Design Reparations | Design meets Indigenous

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Cultural Knowledge Revival Program

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

Regeneration Festival

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

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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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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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Showcase the artistic and design culture 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 restore rather than extract and exploit?
Design Reparations is nurturing relationships of understanding, care and reciprocity between designers, innovators, social entrepreneurs and the traditional, indigenous communities around the world, for ecological and just outcomes

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

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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.

Mzee Manga, thank you for your wisdom, we will treasure your lessons.

Unfortunately Mzee Manga passed away today. We want to remember him at Nairobi Design Week talking with designers and visitors about Samia culture and traditions.

From @kengecontenthive
"Mzee Manga, an elder and a custodian of our communitie's wisdom. Through our close engagement with him, we came to understand that elders like him carry knowledge and guidance that shapes how we see land, culture, and each other.
It's a personal feeling to us that his passing is a reminder of the urgency of the work we are doing. There is still so much wisdom held by our elders that must be carried forward.
It's our Prayer that his wisdom continue to guide us, we will sure honour him in action.
May he rest💔"

An online gathering co-organized by Design Reparations, @inclusivedesignjam, @humanitariandesigners, Design Changemakers and @ux4change.

With the rise of anti-rights politics, plans of militarization and the degradation of our ecosystems, we are all feeling the grief and the exhaustion of disappointment, in our common commitment towards social justice, dignity and regeneration.

While these feelings are important and we need to acknowledge them, we believe that hope is a practice and that no future will ever exist if we are not going to imagine it together.

Date: Thursday, February 19
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM GMT+1
Online gathering

Let’s get together for an exercise of radical, ecological, reciprocal, trans-national, and just co-imagination.

Read more and register at the link in bio

Over the past year and a half, Design Reparations has connected designers, innovators, and Indigenous communities.

We now invite organisations into this conversation, to explore how their culture, operations, and governance can move beyond extraction and build reciprocal relationships with people and planet.

In dialogue and collaboration with Indigenous leaders, whose communities have long lived in reciprocal relationships with ecosystems, we co-design models rooted in your organisation and people.

Our three services:
🌱 Rooting Culture — workshops, reflections, learning journeys
🧵 Weaving Operations — process redesign, transformation programs
🌍 Stewarding Governance — advisory boards or supervisory bodies with Indigenous leaders

Take a look at the slides to learn more. If you are part of an organisation, or know one, that is open to this collaboration, we’d love to hear from you.

#indigenousknowledge #designreparations #services

Greetings to the Rivers: Tietê in São Paulo, Rio Santo Anastácio in Presidente Prudente

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Dutch Design Week

Our projects

Cultural Knowledge Revival Program

Regeneration Festival

Bring Gaza Home / Gaza Travel Agency

Nairobi Design Week

Showcase the artistic and design culture of the Bafut community

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

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

News, reflections and invitations

Gaza Travel Agency in Hoop voor Gaza

Gaza Travel Agency: A Reflection on the Right of Return

Stewarding Gaza Travel Agency at Dutch Design Week 2025

Our Journey Post Nairobi Design Week

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Pictures of recent projects from our partners

COMMITTED TO ECOLOGICAL AND JUST FUTURES

Projects

Our projects

Cultural Knowledge Revival Program

Regeneration Festival

Bring Gaza Home / Gaza Travel Agency

Nairobi Design Week

Showcase the artistic and design culture of the Bafut community

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

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

News, reflections and invitations

Gaza Travel Agency in Hoop voor Gaza

Gaza Travel Agency: A Reflection on the Right of Return

Stewarding Gaza Travel Agency at Dutch Design Week 2025

Our Journey Post Nairobi Design Week

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Follow us on Instagram

Pictures of recent projects from our partners

COMMITTED TO ECOLOGICAL AND JUST FUTURES

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