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First Day of School Conference
I decided to do some simple video documentation of our first days in ISAC. This is an interesting moment, when an academy is formed. We decided to run a simple conference so that we together can define the boundaries of the disciplines and to create a common understanding among the students and teachers of what […]
September 10, 2009
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IN ISAC, CONFERENCE
I decided to do some simple video documentation of our first days in ISAC. This is an interesting moment, when an academy is formed. We decided to run a simple conference so that we together can define the boundaries of the disciplines and to create a common understanding among the students and teachers of what […]
September 10, 2009
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9/9/9 First Day of School in ISAC
A conversation in plenum about art, design and production. ISAC director joined us for inspiration about ‘touching the soul’ Today on the 9th of 9th of 9 we started the first day of the university education in art and design here in Maputo. During the process of development we in the startup-group decided to begin […]
September 9, 2009
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Design and Art Linking Mozambique and Afrique
One of the reasons we decided to go to Mozambique was that there is enough of designers in the Nordic Countries and theCirrus Network. Actually all Western countries. So we decided to try and do our bit where there is need for people with knowledge about design and maybe also some knowledge about how to […]
September 7, 2009
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INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ARTES E CULTURA HAS STARTED!!
Primus Motor for ISAC, Dr. Alda Costa presents a seriograph to the Minister of Education Today, September 3rd we are very proud that the new academy is at last started here in Maputo. There was a formal ceremony in the morning with all the necessary people present, giving speeches with comments about the great future […]
September 3, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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EURO-AFRICAN CAMPUS FOR CULTURAL COOPERATION
Workshop on Creative Economies in Africa. Presentation about the role of Design in the Creative Economy and development projects Joaquim Chissano Conference Centre, Maputo, Mozambique, 22 – 26 June 2009 We participated in this conference and gave a presentation about design and the creative economy, our ideas about how design will develop in Mozambique in […]
June 29, 2009
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