Posts Tagged ‘Horizon’

Join Us Later at 11:00 For More

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

So in a couple of short hours, or probably less, last week I’ve managed to get my work that I’m doing for the Spomenik project on no less than ten Slovenian news outlets, thanks in large part to the brave and media-savvy work of our partners at the Study Centre for National Reconciliation. I’ve never [...]

Learning How to Talk About Pizza in Kigali

Friday, June 11th, 2010

There are many things I never knew about Rwanda and could have guessed and many others that I could never in a million years guess. One of them is that I’ve had some of the best pizza I’ve ever had there. While it sounds incredibly trite, especially considering the extremely heavy and sensitive nature of [...]

The Last Thing I Ever Thought I Would Need as a Designer Would be Vaccinations and Anti-malarial Tablets.

Friday, May 28th, 2010

View Larger Map So tomorrow is a ludicrously early start to Kigali, Rwanda via Brussels for research work for the Pervasive Monuments project. What started as Spomenik, now has taken on a paralell project looking at public memorialisation and technology in education in post-genocide Rwanda. On top of having been vaccinated for everything from Yellow [...]

Spomenik

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Spomenik is one half of Pervasive Monuments project done with Horizon Digital Economy Research which replays and relays the events of post World War II Communist political massacres in Slovenia. The project is concentrating on visitors happening upon massacre sites and their hidden histories, as well as on educational scenarios where school groups we are [...]