Here’s how I designed a prototype to fix it — In January 2020, I ran an in-person experiment for my thesis at the MIT Media Lab. The project, called Allo-I, is a virtual reality human interaction study that centers the lives and experiences of Black women — specifically, Kenyan women living in informal settlements in Nairobi. …

What happens when you take VR into a slum? As a VR enthusiast, I’ve been long searching for my Chaplin moment with the medium. It’s fun, it’s interesting but many times I create something and end up asking myself, ‘OK, so what?’ This year, I’ve had the privilege of being…

I should preface by saying that I’m no expert in theme parks nor do I think it’s feasibly possible to ‘hack the African imagination’. It’s for precisely those reasons that I titled my workshops that way. …

Here at the Center for Civic Media, we don’t only care about True Love, we care about Just Love. In 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron hypothesized that a series of 36 questions could foster interpersonal closeness. The questions have become well-known as the 36 Questions that Lead to Love after Mandy…

An American Dilemma, Revisited — An “American Dilemma, Revisited” is a project by American photographer, Andrew Reneissen. The project is introduced by him as below: In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist, published the book ‘An American Dilemma’. Myrdal argued America’s dilemma was the contrasting ideals of justice and equal opportunities, on which America was…

Before I head out to start my Master’s program in the dream that is the MIT Media Lab, I get to spend my last few months in Kenya working on a mini-Media Lab here in Nairobi. 360Afrika is a consortium of companies and individuals joined together by a common goal…

Once again, I get to participate in an awesome Team Project leading Team Aech — an awesome squad of designers and programmers from all over the world. Natalia Kaganovskaya (Ukraine), Ahmed Chehab el Dine(Lebanon) and Diana Cristina Culincu (Romania) and I have worked on a project before (Andromeda Initiative) and…

“Go not where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” — Ralph Waldo Emerson On February 27th, I got an email with words I’d long dreamt of reading but had little hope would come to be. …

I love dancing. So naturally, I wanted to make something that I could dance to in Virtual Reality. I’ll preface by saying that the experience isn’t that complex nor is it very safe (turns out that dancing with a headset on makes it quite hard to keep balance). That said…