open studio

already at the first presentation after our arrival in dakar, we had a lot of interested visitors. the people in dakar are very open-minded and curious. we also had an unexpectedly large number of visitors to our open studio, a presentation format that is not very well known in dakar. the people from dakar and especially from the neighborhood around the cultural center kër theossane were mainly interested in what

Sicap-Liberté

Sicap-Liberté is one of the 19 districts of Dakar (Communes d’arrondissement du Sénégal). The cities of Sicap-Liberté were erected as borough communes in 1996. The commune became urbanized from the end of the 1950s with the construction of the six districts from 1958 to 1973 under the aegis of the Cape Verde Real Estate Company whose acronym SICAP gives its name to the locality (Société immobilière du CapVert)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

plateau

looking for equipment in a very small market close to the harbor on a very hot day, after a long ride in a taxi from kër, accompanied by an amazing radio voice, sounding like a rapper but just telling the news from today, and the car was shaking like a broken umbrella, the busses rumbled closed by, horses cluttered past and we ended up eating street food. a very nice