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Tambacounda Hospital / Manuel Herz Architects

© Iwan Baan It was in this spirit that in 2005 Nicholas Fox Weber, the Director of the Foundation, established Le Korsa to encompass the philanthropic initiatives of the Foundation in the region. Since then the Foundation and Le Korsa have provided support to rural Senegalese communities across the fields of culture, education and health. In 2015 they launched THREAD, a cultural centre for local inhabitants of the rural village of Sinthian designed pro bono by architecture firm Toshiko Mori, which since its establishment has fostered cultural exchange between local communities and international residents. In the field of education, the Foundation and Le Korsa last year constructed an elementary school in the village of Fass, designed once again by Toshiko Mori, the first school in a region of over 110 villages to provide secular education alongside traditional Quranic teaching. Both structures share subtle yet evocative references to Josef and Anni’s practices and Bauhaus aesthet

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation to unveil new maternity and paediatric hospital in Senegal

The maternity and paediatric hospital in Tambacounda, Senegal, designed by Manuel Herz Photo: Iwan Baan. Courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa Around three years ago, Nicholas Fox Weber, the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, was standing in the paediatric unit of Tambacounda Hospital in Senegal, looking at a broken incubator. “It was basically a refrigerator tray with a light bulb hanging over it, with three babies squeezed together on it,” he says. “We quickly got a new incubator from Dakar, but then I thought, ‘Why is this necessary in our world with all this privilege? I’m in the art world, a world where people are worrying about which gallery is representing Jeff Koons for however many millions of dollars of art. Why is it necessary to have this pathetic hospital?’”

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Josef Albers: artist and professor at the Bauhaus

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New Year, Same You? Why accepting yourself is the best resolution for 2021

TextClementine Prendergast After the chaos and confusion of 2020, self-improvement might seem like a good idea right now, but desperately seeking change is unlikely to bring the happiness you’re hoping for A year of fractured dreams, immense suffering, and missed opportunities, there is no doubt very many of us are happy to see the back of 2020 and are looking optimistically to 2021. And what better way to prepare for the year ahead than setting some positive intentions, healthful behaviours, self-improvements – otherwise known as New Year’s Resolutions?. After all, as 2020 has illustrated to us, we can control so little in our lives, we may as well have a go at influencing the one thing in our lives we can control: ourselves. 

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