Author Archives: Melle Smets

Turtle 1: The Sequel

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The Turtle 1: The Sequel is a big success!

After a fruitful in-depth discussion on the future of the Turtle project on Friday 7 march, the Museum night was a great celebration of its achievements so far. Over 1000 people saw the project on one evening, and most of them really took their time to understand its motivation, context and underlying System D logic.

We thank V2_ for hosting and investing in the Turtle project. We thank Azongo to represent SMIDO for flying all the way over from Ghana to do such a splendid job presenting the importance of the project to the development of Suame Magazine.

See the video of the expert meeting

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Rotterdam-based artist Melle Smets and sociologist Joost van Onna followed the trail of discardedWestern car parts and ended up in a place called Suame Magazine in Ghana, where this scrap is processed and marketed by some 200,000 highly specialized technicians in 12,000 informal workshops. Smets and Onna turned this trail to Suame completely around and together with the local mechanics of Suame Magazine produced the first car to ever

be exported from this region to the West. Once even the King of Ghana visited Suame Magazine to see it with his own eyes, it was clear to the Ghanaian media:These European ‘benefactors’ will bring Ghana a car industry. Can Smets and Onna meet such high expectations? V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media presents their answers in the exhibition Turtle 1: The Sequel.

Turtle at Indaba design fare

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“Africa is Tradition” is one of the of the five themes explored in the “Africa is Now” exhibition at the Design Indaba Expo 2014.

The Turtle 1 is part of the selected works.

Design Indaba expo

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29 nov t/m 2 dec Turtle 1@ Autosalon Rotterdam

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De eerste editie van AutoSalon Rotterdam vindt plaats van 29 november tot en met 2 december in Ahoy Rotterdam. AutoSalon Rotterdam is de nieuwe ontmoetingsplek voor mensen met een passie voor auto’s. De brede beurs biedt daarnaast een veelvoud aan auto gerelateerde producten en diensten en een verrassend aanbod aan luxe lifestyle presentaties.

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