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SAMUEL DJIVE IN MAPUTO EXHIBITION

One of my students in Maputo, Samuel Djive has opened an exhibition of his work in Franco in Maputo. There is lots of entertaining work there with formal experimentation and love for mixture of objects and form. In my opinion this is one of the better exhibitions I have seen in Franco for a while. [...]

November 22, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ECO/BIO-PRODUCTION IN ICELAND – SÓLHEIMAR

The new and developing larger greenhouse in Sólheimar. They can not supply the demand that is coming these days from the consumer market. Icelander’s are becoming much more focused in this direction after the crash in 2008. We are a few people looking at the bio-eco game in Iceland. We are linked to the Iceland [...]

November 11, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

PRODUCTIONS IN GREENLAND

One of the aims of our projects by the Nordic Design Schools in Nuuk is to look at the production of local tools, clothes and food. Here is a little photo album of the things that are available in the tourist shops. After this nice second visit by the Nordic design schools we will look [...]

October 9, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, GREENLAND, SUSTAINABILITY  No Comments

BE SENSIBLE AND LETS NOT SHUT OUR EYES

Ben McLeish talks in a sensible way about how to deal with the potential future. We all have to think about the issue: “Do we want a livable future or do we not care!?” Here is a small interview with him where he describes some ways of dealing with issues of reorientation of society to [...]

October 9, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

HERE IS A LITTLE COLLECTIVE MAPPING DONE IN NUUK

Nuuk Days 2011 Nuuk, Autumn 2011 Small Project and Large History Nuuk Babylon Play in Nuuk  Nuuk Rock Festival 2010  Rock Festival and Street Art Arctic Food Colours of Nuuk  Block P in Nuuk Nuuk, Sept 2011  Animals in Nuuk Nuuk, Oct 2011 Visual Greenland Imagined Space     Tweet This Post

October 1, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

NUUK THOUGHTS

Not different to so many other places on earth, Greenland has been a colony for hundreds of years. Directed from Denmark. It is interesting to observe how we have dealt with living under opression that considers itself a saviour in many ways. To help primitive people to survive was the opinion of the ‘developed’ nations [...]

October 1, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

NEW ICELAND AFTER THE FINANCE CRASH

Time for a chat and socializing while browsing the things that are available. Young people in Reykjavik, Iceland have been experimenting with town spaces for events and activities. They are mostly students from the Iceland Academy of Art, the Design Faculty that I was so fortunate to be allowed to work for during the first [...]

September 10, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, PONDERINGS, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

ARON FUNDUR Á SÓLON Á FÖSTUDAG

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September 6, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, ICELAND  Comments Closed

DOCANEMA MAPUTO

  DOCKANEMA is an annual international documentary film festival held in Maputo, Mozambique. The first edition was held September 2006, and included more than 70 films. The festival is produced by the Mozambican production company Ebano Multimedia, in association with AMOCINE (Association of Mozambican Filmmakers). The second edition of DOCKANEMA took place September 14 – 23, 2007 in Maputo, including more than 80 [...]

September 5, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ART AND DESIGN HELP IN AFRICA

In 2008 Leonard Shapiro met Italian artist Andrea Mariconti while in Milan and discussed the idea of holding an art workshop for vulnerable children in Cape Town, South Africa. Leonard has an organisation called ‘CRAFTSOUTHAFRICA‘. In 2009 Leonard organized the first workshop with kids in Gugulethu with Andrea facilitating the workshop. This is what is [...]

July 19, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN  Comments Closed

THE FIRST TEST RUN SAUNA IN OUR SCHOOL IN EAST ICELAND

Here on the photo is the area where the sauna is being erected and the ceremonial area for burning and thinking and communicating. The location is very close to our building and is on the other side of the fjord from the main town. Tonight is the first official test of the new sauna that [...]

July 16, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

LUNGA ART/DESIGN WORKSHOP IN ICELAND

The Iceland Academy of Art and the Oslo National Academy of Art are running a short master course in Iceland in July like before. This is a dream of mine and Goddur, my friend and professional partner in searching for ‘other’ directions in design creativity. A photo from the workshop studio. The regular boat from [...]

July 11, 2011   Posted in: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ICELAND  Comments Closed

SMALL FASHION OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT SHOP IN ICELAND

Today I went to a small outlet shop run by friends of mine, sisters Bára and gang. They do actually run the ‘RECYCLE OR DIE’ shop and label AFTUR.IS.  A great label for amazing clothing, even I have some although they do actually not produce clothes for men. I managed one jacket. Here are some [...]

July 2, 2011   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, ICELAND, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

NÚCLEO – MAPUTO

The sign over the entrance to the arts gallery Núcleo de Arte is an old institution in Maputo. It is an important cultural and artists’ centre in the city. It is a collective for artists under the name of Associação Núcleo de Arte. It is the oldest collective of artists in Mozambique. Seated in an old [...]

April 25, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, MUSIC  Comments Closed

Mugendi M’Rithaa and African Design

I had a meeting with the highly sympathetic African design activist and educator Mugendi M’Rithaa in the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He operates in the Faculty of Design and Informatics. He is a co-founder of Design With Africa, a network for sharing a knowledge base and to be an open forum for debates and [...]

April 22, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: ART, DESIGN, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed