Ellipses in Mozambican design hit the spotlight this Thursday – Watch

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Ellipses in Mozambican design hit the spotlight this Thursday – Watch

9:33 CAT | 28 Jun 2017

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With the theme “Ellipses in Mozambican Design”, Mozambique this Thursday hosts Design Talk, a platform for discussing design in Mozambique, for the first time.

Design Talk is an initiative of MED Comunicação, with the support of the Pedagogical University (UP) and other organisations, and will take place on June 29 at the UP Central Library in Maputo between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m.

The event will bring together professionals from the fields of design, journalism, marketing, advertising, the visual arts, students, teachers, creative studios and designers curious to share experiences and knowledge around local and global design.

Design Talk is the first national initiative in the genre and springs from partnership with national and foreign organisations such as Design Culture (Brazil), Festival Literatas, Chamanculo Guezi Movement, Maputo Fast Forward and the UP Technical School. It is both a physical and digital platform for the promotion of debate, research, innovation and creativity in design in Mozambique, aiming to contribute to its dissemination inside and outside the academic world.

The platform hopes to provide a space for discussions and sharing, intending to demystify the concept of design and others associated with it and hoping to consolidate “Mozambican design” and disseminate it nationally and internationally.

The Design Talk debut is themed around “Ellipses in Mozambican Design”, with communications guru Sérgio Langa and creative Cláudio Mangujo as key speakers.

The theme was chosen to reflect on design in Mozambique, and on the necessity of such a thing’s existence, examining historical references that originated what we now call design in Mozambique.

The theme will be divided in three main parts. The first is a discussion of the origins of the design in Mozambique – the first attempts to communicate through design, the precursors, reference of the geographic and temporal space. Secondly, design in the post-independence period – trying to understand whether there will be a tendency to unify design in this era, the means available for production and the relation to international design. Finally, there will be trends in current design in Mozambique – what is at production level, the technological influence on the production of objects and design parts, the emergence and influence of schools in design.

It is also intended to show creative ideas about current design and how previous phases contributed to the current ways of designing.