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THE ROLE OF VALUE ADDED TECHNOLOGY AND SKILLS TRANSFER AS A VISUAL ASPECT IN INDIGENOUS SOUTH AFRICAN RURAL CERAMIC DESIGN AND DECORATION. (Ref #99)
- Date:
- 20-09-2006 07:57:06
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Accepted with revisions
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- 7
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- ABSTRACT
The aim of value added technology and skills transfer is to evaluate the prospects of various facets within indigenous ceramic production and how it influences identified rural potters by new means of communication and empowerment. Cardew (1976:221) during his years in West Africa where he was involved in the production of ceramic ware by indigenous people, puts his aims on a more progressive kind of development to facilitate a healthier kind of adaptation or transition, an action describe by him what normally takes place when changes in the environment or in the style of living threaten a craft with obsolescence. The prospects of technology and skills transfer will be discussed as measurement to provide the rural potters of South Africa with added knowledge and technical skills to produce higher quality ceramic ware and to work as self-sustainable studio potters.
This paper will review and elaborate on existing traditional indigenous and contemporary designs (due to skills transfer interventions), decorations and forms of existing ceramic ware produced by the Basotho, Tswana, Bapedi and Venda people of South Africa. This paper will also reflect on some research conducted in the Qwa-Qwa / Eastern Free State, North West and Limpopo regions in South Africa. Research in ceramic science and design as well as indigenous knowledge systems and skills transfer can provide information to satisfy the need for technical knowledge, training and skills development for economic growth among traditional rural potters.
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