Aga Khan Humanities Project
Design Centre
The Design
Centre was created in 1999 on the initiative of the Aga
Khan Trust for Culture to design the AKHP curriculum materials
for partner universities.
About the Design
Centre
The Design
Centre promotes innovative initiatives, develops new projects
and provides courses on design. The core activity of the Design
Centre has been to design the AKHP curriculum
materials. The Design Centre also develops websites and
materials that raise the profile of Central Asian arts and
culture.
In 2001, the Design Centre's web site
about the Badakhshan region of Tajikistan, "Chakhma", won
‘Discovery of the year’ award at the Tajikistan National
Internet Awards. In cooperation with AKHP students, more
websites are planned on the cultures of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
and Tajikistan in the future.
Presentations developed in
the Design Centre have been shown around the world. In 2003,
for example, the Design Centre was commissioned by UNDP to
design parts of their National Human Development Report for
Tajikistan, whilst in 2004, the Ministry of Communications of
Tajikistan ordered a series of postcards to be made by the
Design Centre.
Work
Publications, ranging from text typing to final
printing, are another sphere of the Centre’s activity.
In 2002, AKHP’s Design Centre published Traditional Tajik
Theatre by Tajik author Nizom Nurjanov. The Centre has
extensive experience in working with interactive multimedia
programmes. A Journey to Khorog is an example of this
type of work. Work is also being done in restoring old and
damaged photographs. A website about the Pamirs, the eastern region
of Tajikistan, was created by the Design Centre in 2003. The
Design
Centre was also commissioned to create the official website
for the Dushanbe
International Fresh Water Forum, held in
August/September 2003.
In the
future, the Design Centre will provide design services for
international agencies in Tajikistan. This direction of work
has already begun and can be seen on the UN's website with the
Tajikistan National
Human Development Report 2003 and
Moving Mountains pages.
Contact
Information
Mikhail
Romanyuk, Manager
Design Centre
Aga Khan Humanities
Project
75 Tolstoy Street
Dushanbe
734000
Tajikistan
Email:
design@akhp.org
Tel.:
(992 372) 245297/245823
Fax: (992 372)
510128
