Visiting Program: the visitors

The SUD2010 is approaching rapidly and the list of people who have confirmed their visit to the SUD2010 in Douala, Cameroon, by invitation of Doual’art and ICU art projects is growing. The following people have comfirmed their stay:

• Lard Buurman, photographer (the Netherlands) 
• Ingrid Commandeur, editor/art critic/publisher (the Netherlands) (couldn't make it eventually)
• Jan Jongert, architect, 2010 architecten (the Netherlands) 
• Kaleb de Groot, artist (the Netherlands)
• Bart-Jan Hooft, architect, RAW foundation (South Africa / the Netherlands)
• Geert Hutsebaut, artist/designer (Belgium/the Netherlands) 
• Hans Kennepohl, journalist/philosopher (the Netherlands) 
• Arie van Ziel, 2010 architecten (the Netherlands) 
• Berend van der Lans, editor ArchiAfrika (the Netherlands)
• Calanne Moroney, architect, RAW foundation (Ireland/the Netherlands) 
• Xandra Nibbeling, communications manager and cultural producer (the Netherlands)
• Arno van Roosmalen, director Stroom (the Netherlands)
• Wim Schepens, documentary maker/VPRO (the Netherlands) 
• Kamiel Verschuren, artist (the Netherlands)

Competition BLUEPRINTS OF PARADISE: imagine future built Africa!

Africa is planning for the future. Some projects, like the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, affect the entire world. Others, like the works of Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, Doual’art, or the team of Takako Tajima and Aziza Chaouni, are locally focused.

With BLUEPRINTS OF PARADISE, the Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal) and African Architecture Matters (Utrecht), two organizations based in the Netherlands, have recently launched a great and challenging competition in which the new generation of African architects, artists and visionairies are given the opportunity to present their thoughts and plans for the future of built Africa: Africa’s Next Top Model? Further information can be found at www.afrikamuseum.nl/blog.

To turn BLUEPRINTS OF PARADISE into a successful event and to collect as many presentations as possible of future aspirations we are looking for as many participants as possible for this great and challenging competition.

The presentations must be submitted before the competition deadline of 15 October 2010.
Please register yourself and find more information at www.afrikamuseum.nl/blog!