Design workshop ” MADE IN NIGERIA”
Design workshop in collaboration with British Council, Yaba College of Technology and Royal College of Art, Platformtwo /Design Products Department.
The British Council has established new links between the next generation of designers from the UK and Nigeria by inviting six students from UK’s leading post-graduate art and design college, the Royal College of Art, to collaborate with students from Nigeria’s foremost arts college, the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos.
This interdisciplinary workshop that will open at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, on Monday 16th through February 8th 2006, will investigate how designs can be based locally but have a global appeal. Using the skills of local artisans such as street welders and the design ingenuity of the students, this workshop aims at raising the importance of design as a commercial business and cultural medium and to strengthen the networks between producers and designers in Nigeria.
Internationally renowned product and furniture designers, Tom Dixon and Martino Gamper, as well as Nigeria’s own sculptor and lecturer, Olu Amoda, will guide the students. In addition to students from Yaba College of Technology, the workshop will involve two of the finalists from the British Council’s International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year Award (IYDEY) 2005.
The National Gallery of Art, Abuja, Nigeria, and Virgin Atlantic have generously supported this project.