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ISARC STUDENT ACTIVITY

Fashion design students planning outfits It gives me pleasure to disseminate the ambience and work of the students in the academy in Mozambique. There are not so many openings for the students to show their work nor information about the school. Here is a little album showing moments in the ISArC campus in November 2010, […]

November 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISArC FACES FROM STUDENT PROJECTS

Fun faces made by the students at ISArC, great fun exploration of the fusion of art and african traditions. Tweet This Post

November 5, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISArC CAMPUS GROWING

The new administrative block under construction The one year old academy in Mozambique is slowly growing and establishing itself as an institution of learning and culture. The campus is actually a rehabilitation of an earlier school for crafts and skills. That means there are primitive workshops on site for timber, metal, glass and electricity. These […]

November 2, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISArC FIRST BIENNALE ABOUT CULTURE

Canadian Guest (professor of pedagogy from British Columbia University). Director of the cultural management faculty Estevpo Filimpo and Mike van Graan, leader of the Arterial Network in Africa: http://arterialnetwork.org/ The first Biennale about culture and the arts in Mozambique is taking place these days (27th-30th October). It is very interesting to follow the dialogue and […]

October 30, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISArC student HENRIQUE CALISTO OPENS EXHIBITION

Henrique listening to good words about himself from the director of the cultural center and on the left the exhibition organizer Henrique Calisto is of the first group of students to attend ISArC and he is also a teacher in ENAV art school. Henrique has been painting for years and yesterday he opened a 10 […]

October 12, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

OCTOBER CAMPUS IN MAKING IN ISArC

The newspapers are informing the public about the first biennale in ISArC. This is from the newspaper Scorpion Tweet This Post

October 10, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

FIRST BIENNAL IN ISArC IN MAPUTO

ISArC was formally opened just over a year ago. Here is a little blog about that moment. Now the school is in full process, lots of activity on campus and the next milestone will be the first Biennial held by the school, named Bienal 2010, Campus de Outubro. This will become a milestone in the […]

October 7, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

PURE OIL FOR BABIES IN MAPUTO

Video of the oil making ISArC, the art academy in Mozambique has run its first year and the second intake of students will take place over the Christmas break, which here in the Southern hemisphere is summer holiday. Next March the school will start its second year of full program. But the lower level high […]

October 2, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

End of semester presentation in ISArC

The students working the final touches on their group work before presentation. This is the fashion gang in front and the product designers in the distance. This week was the final week of the first formal semester in ISArC here in Maputo. Yes, ISArC is the name from now on. The leadership is developing vision […]

July 3, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

FORMAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT ISArC-KHiO

Filimone Meigos, director of ISAC and Cecilie Broch Knudsen, rector of KHiO, the two leaders that have signed the formal cooperation agreement on June 15th 2010. As those that have followed my work for a while know, I have been working in Mozambique supporting the establishment of the promising new and first National Academy of […]

June 15, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

MURAL PROJECT IN ISAC

Photos from the first day activity, presentations and critique. The students made their proposals and had critique from the teachers and guests. The bottom photo shows the 4 gables on the blackboard that have been selected for painting. Gilles and Cecilie also gave a good presentation of their work and methods. Now we are well […]

May 16, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

ISAC STARTING TO LOOK LIKE ART SCHOOL

The new school has started to look like an art school with 3 dimensional model making in art and a very interesting production of modules in design. Lots of card and paper and glue. A normal first year activity. Now this week we start a mural project, something that the Mozambicans are very used to, […]

May 12, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  Comments Closed

DESIGN STUDENT IN ISAC WITH PRESENTATION

Sat through a simple project presentation today, with product development, two dimensional planning and three dimensional model making. Lovely work Tweet This Post

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

DESIGN STRATEGY, WORK AND REFLECTIONS

The Notes on Design Website My work in Mozambique and various other things that I am involved in sometimes generates interest in the design community. I am myself of course very happy to tell about my projects, to promote the work of the so many people that I meet and operate with. There are such […]

April 30, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN  No Comments

ISAC FACULTY OF ART AND DESIGN TIMETABLE

Like all schools ISAC has its timetable. It is the first proper one since this is the first year and the last semester we ran on a simpler basis. I like to post the timetable here for the record of how the first semester is run. The timetable in the latin countries (and ISAC adheres […]

April 22, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: ISAC - KHiO  No Comments