The Heritage Project
Recreated digital versions of Kenyan artifacts located in foreign museums, now made accessible to locals through VR/AR and 3D printing.
By Brian Njenga
Enkang' Ang'
Experience the lifestyle of Maasai women and their traditional homestead; Enkang', through VR and audio.
A project involving 10+ Kenyan female artists, led by Naitiemu.
WhereWeLiveVR
Built by Realtyme Kenya, a 3D, VR experience that acts as a companion to the physical event
Journey Through The Senses (JTTS), celebrates the vast universe of human sensory perception through the lens of art, performance, science, technology and interactive installations.
Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses.
This collaboration begins a research project that focuses on congenital synaesthesia in an African cultural context (Kenyan indigenous cultures, in particular).
Africhibi
Characters inspired by culture, created by Nairobi Design Week, and brought to life by artists in the community.
A game exploring the relationship between Skateboarding and Chess By Zamani Skateboards
Adam Yawe uses technology to explore, discover and share more about Kenyan traditions through :
Wicks, Wax and Wonders Candle Co
Moments and memories are more vividly experienced through our senses but I believe scent captures a great depth of it. And so W, W, W was created to incorporate scent into our most intimate spaces.
Quarter Acre Developers
Q/A developers showcases 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.
Doing Zero
Carrying on last year's project, we are partnering with Design Manchester & British Council to build an urban farm with the community. Come to the festival to learn, plant and paint.
Bespoke Bamboo Products
Bamboo craftsmanship, construction, bamboo plantation establishment and the community.
Project by BarryANDStudio
Free Mind Sessions
Create a miniature community with amenities that would enhance your human experience currently, as well as years from now while also offering services, spaces, and amenities that would serve you best , beyond your wildest dreams!.
Swap & Collab Lab by Switcharoo & The Acacia Collective
The Swap Lab is about discovering a new way we can share the world with each other. Meeting today’s needs while ensuring that the way we go about meeting those needs meet future needs as well. Making Sustainability Practical.
The Collab Lab uses project collaboration as a way to build and create between people within different disciplines, mixing, matching to showcasing their talents.
Abstract pieces of earrings and rings that are a reflection of the many individuals going about their lives on earth; under the universe (where we live).
The designs are characterized by minimal organic forms inspired by the conventional human stick figure.
A simple, widely accepted premise:
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
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.
FUZU
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FUZU will be hosting a workshop on Sat 9th April. See schedule for full details.
Sinapis
A workshop where entrepreneurs learn how to scale their businesses while also making a social & spiritual impact in their community.
Sinapis provides executive level training based on Acton School of Business's MBA program and blended with real-world insights from leaders who have served in top management firms. This is training designed for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.
Empowering refugee women
Workshop on how to make scarves using Tie & Dye techniques.
The Hoperaisers Initiative
Personal stories about our women pushing the limits of creativity in animation, life and work will be the highlight of this expression.
'Using various media through stopmotion and locally available materials, our concepts change the narrative of graphic art and will give new opportunities to those that seek release in Art.'
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Functional handcrafted art
The Art Carte
Our world is full of bold colours, fresh ideas, unique concepts and quality products featuring our designer's one-of-a-kind hand-drawn illustrations and distinctive color palette that are the Heart of The Art Carte.
Under Our Skin
Film screening
Under Our Skin is an International Human Rights Film Festival in Kenya that provides a platform for filmmakers to share various works focussed on human rights.
Bangarang
A film produced by Robin Opondo inspired by the true events of the Kenyan Post-Eection violence that led to the death of a 6 months old Baby Pendo.
IG : leqwoodproductions
If Objects Could Speak
A film directed by Saitabao Kaiyare
Two filmmakers take a Kenyan artifact from a German museum, produce a 3D scan and embark on a journey back to it's roots. The only information about the object is that it entered the museum in 1903. Why don't the museum know more about it?
IG : ifobjectscouldspeak
IG : kaiyare
Nisria - Community-based Organisation
"Into the Light" is a photography project that highlights vulnerable children living with HIV in Loving Hands Safe House, a children home that looks after abandoned and orphaned children.
Paula Casado Aguirregabiria
These photos showcase different refugee and IDP women throughout the region (ie Ethiopia, Kenya, SSD, and Uganda) in different settings and locations, with the purpose of showcasing a close by reality that many of us is oblivious to,
We would accompany every picture with a short explanation of the reality portrait and the work done by JRS, the organization for whom the photos were taken.
Ren's and Non's
They use organic, locally sourced seasonal fruits and no preservatives for year round condiments.
This makes it a sustainable way to produce and consume as it encourages eating habits that are respectful to the environment and the natural cycle of production.
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Knotted, twisted, filled donuts
Lovingly homemade & fresh donuts just for you.
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