Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Erxell concept gets recognition

Over the last several years the Erxell concept has had a few great acknowledgements from industry and educational facilities. One of these Erxell achievement awards was given to me from the academy of advanced technology. I received this award in 2007 at a graduation ceremony i attended as a SAID representative. I was unaware at the time they had put down professor in front of my name on the award.

Another time at a CAD conference in Johannesburg i gave a lecture - "Future Techno Perfect" I was introduced as Dr Damstra on the printed program - Again i had to explain the fact I'm not a Dr or a Professor - I have also been termed in a design magazine as a maverick architect. This is also a confusion because i am in actual fact a professional senior architectural technologist. However it is great that the Erxell concept receives this sort of  positive attention. As i do see it as a way for the financially destitute socio economic down trodden to improve their environment, whilst earning a residual advertising income.

So I'm not trying to reach higher than my station and i hope that this clears up any Prof , Doc, Arch titles floating around out there.