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Making Africa

It’s time to move on from talk of the Dark Continent

Vitra Design museum

 

Making Africa-Vitra Design Museum
Making Africa-Vitra Design Museum

 

 

Studio Swine
Studio Swine

 

 

There are already 650 million registered mobile phones in Africa, more than in Europe or the US. Many of these devices have access to the Internet and thus create a platform for communication and the exchange of information. This portal to the world has enabled the shift in perspective that lies at the centre of »Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design«. The exhibition focuses on a new generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers and designers from and within Africa, who – as »digital natives« – address a global audience and provide the world with a new vantage point on their continent. They often work across several disciplines simultaneously and break with conventional definitions of design, art, photography, architecture and film.text by: Vitra Design museum

Making Africa- shows how design is accompanying – and even promoting – economic and political change on the continent and engaging in a close dialogue with related disciplines, such as the fine arts, graphic design, illustration, film, photography, architecture and urban planning. A central role is played by the new media, which made this shift in perspective possible in the first place. text by: Vitra Design museum

 

Francesco Soro for Collage
Francesco Soro for Collage
photo by :Helmut Newton
photo by :Helmut Newton
photo by :Helmut Newton
photo by :Helmut Newton
Frank Bayh and Steff Rosenberger
Frank Bayh and Steff Rosenberger

 

here are already 650 million registered mobile phones in Africa, more than in Europe or the US. Many of these devices have access to the Internet and thus create a platform for communication and the exchange of information. This portal to the world has enabled the shift in perspective that lies at the centre of Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design. The exhibition focuses on a new generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers and designers from and within Africa, who – as »digital natives – address a global audience and provide the world with a new vantage point on their continent. They often work across several disciplines simultaneously and break with conventional definitions of design, art, photography, architecture and film. text by: Vitra Design Museum

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Manuel Herz
Manuel Herz
Vitra Design Museum
Vitra Design Museum
Kenneth Cobonpue
Kenneth Cobonpue
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The Vitra Design Museum has gathered the work of 120 artists and designers to examine design’s role in the economic and political shifts of the African continent. The show spans various media and is divided into four rooms – Prologue, I and We, Space and Object, and Origin and Future. Featured projects include buildings by Francis Kéré, David Adjaye and Kunlé Adeyemi, furniture by Cheick Diallo and the pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

 

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