NICE lab 50/50, Nairobi

<p>NICE Lab 50/50 Nairobi 2024</p><p>July 15, – August 4, 2024<br>Nairobi, Kenya</p><p>“50/50” means splitting something evenly in half, for example, in a deal, a sale, or a profit.<br>In our Summer School, we’ll explore how this idiom applies to our everyday lives. What everyday stories does 50/50 tell, and what concerns do they raise for us?</p><p>NICE Lab 50/50 is a project format at the intersection of international education and cultural networking, with a special focus on innovative and accessible design tools and techniques offered by digital technologies. NICE Lab 50/50 involved young artists and creative professionals with self-taught backgrounds from Vivandani, Nairobi, as well as students from TUK-Nairobi in Kenya, UP-Pretoria in South Africa, and the Fachhochschule Dortmund in Germany. The mentoring team consists of experts from Kenya, South Africa, Germany, and Switzerland.</p><p>In this context, five input workshops took place:<br>Creative Writing > Experimental writing workshop<br>Fully Analog > Experimenting and designing with guerrilla printing techniques<br>Totally Digital > Experimenting with current digital design tools<br>Typography and Layout > Fundamentals of typography and layout</p><P>NICE Lab 50/50 is a joint 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 were developed in collaboration with the participating faculty members, universities in Kenya, South Africa, and Germany, as well as the IT company Megasmart, which offers training to disadvantaged young adults in Viwandani at the intersection of creativity and digital technologies.</p><p>NICE Pop-Up Shop –> Presentation and Exhibition of the Results<br>The students presented the projects created in the workshops at CheChe, a political bookstore in Nairobi. The projects created in the workshops were documented in <br>a magazine, two additional booklets, as well as posters, various postcards, and buttons. The products were packaged together in typical everyday shopping bags and were available for purchase at the exhibition. Going forward, the publication bags will be presented and sold at book fairs.</p><p>/<br>NICE lab 50/50-> The Bag (Publication)</p><p>A small selection of the countless products and photos created during the workshops, gathered in an everyday shopping bag; contents per bag: 1 magazine, 2 booklets, 3 postcards, 1 typography poster, 3 pins. This publication will be presented at book fairs.</p>

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