#siyazama

[lulwazi]

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[intlwomenshealth]

This project enables rural traditional craftswomen from KwaZulu-Natal to express their concerns about AIDS and all of its complexities through their beautiful beaded cloth dolls. The project and its producers communicate and spread awareness on HIV/AIDS through creative workshops, local and international exhibitions, museum collections and research activities.

Professor Kate Wells, Senior Design Lecturer at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) leads the project. This project was grown out of DUT's Department of Visual Communication Design in the Graphic Design Programme, National Research Foundation (NRF) funded niche area ‘Appropriate Design Education for Sustainable Development' under the focus area of ‘Design, Health and Community'.

You will find us on site in the Graphic Design Programme on the City Campus of the Durban University of Technology DUT in Durban KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

[shannonbrinkley]

In anticipation of the African continent's largest design show, the Design Indaba, featuring in March, we stumbled across this beautiful artwork displayed in a design show in Milan last year.  The beaded vases are better known as Story Vases and are a testament to the lives of the women who carefully craft their words into beaded form.  We couldn't not share this amazing work, seeing as it's a ingenious collaboration fostered between Swedish design collective Front and the Kwa-Zulu Natal women's entrepreneurial initiative Siyazama Project.  Read more about the work created here.

Image Credits: Design Indaba