focus on participation
Several projects place the emphasis on exchange between project partners and stakeholders in designing and implementing the intended activities, and publicly sharing and discussing the results. For example, the project Lagos, home for all reflects via AR storytelling on landmarks that symbolize social change in the fast-growing city of Lagos. Maatschap Mooves and Vortex are collaborating in the project with a diverse group of animators and makers of comics and films to develop digital stories together and share them publicly in different parts of the city through illustrated posters that utilize Augmented Reality. With Sing for Sudan, We Sell Reality – a collective of social designers from countries including Sudan – Nest Foundation and SalaMedia set up a ‘makers’ space’ in Kampala (Uganda), where designers, artists and activists who have fled Sudan are offered a space for experimentation and creation. The makers’ space will function as a collective workplace where connections with each other and with the city are made and cross-pollinations are encouraged. The project WhoseDemocracy? LAB is a laboratory that focuses on co-creative research to explore democratic and participatory practices emerging from different West African traditions in Benin, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. This research study, based on art and design and conducted with artists, scientists and thinkers based on the African continent, is being captured in photography and film. Showing the images in travelling exhibitions gives room for further engagement with the local lens of the participating makers. Through a multi-channel platform, new relationship networks between different regions are stimulated.
