IN MAPUTO

Mozart is a school of crafts, where young people can attend for few months at the time to get experiences of the various traditions in making here in Maputo. There is ceramic, sewing, metalwork, jewelery and many more. There was a small festival last weekend with various performances by the young peope, a kind of  […]

February 16, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

DAY OF THE PROFESSORS IN ISAC

A part of the round table today. The general director Filimone Meigos is furthest to the left Today was the first meeting of professors this semester at our new academy ISAC. Now the school is running proper since many positions have been evaluated and filled. That means we have good crowd and the faculty is […]

February 15, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

SUMMER HOLIDAY HOBBIES AT HOME

Atanasio, Gildo, Rejao, Soley and Dagmar on the Mac that Jonni managed to get for us. Being properly back in Maputo starts off the many activities that are needed here to keep up the pressure for more results and learning. It so happened last Sunday when I went to Nucleo, a colony of artists here […]

February 5, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

COURSE IN AFTEREFFECTS AND FINAL CUT AT HOME

Atanasio, Gildo, Soley, Rejao and Dagmar. Dagmar Duportail, a Belgian film maker, has been so helpful to come around today to give the interested students a crash course in the two software programs that are really needed for film and animation. Poor Dagmar landed in walking into Nucleo last Sunday and met me and now […]

February 5, 2010   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

INSTITUTO SUPERIORE DE ARTE CULTURA

Karina (design), Maimuna (visual arts), Victor Sala (everything) comparing notes after the interviews with the applicants and going through marks and portfolios. INSTITUTO SUPERIORE DE ARTE CULTURA has run its semester zero and now it heads into first semester with most of the staff in place and the second intake of students is just happening. […]

February 4, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed