Archive for August, 2009

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