AS UPCYCLING WORKSHOP RETURNS.

The city of Abuja is about to experience a refreshing bath of technological and artistic musings. A contemplation of thoughts forged with fabrics of the UN 2030 Agenda as the Upcycling Workshop returns this August.  

With the theme of Upcycling Redefined, this year’s Upcycling Workshop will focus on material hybridization, co-creating and fusion of technology with an ambitious dive into the intrigues of circular economy.

Upcycling redefined, will introduced participants to the practice of material hybridization: a practice of interplaying non aligning materials, materials that are chemically incompatible, like metal and plastic, with the interplay of 3D Machine a model’s hand can be printed and fused with connectors, thereby creating a hybrid art piece.

It will also highlight circular design approach, an approach that consider material end use from inception, an opportunity to understanding material relationship, durability and chemical components.

Fifteen artists drawn from various stage of environmental art practice and selected from the pool of applications to the Open Call will meet for lectures and work during the 21-day workshop intensive, open thematic practical workshop scheduled to hold from the 24th of August to the 14th of September, 2021.

Activities will include junking, artist talk, an open house, gallery tour, AFS Screening, two weeks production and one-week exhibition at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. Lectures and production hold at Skills – G Innovation Limited, Abuja.

A high-powered team of facilitators have been selected for the workshop –  Tantua Diseye, Steve Ekpenisi, Afam Nnamani, Philips Nzekwe, Shira Lane of the Atrium – Creative Innovation Center for Sustainability, Sacramento, California, USA and Nduwhite Ndubuisi Ahanonu, Founder IICD Center, Abuja.

The Upcycling Workshop is made possible by funds from the US Embassy Abuja and Supports from the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, it is designed and managed by the International Institute for Creative Development (IICDCENTER), Abuja.

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