{"id":9260,"date":"2024-04-10T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:55:44","slug":"listahaskolinn-i-heimsokn-til-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/listahaskolinn-i-heimsokn-til-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of the Arts visiting Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2019, the Iceland University of the Arts began a partnership with the Aurora Foundation's philanthropic foundation in Freetown, Sierra Leone The collaboration between the school and Aurora involves conducting seminars in creative industries Staff and students have made three trips to Freetown to set up the various tours have been every two years in January 2020, 2022 and most recently in January.<\/p>\n

This time it was Katr\u00edn Mar\u00eda K\u00e1rad\u00f3ttir, professor of fashion design and Massimo Santanicchia, professor of architecture, together with Elva Mar\u00eda Birgisd\u00f3ttir, drama student, Vald\u00edsi Mist \u00d3\u00f0insd\u00f3ttir, except in product design, and Lakshmi Bj\u00f6rt \u00deur\u00ed\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir Jacob, who went on behalf of the University of the Arts.<\/p>\n

One visit of the entourage was to Brama Town where the respected chief Samuel and artists in the area welcomed Massimo and Lakshmi There was a three-day workshop in the art of weaving baskets and making innovative products out of them<\/p>\n

Under the guidance of the guests from Iceland, the weavers were given the freedom to let their creativity run wild and create designs that showed their unique talents.<\/p>\n

It can be said that this was a noble mix of Icelandic design and crafts from Sierra Leone, which led to innovative and cultural design.<\/p>\n

Katr\u00edn, Elva and Vald\u00eds held a workshop in the Lumley art and crafts market. There, artists from Sierra Leone together with the Icelandic entourage exchanged knowledge and ideas. There, people were offered a conversation and cooperation about creative processes, product development and product presentation.<\/p>\n

There, the Icelandic entourage learned West African methods of dyeing fabric and the process of turning it into a craft In addition, they were taught knitting techniques there.<\/p>\n

After these first two weeks in Siera Leone, Katr\u00edn and Massimo said goodbye, but the students remained for the rest of the month and worked on various projects, among other things they had a three-day workshop at Lettie Stewart Pottery Center's ceramics workshop, Elva had an acting course in connection with House of Salone which is an association of creative people in Freetown, Vald\u00eds designed a bracelet for processing Lumley beach market to name a few.<\/p>\n

The trip was very successful as the locals and the Icelandic entourage learned a lot from each other.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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