An exploration of how design is infused in our daily lives.

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'Where We Live' starts from our minds and bodies, into our neighbourhoods, environments, and online spaces.

The Nairobi Design Week 2022 festival was a two day expression (and two week exhibition) of the community's interpretation of this theme.

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Selected Exhibits

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The Heritage Project

Recreated digital versions of Kenyan artifacts located in foreign museums, now made accessible to locals through VR/AR and 3D printing.

The virtual space is explored like a village museum, with user friendly pop ups about the current object.

Project by Brian Njenga

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Enkang' Ang'

Experience the lifestyle of Maasai women and their traditional homes; manyattas, through VR and audio.

A project involving 10+ Kenyan female artists, led by Naitiemu

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Quarter Acre Developers

Q/A developers will be showcasing its 88 bedroom apartment complex designed for developing African cities.

The design encourages minimalism, zero waste and a sharing mindset needed to curb the adverse effects of capitalism on climate change.

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Sounds Of Freedom

Walk into the forest and experience an immersive audio film series that captures the lives and personal experiences of the young men and women who chose to fight for Kenya’s independence and liberate themselves from British imperialism.

The producer of the film is Victor Ndisya while the executive producers are Mutana Gakuru and Chao Tayiana of African Fiction Academy and African Digital Heritage respectively.

Supported by Alliance Francaise, Eunic Kenya, Switch a roo, Nairobi Design Week and Fiction entertainment.

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The Nairobian

A simple, widely accepted premise: humans are social creatures, and so cities are the best places, by virtue of scale, magnitude and proximity, to fulfill that instinctual or material need to be close together, and to share ideas, resources etc. To live, basically.

Project by Kaliworks