We will complete critical projects initiated by past administration – Lalong
We will complete critical projects initiated by past administration – Lalong
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has assured the people of the state that his administration would complete all critical projects initiated by his predecessor Jonah Jang in spite of dwindling resources.
Lalong made the disclosure in an interactive session with Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists as part of activities to mark his 53rd birthday in Jos.
laser print, glue, mylar, indian ink, repair lacquer
app. 21 X 30 - 35 cm
The material for these collages was simply xerox-printed images from a mobile phone camera, accompanied with the ink-drawn talks and self-reflections triggered by amazing people I met during a short stay in St.Petersburg in 2013.
Master's Thesis Work (2012) for Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Industrial and Strategic Design Study Program:
The Everyday Womanhood - A Methodological Journey to an Entwined Process
The abstract goes as follows:
Nonetheless, in addition to conducting a case study, theoretical groundings for entwining the processes are unearthed. The theoretical reasoning consists of locating ideological and epistemological confluence, ultimately resulting in a methodologically consistent framework.
On the other hand, the thesis is an enquiry into a subject matter with a feminist undertone. The author has been discovering the topic also earlier within her artistic practitioning, and now, the theme of everyday womanhood is taken as a starting point for the entwined process. This originally subjective interest is transformed into a collective account of knowledge through applying several participatory methods. The involvement of multiple methods aids in discovering and sensitizing the designer to her initial topic, and makes it converge and crystallize so that the core theme becomes easier to grasp and apply in a design context.
The utilised methods capitalize on inclusive and emancipatory ideologies that can be coupled due to their partly common predecessors, which are also revealed during the study. The case study concludes with critical concepts or scenarios presenting hypothetical designs that also match with these ideologies. The final concepts still include the primary interest in the multitude of experiences of womanhood, but develop the starting point according to the findings and responses achieved and gathered from the participants in the different phases of the study.
The context of research within the thesis is mostly within constructive design research, but it is further enriched with both feminist and artistic methodology, whose compatibility is justified both on a theoretical and practical level. The main goal for the work is to demonstrate the positive gains that utilizing the full creative potential of a designer can yield. It aims at stretching the concept of designerly methodologies, and reclaiming the designer’s personal artistic potential. Moreover, the thesis is a subjective journey for establishing an identity of a designer – a designer who situates empowerment, transformation, and in general critical reflection in the core of her practitioning.
