Our societies, as we know, change and evolve in keeping with more or less latent needs, and if design concurrently makes these developments its own, accompanying them and giving them shape, then the growth of median age and life expectancy is an urgent issue that design has to embrace and address
AD Italia is rewriting its history, hot on the heels of Africa’s design renaissance
“Trade fairs, museums and big-name galleries are hailing the trailblazing languages of a people delving into their roots in Africa and its diaspora to find new ways of narrating their culture [...] Nowhere more than in Africa and its offspring do we sense so powerful a need to upend a righteous silence and give the world a dizzying range of savoir-faire that mingles age-old rites and cutting-edge creations, traditional techniques and pioneering technologies. In short, there’s a yearning to rewrite history, the true history of Africa." (full article)
Magazine: AD Italia
Country: Italy
Article: “Africa Dreamin’: the new creative voices that are conquering the world”
Author: Valentina Raggi
Foto: collection Homecoming, TheUrbanative, ph. Aart Verrips – via AD Italia
1 April 2022
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