Participants/delegates attending African Consortium 2023 will come from a cross-sectoral range of areas. 

They are:

·   Academics, designers, researchers and practitioners, strategic decision makers, managers, entrepreneurs,       design and engineering professionals, regional or international design Schools and Universities.

·   Design and engineering students and trainees;

·   Other people interested in the field.

This wide range of participants will help to outline the need for integrated approaches and address the forces of globalisation towards the ‘new normal’ situation hence contributing to the enforcement of sustainable design practices in line with the United nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

The conference will run over three days with displays and topic oriented sessions, virtual  Fashion shows, Exhibition and workshops on the online platform. It will call for applied and theoretical papers from international Design Institutes/Schools and Industry, based on thorough impactful analysis, results and outcome.

The conference main and sub topics:

1.  Fashion, Textile and Accessories:

• New Trends in Fashion- COVID-19

• Smart & Intelligent Textiles

• Nanotechnology & Fashion

• Fashion & Comfort

• Luxury products & Brands

• Inter relation of Fashion & Materials

• New Contour Design

• Eco Fashion

• Fashion 4.0

2.  Smart and Digital Designs:

• Interface design

• Haptic Applications

• Visual and digital interpretations

• Web based models

• Digital Marketing

• Graphic and Animation

• User-Centred Designs

      3.       In built interiors and Engineering Designs:

• Energy efficient building systems and controls

• Engineering for safe and healthy indoor environments

• Influence of interior design on occupant productivity

• Passive interior design for daylighting and natural ventilation

• IoT technologies for monitoring and modulating interior environments

• Artificial Intelligence applications for interior building design

Africa Consortium 2023 is being organised by the Academy of Design and Innovation (under the aegis of the Ministry of Industrial Development, SMEs and Cooperatives (Industrial Division) Mauritius) in Mauritius. Mauritius is a key and easily accessible location to group international academics, designers and stakeholders across the world. The Mauritian Organizing Committee of Africa Consortium 2023 kindly invites participants to submit papers, either for oral or poster presentations, and attend the Africa Consortium 2023 on 25 – 27 March 2023 in Mauritius. The organizing committee is also calling for pre-recorded virtual presentation, Fashion shows and Design displays which will be uploaded on the conference website.

Africa Consortium 2023 will include plenary sessions, keynote speeches, parallel oral presentation sessions and poster sessions on different topics. Contributions are invited on the topics within the conference scope and also on other relevant areas. All contributions should be of high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication. All papers will undergo blind peer-review process and accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be presented either orally or by poster or virtually.

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on topics which are within the scope of the conference as per the template. The paper should clearly indicate the purpose of the work, approach and significant results obtained. The author should indicate their preference for oral or poster presentation or virtual. However, the scientific committee reserves the right to select it as a poster or oral presentation as considered to be best suited.