Archive for the ‘DESIGN’ Category

Campus Waiting to become Arts Academy

  We are going through the finishing touches for the new school ISAC. Tomorrow morning is the opening ceremony. The applicants for studentship have got their notices and the invitations for the formal opening have gone out from the Ministry. These images show how it looks like just before opening. Not much different from other […]

September 2, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

Study Program and Space Planning

  The entrance to the campus of the ISArC Academy. We sat on Saturday doing the final touches of the program for the first pilot semester in the new academy. Things are falling into place, while we also have very many odds and ends to complete. We discussed teaching programs, media lab, library, how to […]

August 31, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

Application Procedure for ISAC

  Now the evaluation work of the applications for student places in the new Arts Academy is almost over. There was a meeting yesterday in the Ministry of Education and Culture here in Maputo to discuss the outcome of the interviews and a collection of marks for the examinations that the applicants took. We had […]

August 27, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ISAC Keeps Moving. Temporary Livery

These days we are going through the intake process. The applicants have taken examinations in English, Portugese, General Knowledge, Drawing and then we have had an interview with all of them. Today the board dealing with applications meet in the Ministry of Education and Culture to draw the final list. At the same time the […]

August 26, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISAC CAMPUS – increased urgency

This is the entrance to the campus. The buildup for the opening of ISAC is taking a certain crescendo. Things are late as in any proper project like this and surely some things will be done in the last minutes. But we have written the study and workshop program for the first semester, of course […]

August 19, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

New Arts Academy in Mozambique

Since we blog about our activities people follow what we are up to. I always see the blog as a two sided thing: a) Reporting to others what one is up to; especially for us who do not live close to the largest cluster of friends and co-workers, and so that others can maybe learn […]

August 18, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

Eiffel and the New Art School, ISAC

The office of Madame Alda Costa, who is the leader of the group that is forming ISAC, the arts academy here in Maputo is in Casa de Ferro (de, do or di, depending on the reference). The building houses some of the offices of the Ministry of Culture and Education. I walk the three minutes […]

August 17, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

ISAC Advertises for Students

The new art and design academy, ISAC, that I work with planning has advertized student places for the first semester starting early September. This first semester is planned to be quite experimental with dialogue meetings of teachers, experts and students to discuss the scope that is potential here in Mozambique. We are going through the […]

August 13, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISAC – THE INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ARTES CULTURA

  The whole campus seen from Avenida das Industrias Will be launched next month. The first higher education arts and design academy in the country, as I have said often before. Things have been slow and hickuppy and, yes it could be an African thing, but I had the same experience all through the Nineties […]

August 9, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

Social Engineering and Service Design in Maputo

Here is a link to a photo album on facebook about this project Evangelican service designers talk like they have invented something new. I really do not care if people think they have invented the wheel again if it works and they are happy. But military planners, society builders, philosophers and architects (sometimes all in one […]

May 16, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

Sketch Books in ENAV

The sketchbook is an important tool for the designers. It is where they write/draw/sketch down all the ideas that pop up in the, hopefully, creative mind and where they can collect and store all kind of visual material that is important. Many of my students here are not adjusted to use a sketchbook and I […]

April 19, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ABDUL AND HIS SANDALS

We live in a road named Patrice Lumumba. Like most roads in central Maputo it is named after a political hero. Lumumba was an anti-colonial leader in Africa and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the new Republic of Congo after he helped to win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only ten weeks […]

April 13, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

STRAW FURNITURE DEVELOPMENT

Alexandro and his gang have started weaving our dining furniture. I had a look yesterday at the progress. I pass them every morning when I go to the local bakery to fetch the morning bread. The frame is made of steel concrete reinforcement and I think Alexandro welds this himself. He is a very positive […]

March 26, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

Furniture out of local straw

Furniture here is very simple if you like. The guys weave it out on the street, one understands the process immediately by looking at them. Anyone can come with a design, a drawing or just an idea and they tailor it for them. Since we are settling in here in Mapto, we need furniture, and […]

March 20, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

Doing Good Projects

To Do Good! To do good projects have been on the increase recently. Social responsibility and ethics have taken over from profit and business innovation as the most discussed issues in design schools. The world of Al Gore, Bono, Architecture for Humanity and Design Without Boundaries has entered the design schools and even to some extent the […]

February 2, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed