Design Reparations | Design meets Indigenous

Our projects

Radical Reimaginations of the Future

A collaborative imagination program to reclaim regenerative, decolonized and equitable futures for all.

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Youth and the Future Website

Supporting Youth and the Future with the design and development of their website to increase reach and impact.

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Bring Gaza Home / Gaza Travel Agency

Bring Gaza Home advocates for the right of Palestinians to return to their homes.

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Cultural Knowledge Revival Program

Documentation of the Samia Indigenous knowledge and how it can guide sustainable practices against climate change.

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Regeneration Festival

A festival in Busia county to center traditional knowledge on climate indicators, sustainable farming, and cultural history.

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Nairobi Design Week

Design Reparations is participating in Nairobi Design Week with a workshop in Busia, an exhibition and a discussion panel.

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Art and design of the Bafut community

Imagining a local creative talent with the Bafut community as a celebration of talent and ancestral knowledge

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How can design heal, repair and regenerate instead of extracting and exploiting?

Design Reparations brings together people, organizations and communities committed to support acts of repair, care and regeneration.
We work alongside Indigenous and traditional peoples, local activists and cultural workers putting our time, skills and resources behind more just and regenerative futures.

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Join our crowdfunding and get invited to one Design Reparations session!

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Design Reparations is participating in Dutch Design Week, 22 and 25 October, Eindhoven.

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News, reflections and invitations

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Design Reparations partnered with GNDR - Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, to co-create the visual identity for their 5-year strategy by engaging network members worldwide and drawing inspiration from local plants and community narratives. The project centred on participation, cultural grounding, and shared meaning, resulting in visuals that reflect resilience and local knowledge.

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Thank you, collaborators: Mariastella Kamuti, Ayafor Leonel Arts, Kowawa Kapokaja Apurinã

When we organized Radical Reimaginations of the Futures in February and March, we could not believe the energy in the virtual room.

While people were leaving with emotions, hope and ideas, we left with a precise mandate: organizing more and longer opportunities for people to manifest their visions of just, regenerative futures.

We researched and crafted a whole journey. And we realized that bringing it to life in a fair, equitable and caring way needed more resources.

Crowdfunding was the natural choice.
An idea that was collectively conceived, explored and created had to be also collectively supported.

We invite you to join our crowdfunding campaign (link in bio of @designreparations)

By supporting this crowdfunding, you are rejecting narratives of destruction and scarcity and actively getting behind visions of abundance, justice, regeneration and care. You are becoming part of the pluriverse of possibilities and hope that the Cohort will generate.

We are raising funds to be able to organize at least one cohort in November and offer it for free to a selected number of participants, while being equitable and fair towards the organizers and the experts that will support the journey.

Join us. Support the futures you want to see.

For more information we are hosting a Questions & Answers session tomorrow, the 18th of September at 12:00 – 1:00 pm CEST Time (Amsterdam time). Link in bio of @designreparations

www.radicalreimaginationsofthefutures.com

In April 2026, Design Reparations co-designed and delivered The Youth Council, a program for Gymnasium students in Nijmegen, Netherlands in collaboration with SPINSELS, a social design studio and the Museum Orientalis. It brought together students aged 14 to 15.

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🍃 The global challenges of today do not need incremental change, but complete re-imagination. Is it the sector that needs re-framing? The business model? The theory of change?

At Design Reparations we believe that re‑imagination and transformation come from plural knowledge systems learning from one another. A resilient and equitable response for these uncertain times.

Instead of being paralyzed by complex challenges we want invite you to expand with us the realm of possibilities of more collaboration, learning and unlearning and ethical innovation.

Send a DM if you want to talk about how we can support you.

#decolonizedesign #regeneration #systemschange
#indigenousknowledge

Support the Right of Return for Palestinians.

Gaza Travel Agency went to the Hoop voor Gaza event, in Deventer, Netherlands.

"Participating in this event was essential for building relationships with people and organisations that share the goal of advocating Palestinians' human rights"

What is the Gaza Travel Agency?

Gaza Travel Agency presents an imaginary travel agency that designs the return of Gazan refugees to their ancestral towns. It is a speculative and participatory design experience inspired by historian Dr. Salman Abu Sitta’s practical plans for the return of Palestinian refugees. It invites visitors to visualise, not debate, the routes, possibilities, and emotions of return.

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