Partners in Ghana:
• Suame Magazine Industrial Development Organisation (SMIDO). SMIDO has made available a workshop with a manufacturing supervisor, who is responsible for the manufacturing process and supervises the contractors participating in this process.
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi
• Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ghana
• United Pension Trustee Ghana
Partners in The Netherlands:
The project is supported by a variety of social and civil organizations in the Netherlands. We received grants for the project from four organizations:
• Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
• Centrum Beeldende Kunsten Rotterdam
• Stichting Doen
Sponsoring:
• Royal Burger group, AEL, Company de Fruitiere arranged the entire shipment and importation of the Turtle 1 from GH to NL (2013)/NL to GH (2015)
• Xelvin BV made the return of the Turtle 1 possible in 2015 with a sponsor cheque.
Partners Research Program:
• Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, department Designlab – Cynthia Hathaway
• Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam,department Fine Art – Rolf Engelen
• Immanuel Sirron Kakpur
• Xelvin BV
• HAN Automotive
• V2_
Publication Turtle1 – Building a car in Africa:
• Paradox & Verlag Kettler – Publishers
• Melle Smets & Joost van Onna – Authors
• Teun Vonk – Photography
• Melle Smets, Joost van Onna, Warna Oosterbaan – Text
• Ko Sliggers – Design
• Hellen Peters & Bas Vroege – Art direction
Promotion Team Turtle 1:
• Melle Smets – project direction
• Joost van Onna – project direction
• Teun Vonk – photographer & video documentation
• Eva van Ginhoven – press & media, co- funding & – webdesign
• Pascal de Man – web design & realisation
• Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo – Advisor S.M.I.D.O.
Independant Journalism:
• Tijs van den Boomen for Fosfor publishers
Many thanks to:
• Iztok Klančar – (editor) & Mat Wijn (sound) trailer ’13: Turtle 1: De auto uit Afrika
• Peter Michiel Schaap
• Joris Lindhout
• Maaike Gouwenberg
• Jan de Bruin – video@ Voordekunst.nl