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find out how edna's mendez, he is changing the narrative for interior design in malawi. we then see how he says to from cameroon, on making traditional german journals with african fabric time values that day, and this is f re max. oh, oh, for a future ism is it makes of sy fy history fantasy and african culture that looked at the future of people of african descent, introducing a man who has read the nurse and isaac product design in my area with as john read why is awful features and the next trend in 2 design, we are consortia. see

a young designer and founder of p k would walk an art history. i feel like, since we're taking away from africa. and there was sort of a pause in the development of african culture features and they started right centers on black history and culture and incorporate science fiction technology and futuristic into literature music and the visual arts of features and is a movement that takes from what is africa and what is african and excuses? it's with what is in contemporary culture. it's a collection of all this elements from my forefathers and my father's and making me something that works with my own settings. to create something that would benefit africans of benefits the world at large. this which i call the lines

through currently says not to, to viewed one of our favorite products, which is the kind of vintage from the try. put fun. i feel like, oh my very personal to me because they do different stories at different points in my life. but the one that i've been angry deep in my heart is the glass version of the binge watch. the game popular among the group of people of with the name area is a game that requires a lot of brain power. a margin particles kill are your is leading kothwood in box containing 12 polls, 6 holes on each side, and 4 to eat. 4 seats in each school. so the idea for me was to cover the problem of balance. the are you on the, on one side and a magazine order on the other side just to create them by the same time. also,

as on a static piece for any, any living space that will definitely work in the park, i started afro futuristic product design as a journey. it's not something i just decided to kill. let me start designing african inspired products. i was working at a client's space and had a need for a product that got to work for the space. and then i decided ok, this need is actually not just my need. there are a lot of other people that are looking for something that resonates with them because what we design goes beyond what we just see, this is the, the breeze. and this is the car is, is just basic shape right now. we're still going to find to need to have all this finally finished edges to place that equally appealing majorly. the material i use are would initially i started with disposed to would that pain

that inputted goods or i recently changed the kind of would i use to look how would cause of the narrative i'm trying to drive more. i've explored other materials like plexiglas. i've explored metal i've explored so many of the materials will be simply like president bush is designed, assuming the all in protocol. he takes pride in fact that the growth awful, futuristic art has grown. art collectors, dementia are not holding the money to people such art. i see something i find interesting. i take a picture. i just archive. it's the fun place i started as a need for a space coming up with ideas is just a supernatural process story telling that spiritual, oh,

that's in oh distance. how, what she gets with an african design. so this is a completely assembled piece of the chart foot, fund it. so this is the fund and it goes on top of this to right. and i'm just looking to perfect. my product gets into different pieces by to meet the rights audience. this is basically for the fun looks like it has been decrease to make my best seller as the fun. i put it up on my system. we don't wanna pay asking if anybody was interested in buying. i put out a pre order. i listened on my social media. i mean to these actually sold out the 10 funds that made absolutely over 150 units of their fun in the space of 2 years apart from product design, i paint i function in the art space of fashion space, the the engineering space. thank you. so i'm really limited by ox style or by medium or by industry or any of this things. the concept of our full feature is an

aims to break from western what do any t, even the african artist, voices speak and apart from too expensive to african and visual choice to casey and his product designs are in the forefront of these movement. ready today about the 10 year anniversary of the invest take a town out fan. the largest contain pri, outfit in africa, held in cape town with a 106 exhibit, says it attracts 23000 visitors and is a platform for international art professionals to connect them now joined by loud vinci. the are they direct sat, lar, lovely, to see you hopefully, larry, to see you now, can you just tell us a little bit about the autopay? what's it on about? so we celebrate that won't change any very city of this year. so it's an important here, the ferris started very humbly, was the local fair, very small, and then it grew like exponentially over the years that is the town,

the most importance. and the biggest are fear of contemporary arts in africa. beautiful. and this year's theme is time. can you tell us a little bit more about the field? yeah, so we thought is that pays anywhere 3. so is the right time to reflect on time annually it will say to our, to raters that define, please answer whatever you want. and of course it has to be consistent. so the answer in different way we have like an answer to time for tomorrow. today, that is related to how feelings and affections are reflects the past enough time that is for the emergence section or the different answer from different media to the concept of time. so moving forward in terms of the future, the odd fe, where's your vision at? where do you see it going?

so 1st you will want to become bigger and larger. back in may vision, it is to become a hap, it has to become something that will activate the city for at least one or 2 weeks . so we're really wanting gauge with the local community. we look any situation we museum art is to create to like an exciting week. thank you so much lauer for stopping by and having a word with us. they get better. a group of for, in cycling through johannesburg has now become a thriving business that reclaims the streets and brings people from diverse backgrounds together. ah, reclaiming the street. that's what urban cycling is all about. urban cycling feels like the biggest adventure. when you like the kid

does, the visits capture his like gear and venture and your kid is riding around as sort of shortly cycling is looked upon as a mode of transport because it's usually low as a thing that people do, you know, and not what the typical board controls person would do the reason i think we should get more people on bikes, is because of health benefits. a green economy and bits is the teeth that we get to live in. you know, the less cause we have on the roads. the more people we have on bicycles makes, we're happy with

