Juliana Rotich at Design Indaba Conference 2014. Image: Jonx Pillemer.

African Design/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByJuliana Rotich

Juliana Rotich on a new tech ecosystem for Africa (trailer)

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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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.

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The co-founder of Ushahidi shares her journey on the frontlines of technology and digital connectivity in Africa.

Juliana Rotich

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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.