I write about what happens when technology reaches our territories already built somewhere else: who extracts the data, who sets the terms, whose culture gets flattened and whose future gets decided.
The world asks whether AI is good for us. The South’s question is older: under what conditions, and decided by whom.
Richard Serra saw it on television in 1973. Today’s platforms have moved on from our attention to our intimacy.
From community cell networks to indigenous archives, a map of the alternatives the South is building.
The promise of access as redemption is broken. The South doesn’t arrive late to what comes next; it arrives differently.
A guide to surviving the 21st century: who gets to decide what a culture keeps, transforms or leaves behind.
The myth of progress, from kings to CEOs: who decides what counts as moving forward, and who pays for it.
Climate change is still taught as data. This essay argues for teaching it as it is: a crisis with names, numbers and colonial roots.
A reading of the report, and five ways for the Global South to write itself into the worlds' leading AI forecast.
In-depth interview with AI expert and computational neuroscientist Ramsay Brown, exploring the purpose of AI while looking into what the near future looks like for designers and their teams.
Second half of the interview series with Ramsay Brown, where he reflects on the links between design and AI while examining the reasons why we’re glued to our phones.
An open conversation with Celeste Mountjoy, the Australian author who talks about anxiety, feminism, addiction, body image, relationships, and societal expectations.
Information designer & data artist Tiziana Alocci talks about data-driven creative processes, her inspiration, and the career choices that led her into becoming a leader in her field.
Guidione Machava’s critical view of his journey from suburban Mozambique, through South Africa, to the French offices of Shopify, is the cornerstone to starting a long and overdue conversation about diversity and inclusivity in the design industry.