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Re(de)fining boundaries: on art, deafness and maternity in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-05-06)
This study has explored Deaf Gain as a platform for activism, with the employment of sign language as Deaf culture and the Deaf female voice as a voice of reason, in the production of graphic and multimedia art, while ...
Social sustainability and the Ugandan Haute Couture Visual Aesthetic: articulating the contemporary value of past traditions.
(Makerere University, 2022-05-10)
The stride backwards to move forward exhibited by contemporary Ugandan haute
couture artefacts amidst modern fashion aesthetic innovations, has repositioned past traditions
as constructive in the contemporary 21st ...
Embodying social being
(Almas Art Foundation, 2023)
Nabulime is distinctive as an artist whose practice is concerned with traditional and
contemporary sculptural values, but who also engages directly with pressing social
issues. Since 2001 she has been developing a body ...
An investigation into the performance of art and design students in Art history. The case of National Teachers’ College Mubende
(Makerere University, 2022-04)
This research analysed the factors that affect art education student’s performance in Art history among at National Teachers’ College Mubende. A descriptive research design was employed in which purposive and simple random ...
Public art in Uganda: on the dialectics of social closure for monuments in Kampala Capital City Authority, 1914-2014
(Makerere University, 2023-06)
In this study, I argued that Public Art in Uganda created the legacy of Monuments under the influence of Kampala Capital City Authority as historical products that glorified power relations in the context of social closure. ...
My granary my home: haute couture reinterpretation as a framework for intellectual knowledge dissemination
(Makerere Institute of Heritage Conservation and Restoration, 2020-11)
The progression of fashion artifacts into a knowledge dissemination platform in the era of dynamic visual media, offers an inclusive pathway towards a probable realization of global agendas. Through intellectual engagement, ...
Coding narratives associated with mnemonic objects: Embedding photographs with technologies for contemporary photography space
(Makerere University, 2023)
Despite the influence of photography as a tool for archival and documentation of moments, over the years family albums become presentations and not representations, as the originators (chroniclers) of archives transition ...
Designing sonko: an interactive game application exploring visual communication through user experience/user interface design based on child labour
(Makerere University, 2023-11-22)
This study explored the role of interactive design, specifically user experience/user interface (UX/UI and game) design, in disseminating information about child labour focusing on scrap collection as a case study. It ...
Contemporary Ganda Catholic visual art: an analysis of its transitions and manifestations
(Makerere University, 2023-08)
This study focused on the transitions and manifestations of contemporary Ganda Catholic visual art in Buganda from 1879 to the present, focusing on the visual art works of the churches in Buganda. Africanisation in the ...
Paper bead[ing] as agency: shaping women’s subjectivities and the practice of jewelry-making in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2023-11)
In this study I interrogated the premise that paper bead[ing] is a site of agency that women beaders use to [re]constitute their subjectivities in ways that informed a jewelry enterprise as both knowledge production and ...