Hack The Future Lab: Kenya

Day One

Day One moves through the Anatomy of Resistance. Mophat Okinyi examines people, labour and data workers. Kambale Musavuli connects AI to land, minerals and material extraction. Rex M. Lee explores the Electronic Bill of Rights and the implications of the Digital Twin. The group then moves from resistance into recollection, repurposing and regeneration through the work of Kai Njeri, Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman and Dr Mary Bitta, engaging Ubuntu, lineage, bodily intelligence, African ways of knowing and alternative understandings of technology.

Day Two

Day Two begins by reconnecting the room to the intelligence generated on Day One. Karen’s Future Histories process invites participants to travel into 2035 and return carrying an artefact that could only exist because a different system had been built. David Bassuk’s Protopian World-building session expands these artefacts into coherent future environments. Yvonne Cho, Dr Angella Ndaka and Odanga Madung then future-proof the work through international, African socio-technical, human-technology, civic and institutional reality checks. Throughout the Lab, Mario supports systemic pattern recognition through Miro, creating a live connective layer between conversations, tensions and emerging ideas. The process culminates in future artefacts, Ubuntu-informed protocols and practical governance principles around consent, labour, ownership, stewardship and digital sovereignty. These will feed into the Future Chronicles Brief and Toolkit, the development of Consensus Gentium 2, and the Griot: a living memory and relational intelligence platform designed to preserve the language, relationships and knowledge generated through the Lab.

The Lab closes with evidence becoming blueprint. Participants return from the future carrying not only ideas, but commitments, responsibilities and possible actions for the present.