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Making Africa : a continent of contemporary design

Title: Making Africa : a continent of contemporary design / [edited by Mateo Kries and Amelie Klein].
Publication: Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Stiftung, [2015]

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Description

345 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 33 cm

Subjects

Designers > Africa > 21st century > Exhibitions
Design > Social aspects > Africa > 21st century > Exhibitions
Design > Political aspects > Africa > 21st century > Exhibitions
Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
Design > Africa > 21st century > Exhibitions
Artists, Black > Africa > 21st century > Exhibitions
Aesthetics, African > Exhibitions

Note

Catalog of an exhibition held at Vitra Design Museum, March 14-September 13, 2015 ; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, October 30, 2015-February 21, 2016 ; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, March 22-July 31, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Essays and interviews. A reinvented vocabulary: decoding the many dimensions of African design / interview with Okwui Enwezor -- What design can and should be doing in the 21st century: ten proposals / Amelie Klein -- A maker and hacker mentality / interview with Mugendi M'Rithaa -- Never despair, your miracle is around the corner: the multiple forms of designing the social / Koyo Kouch -- Profile picture: digital design from Africa / Avinash Rajagopal and Vera Sacchetti -- Informality as a starting point / interview with Edgar Pieterse -- Visual Africa: a complete picture / Azu Nwagbogu -- Fashioning the future / Odessa Legemah -- Prologue -- What do you think of the title of the exhibition Making Africa? What does 'making' mean to you? -- I and we -- What role does Africa play in your identity? Why is it difficult to speak about identity in Africa? -- Space and object -- Let's talk about the city -- What does it mean to work in the creative field in Africa? Does Africa inform your work? In what way? What do you consider important for your work? -- Origin and future -- Is Africa changing? -- What does Africa need for the future?

Call Number

Sc G 15-84

ISBN

9783945852002 (German edition)
3945852005 (German edition)
9783931936525 (English edition) (canceled/invalid)
393193652X (English edition) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

898530801

Title

Making Africa : a continent of contemporary design / [edited by Mateo Kries and Amelie Klein].

Publisher

Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Stiftung, [2015]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kries, Mateo, 1974- editor.

Klein, Amelie, editor.

Vitra Design Museum.

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

Research Call Number

Sc G 15-84

ReCAP 15-35217

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