. it's ready to get more people on bicycles. young, small old, black, white colored foresters, everybody a bicycle. that's what differentiates as it is. it's our diversity we have a meeting point where we speak about the route we're going to take and we either cycle in, so it'll always cycle in the cpd. and we cycle out maybe stop some way, get a coffee or a drain, and we carry on cycling. and finally, end up at a nice restaurant. it's really just about getting together and social. ah, so was by can vendors you psycho as you are, you're riding for the destination and not the acts of a t. so we don't waste fenwick's or live crowd or anything like that. we come in jeans. we come in shorts. we come in anything that feels comfortable for us to

write it. it's like a mish mash. and the representation of what job looks like as a multi point started as regular training for better health and meeting as a group of a few best friends has now developed into regular social gatherings to unwind after work. i've seen people as many of them. it's never known each other and they lived in the same hood, meet on a bike ride and now the like the best of friends. all because of that, you know, and i think that coming together, bridge the gap between us as a people, i mean, i think, you know what the landscape of south africa looks like. and we like a microcosm of it. so we try to bring more people together to religious, find each other and see that they actually really all relate apart from cycling. the balance of pros at repairing maintaining and restoring bikes. even a new business idea with phone out of the group,

hiring our bicycle and getting you to doing city tours as well. but the focus is not on puppet fathom friendship. ah, since i made the guys from by the members and we started and joining their eyes, they definitely range from strangers to friends and yard. some of my best friends now. i made through cycling the goof off by king bandits, people who had actually joined us in the past years. they have changed my life quite drastically. i should say, you know, you become humble, the, you know, meeting new people and i'll be actually teach you of what they know and what you don't know. it's mostly humbled. you saying that i'm willing to learn and that's what i've actually loved quite a lot. yeah. the

bandits have come a long way and they're about to take over the streets of johannesburg with a nick gathering recently, we've taken over critical mass that happens on thursdays where we get everyone in a new one on a bicycle to ride in the city and then these will be please, like your brow and other parts of job that nobody would go to on any random day. it's not a thing that people think the idea is so that people know that job also belongs to them as well. and they should come back and visit and see, you know, it belongs to all of us. what a great way of exploring the city and making lifelong friendships now black representation in art is important because it promotes visibility, diversity and inclusion. whilst challenging stereotypes and empowering black

artists and a pioneering artist doing exactly that is as an denisha bella. hi randy, let tabitha, how are you? i am fantastic. being able to stand with in your group amongst all this color. i mean, you are one artist who is definitely breaking stereotypes and exposing and representing black women in art and in art history. tell us more about that. oh my so i think my desire to represent artist, black women in my arts is quite simple. and it stems from just engaging with our history and seeing the image that i was seeing, which was not very inclusive of the kind of black women. i think we need to see, especially in this particular time. and that's just black women living their everyday lives. and really just sharing different perspective to the desires themselves and maybe even the, the stuff that they sort of like desire or want to be. and i think that seeing that

there is, there was a bit of gap with the art history or painting that i was engaging with and the time now i just thought that it would be nice to sort of like to pick the kind of women that i would like to see yeah, absolutely. is that dealing now looking at your specific artwork and art piece and installation get today? what's your favorite and why? yeah, so i think in this particular booth or this body of work, my particular favorite berg is titled, or nana. i will, i'm clean b online and it is sort of like a depiction of myself and my family members, my mom, my grandmother and my younger brother. but i think the work is very, very much different from the work that i've been doing previously because it's different more i'm, you send terms of brush your and a bit more fine. that doesn't really take itself to seriously. and i think when i

was thinking about this particular work, especially in the context of this body of work, i was thinking to myself, how do we like if or not a younger me with to paint something or to pick something? what would it look like? and i think it would be very expressive and not very serious, but still very intentional. and yeah, i think of it as sort of like a love letter to myself and also a coming of age or woman now for, for myself. yeah. so that's my favorite piece on beautiful, thank you so much. then deena, for having me sitting accents with colors is also what makes a part of agnes. thank. as is where she has in herself with a task establishing interior design in malawi mellow. he's known for a lot of beautiful things we are known for. our leaks are beautiful kasha, a little beautiful people, but interior design is not one of them. and i'm here to change the narrative

