Design Futures Lab 2023 Archives

Futuristic Pagan by Chipo Mapondera and Sabina Mutsvati

Futuristic Pagan explores Shona spiritual practices and traditions through virtual reality. The space reflects a Shona dreamscape made up of traditional icons that represent the rituals and meanings related to communicating with the ancestors, and other guides and deities. The...

September 29, 2023

What lies beneath by Rufaro Magara and Ryan Harvey

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What lies beneath by Rufaro Magara and Ryan Harvey

Dive into a virtual ocean adventure in “What Lies Beneath”, a captivating prototype VR game that transports players to an underwater world with a pressing mission to save the seas. The game seamlessly blends education with entertainment, empowering the viewer...

September 29, 2023

Back To by Tarryn Tippens and Larnelle Bakala

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Back To by Tarryn Tippens and Larnelle Bakala

Back To is a short-format 360-degree film that explores cultural identity through sustainable design. This is the story of a woman named Yelena who is living in a post-apocalyptic world. Yelena tells us the story of how her life has...

September 29, 2023

Resurrection by Jackson Chifamba and Joel Chandauka

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Resurrection by Jackson Chifamba and Joel Chandauka

Join JaXX in an immersive experience of what it’s like to be a textile creative in Harare. Follow him as he goes to the Mbare market to thrift for second-hand clothes that he uses as material for the making of...

September 28, 2023

Bhero Kulture by Siza Mukwedini and Plot Mhako

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Bhero Kulture by Siza Mukwedini and Plot Mhako

For Bhero Kulture, Siza and Plot have created an augmented reality portal into the Mabhero clothing market in Harare, and an immersive zine that allows viewers to engage with various topics affecting the fashion industry in Zimbabwe. The zine invites...

September 28, 2023

Far and Wide by Larah Fisher and Keith Dliwayo

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Far and Wide by Larah Fisher and Keith Dliwayo

In this immersive 360 degree virtual reality music video, Larah and Keith have created different spaces of nature, accompanied by soundscapes, that represent different phases of climate change. Original music has been composed for the film experience of wandering through...

September 28, 2023

Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion

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Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion

“We have a crisis of imagination,” said Marina Gattás, Wellbeing Economy Alliance Brazil Hub Co-Lead, during her presentation at the Design Futures Lab 2023. The lab creatives are addressing this failure of imagination. Using possibilities offered by immersive technology, they...

July 17, 2023

Meet the 12 creatives selected for Design Futures Lab 2023

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Meet the 12 creatives selected for Design Futures Lab 2023

This year a musician, artisanal fashion designer, culture activist and artist join cutting-edge photographers, filmmakers and creative technologists for the second edition of Design Futures Lab. After considerable deliberation, six Zimbabweans and six South Africans have been selected to participate...

April 14, 2023

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Futuristic Pagan by Chipo Mapondera and Sabina Mutsvati

What lies beneath by Rufaro Magara and Ryan Harvey

Back To by Tarryn Tippens and Larnelle Bakala

Resurrection by Jackson Chifamba and Joel Chandauka

Bhero Kulture by Siza Mukwedini and Plot Mhako

Far and Wide by Larah Fisher and Keith Dliwayo

Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion

Meet the 12 creatives selected for Design Futures Lab 2023

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