Africa Cluster
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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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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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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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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…