As part of its program of discussions and exchanges, VOX -ARTIS , RAW MATERIAL COMPANY offers a conference with Dwight Carey, researcher PhD in History of Art and Architecture at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) .
Dwight Carey is currently in Senegal to finalize his doctoral research on the role of trade in the global development of Creole architecture. This project examines the style of internationally uniform architecture that characterized the houses of commerce in the busiest ports of the French colonial empire from the 17th to 19th century, especially in New Orleans, Louisiana , Saint- Louis, Senegal and Port Louis in Mauritius . His work examines the process by which economies of exchange provoked a mixture of several traditions of construction and the formation of a global trade architecture . This project is the first study of the colonial economies that led the international development of a commercial form of Creole architecture.

The conference will be moderated by Massamba Mbaye , journalist, art critic, curator, historian of communication theories and graduated in strategic marketing. Associate of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA ) , he is the president of the Senegalese Association of cultural press. Currently , Mbaye served as CEO of dmedia which publishes the Dakar Life magazines, Zeina , the daily La Tribune and has in its portfolio Zik Fm radio and television Tv Sen , among others. He is a member of the editorial board of Afrik'Arts , international visual arts magazine published by the Dakar Biennale .