African Design/2014/29 min/Reel № 14.001
ByJuliana Rotich
Juliana Rotich on a new tech ecosystem for Africa
A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014
A close reading, kept within reach.
Juliana Rotich takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Kenya in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Juliana's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
What if solutions to the world’s problems came from Africa? asks Juliana Rotich, co-founder of Kenyan technology firm Ushahidi.
About the speaker
Juliana Rotich
Nairobi/Kenya
Juliana Rotich is co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company that build tools for democratising information.
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