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Maxwell Mutanda (born 1983) is a Zimbabwean artist, designer, design researcher, and cofounder of the design firm Studio [D] Tale, based out of London, Harare, and Cape Town, South Africa.[1] Mutanda uses collage and architectural practice to make sustainable participatory design.
Early life and education
Born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1983,[1] Mutanda studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London,[2] where he met Studio [D] Tale’s business partner, Safia Qureshi. In 2020 he received an MSc in Sustainable Urban Development Sheehan Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
Career
Online magazine Design Indaba writes that Studio [D] Tale “experiments across disciplines with a portfolio that includes architecture, urban exploration, production innovation to critical design and communications.”[3] The firm designed vendor upgrades for Harare street vendors in 2016.[4][5] The same year, It was working a way to create "pop-up churches" inspired by Catholics in the Philippines holding mass in empty malls.[4]
Mutanda received a fellowship from IdeasCity New Orleans, an initiative of the New Museum in New York, the Africa’sOut! Artist-in-Residence at Denniston Hill, New York (2018), and the British Council’s ColabNowNow Residency, in Maputo, Mozambique.[1] In 2020 he received an Eyebeam fellowship to study the "mobile data gap in sub-Saharan Africa".[6]
Exhibitions
Mutanda's work was featured at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France, both in 2015. In addition, the work of Studio [D] Tale was in the Oslo Architecture Triennale in Oslo, Norway in 2019, the Biennale Architettura, Venice in 2014 and 2016, the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the London Design Festival in 2015.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Maxwell Mutanda". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 28 September 2020.
- ↑ "Bartlett alumni to participate in Chicago Architecture Biennial". The Bartlett School of Architecture. 1 May 2015.
- ↑ "Maxwell Mutanda: Multi-talented architect Maxwell Mutanda uses design to address real-world issues". Design Indaba.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kuo, Lily (27 April 2016). "A Zimbabwean architect builds for the "forgotten economy" by letting people design for themselves". Quartz.
- ↑ "A cross-continental architecture studio with solutions for Harare's informal traders". Design Indaba.
- ↑ Small, Zachary (15 July 2020). "How Artists Are Trying to Solve the World's Problems". The New York Times.
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