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U. Brückner and F. Rothenberger, Eds., NICE lab 50/50, Nairobi. 2024.
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NICE Lab 50/50 Nairobi 2024
15.07. - 4.08.2024
Nairobi, Kenya
50/50 means dividing something in half, for example in a deal, a sale or a profit.
In our Summer School, we think about the saying in relation to our everyday lives. What everyday stories does 50/50 tell and what does it mean to us?
NICE Lab 50/50 is a project format at the interface of international education and cultural networking with a special focus on innovative and accessible design tools and techniques offered by digital technologies. The NICE lab 50/50 involved young art and creative professionals with a self-taught background from Vivandani, Nairobi, as well as students from TUK-Nairobi, Kenya and UP-Pretoria, South Africa and Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany. The mentorship is made up of experts from Kenya, South Africa, Germany and Switzerland.
In this context, 5 input workshops took place:
Creative Writing > Experimental Writing Workshop
Fully Analog > Experimenting and designing with guerrilla printing techniques
Totally Digital > Experimenting with current digital design tools
Typography and Layout > Design basics in typography and layout
The NICE Lab 50/50 is a co-initiative of NICE labs (Flurina Rothenberger, Rahel Arnold) from Switzerland and the Faculty of Design at Fachhochschule Dortmund (Prof. Ulrike Brückner) in Germany. The content and structure of NICE Lab 50/50 in Nairobi was developed together with the participating lecturers, the universities from Kenya, South Africa and Germany as well as the IT company Megasmart, which offers disadvantaged young adults in Viwandani training at the interface of creativity and digital technologies.
NICE Pop-Up Shop -> Presentation and exhibition of the results
The students presented the projects created in the workshops at CheChe, a political bookshop in Nairobi. The projects created in the workshops were documented in
a magazine, 2 further booklets, as well as posters, various postcards and buttons. The products were packaged in typical everyday shopping bags and could be purchased at the exhibition. The publication bags are also presented and sold at book fairs.
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NICE lab 50/50-> The Bag (publication)
A small selection of the infinite number of products and photos created during the workshops, collected in an everyday shopping bag, contents per bag: 1 magazine, 2 booklets, 3 postcards, 1 typo poster, 3 pins. This publication will be presented at book fairs.
Keywords
NICE labs
Nairobi
Summer School