Quentin Cornet and I headed to Ginea with the aim to collaborate with people of a different culture, in order to confront our design concepts. We looked for a local organization, who could put us in contact with artists, craftsmen and students. Within 5 days, we planned a one-month work program for craftsmen and students, which led to an exhibition and a book.

Craftsmen workshop

Five wood-carvers, a leather worker and a cabinet-maker participated in this workshop. The curriculum that Quentin Cornet and I created was made to jostle their work-habits. During the first week, participants selected one of the subjects that we proposed to them and worked independently to produce an object. The second week, they worked in multidisciplinary pairs in order to confront their ideas and techniques with the other person’s. The workshop ended with an exhibition of all objects produced, which were successfully sold afterwards at a local gallery.

Student workshop

The Institut Supérieur des Arts de Guinée  -ISAG- put us in charge of their fifth-year multidisciplinary students; designers, illustrators, carvers, movie-makers and art-critics (160 students in total). Quentin Cornet and I set-up diverse teams and organized various workshops, all of which created video-clips, one of which can be viewed here.