with agnes bernezi. i'm allowing business woman who's setting a new bar for local interior design. this is some ada cafe slash restaurant. my client wanted something interesting with her space. she wanted the place to be very creative. she like bright colors and just she's an over creative person herself as well. i came up with him. so we did all this pattern in a very big bold colors like green's and, you know, there's black and we're, we just wanted this to be a future war. as you're coming into the restaurant, we wanted people to 1st see this design before they even get to go inside. we decided to include this beautiful landed on in also supporting our local artisans in malawi. we painted them black to sort of like tie in with the whole divine and

the feeling and the ambiance of the speakers wall. it's quite a beautiful piece and we decided to find that nitro roll from the ceiling down to a we're people can see it just to sort of like, tying the whole design to get it had 6 week to renovate this old house into a trendy modern cafe malawi, a net importer, which means that the cost of sa furnishings, in home decor item comes at a premium. sourcing, therefore requires innovation by working with local artisans and crafters. she's able to treat is both pieces for the space that she's working in. do you think you can actually find a fireplace here like that artificial? i don't to be defended locally, but you know that it's gonna take about maybe 2 weeks or a month. oh, okay. so we have for 6 botto and, and the for a place and,

and this is for going to time assist him and a tv. okay, let me just do a little scribbling here and then i'll show you what, what, what i can sketch from here. all right, and maybe i should see if it's gonna be proportional with your boxes as well. all right, what i started am my interior design business as a hobby, i started making cushions for friends and family and co workers. so i used to make them myself at 1st and then filled them to those people. and then afterwards i said it, i'm home innovations. that's when i started getting clients, i decided to add a little bit of pieces to this space. for example, i'm adding this little girl. what takes you, as you can see into that a little, my furniture is great, and i like to keep it on the base pena true. i don't like a place to just be blank. i just wanted you to have visual interest. so that's why

i brought in this little paper just to give you that i'm for your interest as well . i'll just driving around and i felt a little branches and i thought, well, that can be something privy. so that's what i like to do. i love to be innovative. i love to look outside. think outside the box when i'm when, when i'm thinking about interior design. oh oh i. i tried to put myself in mclean shoes. i have to think about bringing the vision to like their vision to life. i'm not my, i'm there to advice. if my client wants something that does not work with their space to advise them to change it out, but i am glad and like if you have plans that completely trust me and somehow my dad literally just told me that do whatever you like with the space so it's always nice to do to be trusted like that, but you always have to find a balance between your own personal style and, and the claims ah,

i have worked on a lot of home innovations. i have also worked on kathy's at new builds and also a luxury apartments i'm currently working on some luxury apartments. i've also worked in offices as well. so i can favor i work in a lot of areas for this doesn't fit in the esthetic off through. so i'd like to change it a little bit more modern. i do love the art itself, but it was damaged so it's not like registering any i'd. so i'm just trying to make some i'd out of this because i love to dear way. so let me show you what i can do with it. yeah. trying to make it lou labs areas like those kind of what you see in the hotel. so we start by discuss this whole m i p. m. mm.

mm. looking at that beautiful word of interior design is such as angry spend as he there is hope for a re imagined african aesthetic that is not only modern, but it's also authentically african with in theory design like that there is no stopping agnes when dazzling. now 2 sisters who are adding a unique touch to their creation, they create traditional jamie j says known as during dells from african fabrics and vibrant patterns as a nod to the birthplace. cameroon. this journal is made of colorful african fabrics been cut to look like traditional bavarian god. it's the work of sister's mother ye dental wish. and i'm a veteran from cameron. there label. no ne has been designing dental african since 2010 im unit 9. and whatever my mother was at taylor herself, and i come from

a dynasty of taylors, i crawled around in fabrics as a child. the fabric is what i know my mother used to, so my clothes and cameron, that's what we nails. alice was buchanan. the inspiration for they cross didn't come just from their mother, even their great grandmother and grandmother were tailors. and although the sisters have been living in germany for 40 years, they're still deeply connected to the african culture. that that's what i love about my work is that we connect people and i'm a connection myself. my father is occurred and my mother is from cameroon. and i connect, i don't divide added, i feel our work with journals is going in just the right direction. we use clothing to connect cultures and people who get withdrawn and equity mentioned. this has been in, in western africa after over a decade of producing journals in germany. the sisters moved their production to africa in 2022 had had any good offices. we never thought we'd actually produce

a journal in africa picking up is on that's really special to assume that it's been given. it's a traditional garment as well, and not at all easy to so this piping is very, very hard to integrate and that was the math and only our master tailors handle that issue. and it's so great that we really have a product here that is made in beginning made in beginning they worked together with a charity to have all the donors made in 90 town room in north western benning. here, young people who would normally struggle to access education, receive vocational training, the us to be able to do that. and the trainees learn the craft of tailoring the thunder and sewing eternal is of course an elite exercise and tailoring that's neither i what we offer is really an integrated work study training program at, at wiley hospitals as the steel the dental african is an article of clothing that connects together to coaches and 2 continents.

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