COLONIALISM
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Changing Places
WORKING GROUP: MANILA AUTHORS: EILEEN LEGASPI-RAMIREZ, MARY ANN JOSETTE PERNIA, IRIS ANGELA FERRER, BON HENRYK CORACHEA ABSTRACT Art’s power to enable a reimagination of the present is behind the possibly utopic title of this Learning Unit. By inviting you to think about what could happen when visual relations are reshaped within a picture frame, we…
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Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy
WORKING GROUP: MASERU AUTHORS: BA RE E NE RE LITERARY ARTS : LINEO SEGOETE, ZACHARY ROSEN ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is intended to provide activity plans for students or other learners in late primary to high school, though they can be shared with any group of people with moderate literacy skills. The activities may be…
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Experiments in Injecting Critical Readings of the History of Arts and Design Education into an Introductory Course in Publication Design
WORKING GROUP: KAMPALA AUTHORS: KITTO DERRICK WINTERGREEN AND EMMA WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA ABSTRACT This learning unit was designed for use by 1 st year diploma level visual communication students at a tertiary-level art and design school in Uganda. Its aim was to introduce the students to publication design (as specified in the curriculum) while at the same…
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Kampala Working Group Research is Published in The Palgrave Handbook on Race and the Arts in Education
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa of the Kampala Working Group had her essay, ‘Margaret Trowell’s School of Art, or How to Keep the Children’s Work Really African’ published in 2018 in The Palgrave Handbook on Race and the Arts in Education , which was edited by Amelia M. Kraehe, Stephen B. Carpenter II and Rubén Gaztambide Fernández of…
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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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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…