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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

MOZCELEB, A MAGAZINE ABOUT FASHION IN MOZAMBIQUE

The cover and back of the current Mozceleb Magazine. On the right is Maria Helena Pinto posing up to Gilles and Cecilie’s mural in Danse’Artes Mozceleb is a new fashion and culture magazine here in Mozambique. The 4th edition has come out and features some work that we have been involved in. There are posted […]

October 13, 2010   Posted in: DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

2D/3D EXHIBITION

One of the most culturally active places in Maputo is the Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain, a culture centre run by the French government. They import various artists from abroad and also support lots of local activity. This week, days in a row there have been openings of exhibitions and most weekends there are great concerts. The […]

October 13, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: DESIGN, 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 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

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

DETOURNAMENT IN ISAC, MAPUTO

Today we had a critique about the work the students in ISAC did for the detournament course that we have been running to develop a critical perspective to the work they might do, coinciding with the general elections here in the end of last month. The work is of various quality while the process has […]

November 9, 2009   Posted in: DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed

TOOLS OF OUR TRADE – DESIGNERS

Stones on campus were used to load the books while the glue was drying Today we had a workshop in ISAC where the students learned to make their own sketchbook/diary/reflective tool. This item is the fundamental tool of our trade, where we run our own internal dialogue with ourselves. Testing, experimenting and criticizing what we […]

October 20, 2009   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO  Comments Closed