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Clemens Hackl Design create two AACDD installations for the 2011 London Design Festival in September.

Following their highly successful and widely acclaimed debut in 2010, where more than 20,000 visitors saw the first set of nine exhibitions, this year's African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora Festival Programme continues to celebrate black creativity throughout September and October 2011 at various locations across London, alongside and in partnership with the London Design Festival.

Clemens Hackl Design are excited to be working on two mayor projects for this event, involving a range of disciplines from photography to interaction design.

"Connect to Art" is a virtual collaborative art space allowing a global audience of artists, designers and other creative minds to connect, communicate and collaborate on a digital canvas in real time. In addition to the permanent installation at the AACDD's main hub there will be special workshops during which we will connect three groups of individuals in London, African and the Caribbean allowing them to create a series of collaborative pieces of digital art.

This project is supported by BigDog Interactive, the creators of the "Graffito" iPhone and iPad App, on which the project is based, as well as TEDxSoweto, the independently organised TED conference platform in South Africa.

The second project, "Below the Surface", is a youth-led and community driven photography project shedding light on the real life in African and African-Caribbean communities in London, the life below the surface of public perception. Young people from various areas, communities and backgrounds in London, including young offenders and those at risk of social exclusion, will be given the task to document one day of his/her life with a disposable camera. The end result will be a large scale photographic exhibition, a collage of life’s colourful facets within the African and African-Caribbean communities in London.

Both projects will be on display at the Barge House, Southbank, from September 8-25, as well as in other locations across London.