Vuka Design

Contact person: Paola Riemann
Address: P.O. Box 3628, Cresta 2118, South Africa
Fax; 011 782 7331
Vuka Design works at the Johannesburg School for the Deaf, training youths in blacksmithing and other crafts. Besides this, they supervise a network of woman who are working with paper craft. It is founded and run by Paola Riemann.
Paola Riemann has been interested in the Connectivity idea since hearing about it some time before the Kgotla Conference, where she then attended a workshop given by Valentin Vollmer. She gave a workshop in blacksmithing herself at that conference and has done numerous workshops and organised a variety of traing programmes in various crafts, but predominantly in metalwork. She is currently completing her Master’s in Sculpture.
She is interested in being part of, and helping to coordinate meetings to set up the network that is to organise the Connectivity conference. Besides this she wishes to be part of the network that is putting together the Craft Village.