The iLabs@MAK Project will be hosting the 3rd annual Science and Technology Innovations Challenge this year. This event will bring together schools from around the country in a competition where secondary school students present their different Robotics innovations. These Secondary School Students schools will each present robotic application projects under the theme “Agricultural Transformation, The Role...Read More

The innovation of bark cloth paper and its use in art work, coupled together with different research and experiments with alternative, organic materials for canvas such as grass, sisal, sugar cane husks and maize covers. This was the innovative art work showcased at the Art and Community Exhibition, by artist, Mathias Tusiime. Art and the...Read More

The four-dayKampala International Design Conference 2015 has called for more research and solutions to design sources, processes and systems. The Conference convened under the theme “Design Unlimited, to explore how indigenous design processes and systems can interfere in ever increasing demands of globalisation” brought together scholars from different parts of the world to share their...Read More

making sculptures from construction materials such as bricks and wood. This form of art has come to characterize the works of Dr Lilian Nabulime and Prof Andrew Burton from the University of New Castle. The exhibition, which opened on July 16, 2015 explored the use of local materials such as brooms, wood and brushes as...Read More

The January-June 2015 Newsletter is here. Download a copy and read about all the activities that took place in CEDAT during the 1st half of 2015. Ranging from staffing changes, New research findings, Graduation, workshops, exhibitions and much more. Jan-june 2015 newsletterDownloadRead More

The Department of Architecture and Physical Planning, on March 18th, 2015 hosted a team of officials from Kampala City Council Authority. The purpose of the visit was for KCCA officials to familiarise themselves with some of the research project ideas that the students had  in regards to how best the authority can deal with garbage...Read More

CEDAT Principal Handing over the Ekisaakate designs to the Nnabageraka Emphasis was, on Thursday May 21, 2015, on knowledge transfer partnerships as CEDAT handed over Architectural Designs of the Ekisaakaate Kya Nnabagereka Centre of Excellence (The Royal Enclosure) to the Nnabagereka. “We had many international organisations bidding to design the Ekisaakaate but, as an organisation...Read More

United States Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation awarded to the Institute of Heritage Conservation and Restoration Art lovers on April 30, 2015 gathered at the Makerere Art Gallery to celebrate a partnership the Gallery has with the US Embassy in Uganda. The US Embassy in 2012 started funding the documenting of Art pieces, improving storage...Read More

The Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, together with History in Progress Uganda on 14th May 2015 opened a unique Photography exhibition and launched two books, Ebishushani 2 and Ebishushani 3, showcasing work from two Ugandan photographers: Musa Katuramu and Elly Rwakoma. Musa Katuramu, 1913-1986, was a carpenter, a constructor of houses and...Read More

Students of Biomedical Engineering at Makerere University will get a chance to access online resources from Duke University in the US, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions. This was agreed upon in a meeting on Thursday May 14, 2015. The delegation from Duke University was accompanied by a team...Read More