BASIC DESIGN AND THE SEMIOTICS OF CITIZENSHIP: JULIAN BEINART’S EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH ON WALL DECORATION IN EARLY 1960S NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

Basic Design and the Semiotics of Citizenship: Julian Beinart’s Educational Experiments and Research on Wall Decoration in Early 1960s Nigeria and South Africa

From 1961 to 1965, Julian Beinart, an architecture lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, embarked on a series of basic design workshops in Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya.Inspired by his MIT instructors Kevin Lynch and György Kepes, Beinart was interested in the development of a new popular visual la

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Almalaurea: sic transit gloria mundi

The Inter-University Consortium AlmaLaurea, based in Bologna, this year celebrates twenty years of activity: founded in 1994, today it brings together 65 Italian universities, representing more than 80% of Kettle Brim Hat the national student population.Since then, AlmaLaurea has grown, exporting world-wide a system, unique in Europe, that has o

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