International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

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Currently it is estimated that the handicraft industry earns Rwanda between 3 and 4 million US Dollars annually, with the potential to raise over 7 million US Dollars annually in its export earnings to complement the coffee, tea and mineral exports that have been dominating Rwanda’s export receipts as reported in the East African new paper of 6^th July, 2012. In the incongruity, some authors consider the Traditional Arts of Rwandans as a buried gold in the soft soils of the riverbank where torrential waters gradually wear away those soft soils to supply alluvium into the lands located far away from the origin because they are almost held in hands of rural and illiterate people who are intentionally and unintentionally influenced by businessmen mainly focussing on their own interests in the market. From that reason, this paper entitled “Concepts of Umutara and Imigongo Colour Based Design in the Traditional Arts of Rwandans and their Applications in Interior and Fashion Technologies” replicates the originality and uniquity of the Traditional Arts of Rwandans into a systemized form that can officially be instructed in schools as new opportunity for economic development in Rwanda. To achieve this, a systematic examination of the gradual development of Rwandan Arts from ancient times, followed by a comparative study among the physical world collectively and the sounding features of the original products handcrafted by Rwandans or by foreigners and the computation of the mutual relationship among colours had scientifically turned out a comprehensive form outlining in details the instinct imagination and creative skill of Rwandans. 

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The race of the country in economic development involves an essential infrastructure and protected environment to ensure people and workplace healthy and safe respectively. The growth of this programme must go hand in hand with preliminary studies to harmonize these two elements, followed by executions and regular technical adjustments to prevent damages that may occur in future. From that reason, any attempt aiming to strengthen the quality and value of botanical garden devoted to trees at Ruhande over specific characteristics of some constructions it surrounds and vice versa may result in an asymmetrical and hazardous system rather than conservation and amenity desired at Ruhande. In this research work entitled “A study on Interdependent and Asymmetrical Behaviours Associated with Land use and Land cover at Ruhande, Huye, Rwanda,” behaviours associated with functional relationship between Arboretum of Ruhande owned by Rwanda Agriculture Board and civil engineering laboratory owned by National University of Rwanda have been assessed to define interdependence and asymmetry and risks created by land use and land cover at Ruhande. To achieve this, both social and economic importance of the forest in the area has been assessed as opposed to the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground, the needs for indoor air quality and visual comfort inside the laboratory during the daytime.  The outcome revealed hazardous situation if and only if the state of balance between the systems is unmaintained over the period of time with appropriate measures. 

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