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Omnium Outreach Projects
Omnium Outreach Projects aim to assist and aid communities in need in a variety of countries (often other creative people in less fortunate situations or settings) via harnessing the potential of art and design projects to engage and make a difference within a global society. These community based projects are driven by Omnium’s overall aim to encourage students, educators and professionals from all over the world to collaborate in a variety of ways, to focus their attention on more socially aware and ethically responsive art and design projects.
All Omnium Outreach Projects are run as non-profit ventures and funded in full from sales of Omnium Software licenses and commercial design projects completed through the Omnium Design Studio.
Outreach Philippines - [re]frame Manila
[re]frame - manila is the latest Omnium Outreach Project and specifically aims to assist a local collective of women embroiderers (PML) from the town of Lumban in the province of Laguna in the Philippines.. The project intends to help open up new commercial opportunities and sustainable business practice for the local artisans, while staying true to their traditions, culture and heritage.
[re]frame - manila focuses on the detail and intricate nature of existing traditional and cultural Filipino embroidery techniques, by framing off small sections of the work and placing them in an entirely new contemporary context –. Omnium has been working on the project for over a year in collaboration with the Social Action Office of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Manila.
The outcome of the [re]frame - manila project is a large wall installation (4.8 m x 11 m) comprising over 2500 individually framed embroidery pieces that is now installed as a permanent artwork in the foyer of DLS-CSB’s School of Design and Arts in Malate, Manila. The project was a large scale collaboration and provided many months ongoing employment for over 60 embroiderers and woodworkers in the province, at a time when work was scarce and difficult to attract.
[re]frame - manila opened to the public on May 15th, 2008.
Outreach Kenya - Visualising Issues in Pharmacy (VIP ‘07)
VIP ‘07 was the first fully online international education initiative designed to link students and teachers in Pharmacy and Graphic Design departments from universities and colleges around the world.
The project challenged a diverse body of students and educators and professionals to address important global health issues by producing detailed research reports and subsequent visual communication campaigns for implementation in specific local hospitals and health centres in Kenya, Africa.
Outreach Sri Lanka
The aim of this project was to assist Sri Lankan artisans affected by the tsunami disaster. The beginnings of this project occurred in 2006, when an Omnium member Caroline Falconer was approached by an agency in Sri Lanka who was interested in having designers come together and develop products that would be of an economic interest to a Western market.
