The second Latin American Origami Congress, Chile 2011

Origami Chile hosts its 6th Convention Origami to Santiago's Chile of August 25-27, 2011.

The Convention, Origami Chile will host a separate parallel event: the Congress of second Latin American Origami.

-The first Latin American Origami Congress took place in Bogotá in April 2010.

While the convention is adapted to teaching and sharing models of origami, Origami Congress is more conceptual and is distinguished by the following characteristics:

Main objective

To imagine new horizons for the development of Origami in Latin America on the basis of the current trend of creativity.

Other objectives include

To understand the current state of the art of Origami in Latin America.To encourage the creative process from the perspective of human emotion.To encourage the process of creation from the point of view of the current techniques of origami.To discuss ways to create origami with a distinctive flavour of Latin America.

ACTIVITIES

Main Conference
• "Paradox of the poet and empirical mathematics as sources of creation" (Isa Klein - Brasil)

Workshops
• Design with freedom (Aldo Marcel-Nicaragua)
• Design with Feeling (Isa Klein - Brasil)
• Design with geometry (Nicolás Gajardo-Chile)

Round table
• Feeling vs Technique

Presentations
• Network design. Exhibition (Eric Gjerde-USA)
• Organic sensitivity in design. Conference (Michael Kaiser-Chile)
• Complications of Existence. Exhibition (Nicolás Gajardo-Chile)

Delegates of different Origami Associations in Latin America

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