Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

The challenges towards the emergence of an African higher design education: case study of a French design diploma relocated to Benin

Caroline Grellier
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In October 2019, Francophone Africa's first graduating design school opened its doors in Cotonou, Benin. A French private design school, chosen by a Beninese government agency, carried the project and recruited me to create and run the school. For nearly three years, as an observer-participant, I fulfilled the mission of delocalizing the French diploma to Benin, which acts as a normative instrument. Although the project responds to a market, this approach produces a double effect: the importation of a French pedagogical culture, but also of a French design culture in Benin. As design education in French-speaking Africa emerges, and as international design research simultaneously focuses on decolonising design and design education through a pluriversal lens, this case study aims to analyse the issues at stake in this model of design education in Benin, which is already paving the way for a multiplication in the coming years.

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hal-04778211 , version 1 (18-11-2024)

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Caroline Grellier. The challenges towards the emergence of an African higher design education: case study of a French design diploma relocated to Benin. 15th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Oct 2023, Bilbao, Spain. pp.308-317, ⟨10.5151/ead2023-2SAO-01Full-04Caroline-Grellier⟩. ⟨hal-04778211⟩

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