Trinidad & Tobago Design Network
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This presentation was done for the Caribbean Design Network on the formation of a Trinidad and Tobago Design Network. The presentation documents notes and ideas from a meeting between Lesley-Ann Noel, Robert Young, Gary Turton, Keith Cadette, Dean Arlen and Rubadiri Victor.
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- 1. Trinidad & Tobago ! Design Network Lesley-Ann Noel Visual Arts Lecturer Department of Creative & Festival Arts The University of the West Indies
- 2. Design in ! Trinidad & Tobago
- 3. Design in Trinidad & Tobago - Above
- 4. Design in Trinidad & Tobago - Above
- 5. Design in Trinidad & Tobago - Draconian Switch
- 6. Design in Trinidad & Tobago - Fashion Week
- 7. Design in Trinidad & Tobago - Indigroove
- 8. Design in Trinidad & Tobago - TTIA
- 9. Department of ! Creative and Festival Arts! The University of the West Indies! St. Augustine • Visual Arts • Theatre Arts • Music • Dance • Carnival Studies
- 10. Undergraduate • Fine Arts – Painting – Sculpture – Ceramics – Contemporary Art / Installation – Art Education • Design – Animation – Surface Design – Graphic Design – Costume Fabrication – Introduction to Product Design Post-graduate • Dip. ACEM - Arts & Cultural Enterprise Management • MA - Design Entrepreneurship (Sept 2010)
- 12. Initial TTDN Network • Formed in May 2009 - after Guyana Meeting • Virtual Network, building on existing UWI Design Network on Facebook of past and present students, professionals and artists • Used as a method of communication for events, opportunities, UWI Design projects etc. • 164 members
- 14. New Network Formation • Formalised with a meeting/ collaboration between: – University of the West Indies - Visual Arts Unit Lesley-Ann Noel & Keith Cadette – Trinidad & Tobago Institute of Architects Gary Turton – Fashion Association of Trinidad & Tobago - Claudia Pegus – Artists Coalition of Trinidad & Tobago Rubadiri Victor – Independent Artist Activist Dean Arlen
- 15. Structure • Student and Professional Network • Student Executive & Professional Executive, – Student Exec - operations, – Professional Exec - vision and mentorship • By invitation or Student ID needed for membership • Secretariat at DCFA UWI
- 16. Strategies • Membership: – Collaboration with existing networks - TTIA, FATT, ACTT – Student recruitment - UWI, UTT, COSTATT, SBCS – Significant student participation on operational level to ensure continuity, vibrancy etc.
- 17. Strategies • Projects: – Develop project list to promote design profession and design agenda of individuals and partner organisations – Strengthen and support / endorse member projects
- 18. Challenges • Maintaining active membership interest and participation • Imported design products and services
- 19. National Academy for the Performing Arts Queens Park Savannah Port of Spain
- 20. Opportunities • New public interest in designed spaces and objects • Sophistication of the marketplace • New design institutions & programmes - – Fashion & Accessories, Animation - UTT, – Jewelry - COSTAAT, – Graphic Design - SBCS, – Film, Urban Planning, Tropical Landscaping - UWI
- 21. Projects • Design PA Campaign – promoting local design - architects, fashion, graphic, animation etc. • Documentation of local Design history – project to document indigenous design traditions - craft, architecture, Carnival etc. • National Design Centre/ Design Lab – Lab for exploratory studio work combining design theory, research and practice
- 22. Projects • Creation of Design texts – In local craft and design • Design Awards – Rewarding past and present excellence in Design • Design Activism – Lobby for greater governmental support for and use of local design services. • Design IP Awareness Project – Project to educate designers and public on Intellectual Property issues.
- 23. Activities • Carnival Design Initiative / – Residency / Workshop Street Festival • Claudia Pegus (Feb 10) • National Design Symposium / series of talks - – 1 day Conference • Dean Arlen & DCFA UWI (Mar/ Apr 10) • Annual networking event – Awards, Social Event and Exhibition (Dec 2010)