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Synthetic Authenticity: On the Emergence of Fine Art Discourse in East Africa (2012)
This text was written by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa in August 2012 as a starting-point for the research that the Kampala Working Group is now undertaking under the aegis of the Another Roadmap School. Despite extensive evidence of variety and variation in the material cultures and aesthetics traditions that evolved over centuries across the African continent in response to…
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KAMPALA WORKING GROUP UPDATE #2 (AUGUST 2017): DESIGNING A LEARNING UNIT
The Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda generously permitted the Kampala Working Group to convene on its premises for an intensive workshop during the semester break in July 2017. At the outset Kitto and I reaffirmed our wish to use Trowell’s 1960 book African Design as the starting point for our 2017/2018…
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KAMPALA WORKING GROUP UPDATE #1 (APRIL 2017): AFRICAN DESIGN
Towards the end of 2016, following the meeting of the Intertwining Hi/Stories Cluster in São Paolo, Kitto Derrick Wintergreen joined the Kampala Working Group of the Another Roadmap School. A graduate of the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art at Makerere University in Kampala, Kitto is currently Acting Head of the Fine Art…
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Decolonizing Art Education: A Staff and Curriculum Development Project at NIAAD (2015-2017)
Decolonizing Art Education is the name that was given to a staff and curriculum development project that took place at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda, Uganda between 2015 and 2017. The project was conceived and facilitated by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (Kampala Working Group), Carmen Moersch (Zurich Working Group), George Shire…
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ARAC participates in the 2nd NEPAD Regional Conference on Arts Education in Africa (23-27 May 2017)
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), an economic development program of the African Union, launched regional Arts Education Conferences in 2015 to bring together various stakeholders to share learning experiences and best practices and work together in a consultative manner towards developing a continental framework to guide the implementation of Arts Education in Africa.…
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Kampala Working Group
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa is the founder member of the Kampala Working Group. She studied Literature at Cambridge University and Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She is currently Director of Research at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda, Uganda and Research Fellow in Fine Art at…
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ABOUT THIS WORKING GROUP
The Kampala Working Group is currently researching the impact of British colonial governmentality and “imperial epistemologies” on the establishment and development of formal visual arts and visual arts education in Kampala in the first half of the twentieth century, and seeking to identify strategies to incorporate knowledge of this history into art and design education…