Research Areas/Interests
Research Areas
- Wood and metal Integration,
- metal production and fabrication,
- Wood Carving and General woodwork
- Design
- Material Integration
- General Research (Especially Research in Art and Design)
Specific areas of research interest
- Best practices in wood and metal integration for production of Art and Design. This also looks at material appropriation in the development of local technologies for some local industries
- Local art forms for product development
- Local caldrons and related cast forms in metal integrated fabrication
- Local technology for contemporary solutions
- Processing and application of local raw materials
Current Research being undertaken
- Local technology for the production of horse driven wagons
- Local technology for the production of horse driven wagons
- local bicycle using appropriate technology
- A student friendly wheel for Disabled students
- Utility pole for an academic work environment
- Local caldron (“dadesen”) in product development
- A compact bench for annealing metal
- The construction of an improved locally manufactured heat sealer
- A mini dual purpose furnace: A reuse approach
- A gas burning de-waxing oven
- Water fountain in iron and aluminium cast utensils