How can design heal, repair and restore rather than extract and exploit?
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.
A collaborative program bringing people together to collectively imagine just, regenerative, and decolonial futures.
Find out more about the program, join our crowdfunding campaign or sign up for the Cohort. Join us in re-imagining futures we deserve.
our work
How do design reparations look like?
A research in regenerative practices from the Samia community in Kenya. Celebrating and reviving traditions for climate resilience and community cohesion.
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An imaginary travel agency that designs the return of Palestinian refugees to their ancestral towns. It is a speculative and participatory design experience that invites visitors to visualize, not debate, the routes, possibilities, and emotions of return.
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An exhibition and a panel discussion about decolonize design and centering Indigenous Knowledge at Nairobi Design Week.
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A visual design concept and execution that integrates the diversity and strength of natural ecosystems and a global network of communities working on disaster risk reduction.
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about us
Why Design Reparations?
We come together to design and work on projects that can regenerate land and communities depleted by exploitation and oppression.
We are motivated by indigenous and traditional people, local activists and cultural workers who have been caring for and protecting the Earth, its forests, rivers, peoples, stories, and futures.
projects and services
Our projects and circles
Design Reparations works together with several indigenous and local organizations around the world to support their work rooted in relationality and connection. Our partners are leading the work, the scope and the implementation of our projects. We invite and coordinate volunteers that get to learn from traditional and ancestral cultures while working on indigenous-led futures.
Radical Reimaginations of the Futures
We come together to imagine and give shape to radically different visions of the future, where humans and more-than-human beings can live in safety, reciprocity, and care.
GNDR Strategy Document
Co-designing symbols of resilience with local communities and plants to represent the new strategy of GNDR, a global network of 2,000 civil society organisations working to strengthen resilience and reduce disaster risk in communities worldwide.
Voices of Nature
We explore different ways of listening to and relating with the living world, bringing diverse knowledge systems into dialogue to inform climate resilience, education and spatial design.
Gaza Travel Agency
What if people in Gaza could just enter a travel agency and plan their return home? Home to the places they were displaced from since 1948 and never allowed to return to, despite international law kepts on promising it to them. Gaza Travel Agency brings awareness to the Right of Return for Palestinians with speculative design.
Youth and the Future Website
What if design could amplify the work of indigenous-led organization committed to local resilience and regeneration? With a team of volunteers we designed, developed and implemented a website for Youth and the Future, empowering local Cameroonian with the guidance of Bafut wisdom.
The Youth Council
What if young people were in charge? We invited seven young people to explore alternative forms of governance, drawing on Indigenous knowledge and different traditions of collective decision-making.
STORIES AND NEWS
Our Stories
Our work is shaped by the people we collaborate with, the experiences we gather and the world around us. Here, we share stories, insights and reflections from our own practice and that of our partners, opening up perspectives on the questions, challenges and opportunities that matter to us.
Co-designing symbols of resilience with global communities and local plants
In May 2026, GNDR - Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, reached out with an invitation to design the document for their next 5 years Strategy. Instead of designing from our own references, we found a way to co-create with the members...
What does the use of Generative AI do to our human creative expression? Part 2: The thinking
Welcome back, I hope that before you read this piece, you have taken part in Part 1 of this Article, the experiment. There I asked you to try a few tasks and see how it made you feel and what it made you think. I came up with those exercises inspired by some...
What does the use of Generative AI do to our human creative expression? Part 1: the experiment
What does the use of Generative AI do to our human creative expression? Part 1: the experiment My expression about a place that is significant for me: a view from the sea on the Ligurian Coast This article is kind of an experiment. If you will entertain it, you...
Radical Reimaginations of the Future
In February and March, we gathered five communities online under the invitation Radical Reimaginations of the Future. The sessions were co-organized by Design Reparations, Inclusive Design Jam, Humanitarian Designers, Design Changemakers, and UX for Change. With the...
The Youth Council
In April 2026, Design Reparations co-designed and delivered The Youth Council, a program for Gynmasium students in Nijmegen in collaboration with Spinsel, a social design studio and the Museum Orientalis. It brought together students aged 14 to 15 around a simple...
Gaza Travel Agency in Hoop voor Gaza
The Gaza Travel Agency participated in Hoop voor Gaza at the Bergkerk in Deventer, Netherlands, from 8 to 22 April 2026. The exhibition brought together the Nomadic Monument for Gaza, works from the Art Academy for Young Talent in Gaza, Lebanese artist Mounira al...
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Do you want to support?
Design Reparations exists because of the dedication of its volunteers. The work we do with organisations is also meant to support the work we donate to indigenous communities and local activists around the world. You can support us in different ways: by volunteering on a specific project, by volunteering for Design Reparations in general or by donating.