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Comment by Adam StJohn Lawrence on January 16, 2011 at 13:19

Hello African Design Thinkers.

We need your help!

The Global Service Jam will be a worldwide event on 11-13 March this year. People will come together at locations all over the world and have 48 hours to design new services.

It's a great occasion to learn and exchange methods, meet other designers, and give non-designers or customers a taste of service design in action. It's also great for publicity.

So far, we have around 40 locations worldwide.

As you can see here http://bit.ly/h4A3rH Africa is underrepresented!

We have one team in Cape Town who are wonderful, but have little design experience as far as I know. Otherwise, Africa is still empty on our map.

So if you are a designer in Africa  I'd like to ask you to take a look at http://www.globalservicejam.org and think about running a Jam. It's easy, fun, and good for the future of our field.

If you are outside Africa, but know African designers, please point them to the site and ask them to join the Jam!

Thanks

Adam

Global Service Jam

(non profit)

 

 

Comment by Satu Miettinen on December 9, 2009 at 7:36

Anyone from South Africa? I'll be visiting CPUT for service design workshop from the 8th of February until the the 12th of February, 2010, Cape Town....

Comment by Kasaija Gerald on September 18, 2009 at 12:44

I think Design plays a big role as long as it has familiar aspect as the culture of that part of Africa its made for. Thanx for the platform.

Comment by WL Wong on July 31, 2009 at 14:54

Just to mention Chaz Mayivane-Davies (Zimbabwean national) now Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Worked with him a while back on a book project. Check out his work at http://www.maviyane.com/.

Comment by Halldor Gislason on July 27, 2009 at 19:43

Thanks for the info, I had not seen the creative africa.
If you guys are interested we blog from Maputo here:
http://nordicdogs.com/mozambique/
Dori

Comment by Satu Miettinen on July 15, 2009 at 10:28

Hi African Design thinkers, Check out our program for the Kuopio experience! We have people coming from South Africa, Uganda, Kenya and Botswana. During the conference we are also planning for a workshop in co-operation with South African living lab @ CPUT. I need to send invite to Retha de la Harpe to this group also. Melanie, are you in Finland during our conference? Could you participate?

Network Guide Comment by Arne van Oosterom on July 15, 2009 at 10:08

Just read something about AppLab

"The Application Laboratory is an initiative of the Grameen Foundation. We work to promote innovation in the provision of services and information using mobile phones and other ICTs (Information and Communication Tehcnologies) to alleviate poverty in the developing world."

http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/section/index

Is anyone here connected to them?

Comment by Emer Beamer on July 8, 2009 at 21:28

more from emer:
http://www.creativeafricanetwork.com/ many african deisgners and artists

Comment by Emer Beamer on July 8, 2009 at 21:26

Melanie that magazine is nice! see this too http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com from emeka okafor he keeps tracks on many creatives in africa

Comment by Emer Beamer on July 8, 2009 at 21:15

check out www.makerfaireafrica.com where we plan to showcase african innovation and ingenuity, come if u can :-)

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