African Design Magazine December 2014 | Page 10

Zambian Art & Design Show December 7 Leopards Hill Polo Crosse Club, Lusaka, Zambia www.zambianartanddesignshow.org This year’s Zambian Art and Design Show (ZADS) is scheduled to take place on Sunday, December 7, 2014 and the show has attracted over 60 exhibitors. The Zambian Art and Design Show, whose aim is to bring together Zambian artists and designers to showcase their works before their would-be potential buyers that include both local and international visitors, and has started rece iving positive response from artists, designers and companies wishing to exhibit. Zambian Art and Design Show is a fair that allows Zambian craftsmen to bring their best handmade works in furniture, kitchen ware, jewelry, recycled fashion and hand woven rugs and textiles. It is an avenue used to help people in the creative industry to share ideas and knowledge, to do business in the same environment and have the ability to network among themselves. 2007 was the first year of the Zambian Arts and Design Show, although at that time it was a simple Christmas Fair in the back garden at Sugarbush Farm. The little show was such a success that in 2008 an enormous marquee was rented and invited some 40 exhibitors. Around 1 500 visitors attended. As a result, the Zambian Arts and Design Show (ZADS) was born and a committee formed, and with this the show became a much more professional event which in 2010 was held at the Leopards Hill Polo Crosse Club, 2011-2013 at the LusakaP olo fields and in 2014 will be held back at Leopards Hill Polo Crosse club on Chifwema Road, a fantastic venue which is able to cope with the 2000 plus visitors they are expecting. ZADS has become a much anticipated annual event and certainly the single best opportunity to see and buy the very best of Zambia’s quality products. 10 africandesignmagazine.com Management of The Heritage Sites December 13-15 Alexandria, Egypt http://www.ierek.com/events/heritagemanagement-arcgaeological-multispectralimage/ This workshop will use the basic text book, Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space (Comer and Harrower, 2013). Students have the option of reading the book prior to the course; alternately, they can use the book as a reference during and after the course. Software: They will use the freeware, QGIS, during the course to demonstrate integration of aerial and satellites images into geographical information systems, enhancement and analysis of imagery, integration of enhanced and analysis of images, and interpretation use of all images. QGIS should be loaded and installed on all computers prior to the course. If students wish, they can download and install the software on their personal laptop prior to the course, and continue using it after the course. Workshop Objectives: In general this workshop will deal with the technologies employed in aerial and satellite remote sensing and the analytical and interpretive approaches that are of greatest use to archaeologists and archaeological heritage managers today. These will be described, and instructive examples of how they have been used will be provided. Topics covered in the workshop: 1. Historic Air and Spaceborne Imagery. 2. Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery. 3. SAR. (Synthetic Aperture Radar) 4. LiDAR. (Light Detection and Ranging) 5. Archaeological Site Detection and Modeling.