Hooded garden chairs on display at UB show

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer | Thursday March 15, 2007 00:00

'We in the FET believe that we must connect science and technology with ordinary people; that is the reason for this exhibition,' explained an organiser, Zoran Markovic, a lecturer in FET's Department of Industrial Design and Technology.

The exhibition began with a public lecture on design at the Centre for Continuing Education's lecture hall at UB on Tuesday. 'We want to introduce ourselves as widely as possible so that parents can see for themselves what their children can do,' Markovic said.  Through the inventions made by the students, he explained, UB is committed to producing a generation of world-class architects, designers and engineers.

On display are fashion designs, bee-shaped study lamps and hooded garden chairs by the Department of Industrial Design.

He characterised the designs of students of architecture as 'better than the designs of those houses in Block 5 and Block 7 here in Gaborone. It is students who did all these designs; ours' was only to guide them.'

The Director of UB Foundation Dr Joseph Tsonope said a countrywide series of celebrations will run up to October 23.