The Clothes We Throw Away Are Telling Us Something
A few months ago, I watched a garbage truck unload waste at a dumpsite. Mixed in with food scraps, broken plastic buckets […]
Kenya Didn’t Create the World’s Textile Waste Problem, But We’re Living With It
Every Saturday morning, markets across Kenya come alive. Traders unpack fresh bales of mitumba, customers search for bargains, and business moves quickly. […]
We Need to Talk About the Clothes We Throw Away
Most of us don’t think about what happens to a piece of clothing after we’re done with it. A shirt gets faded, […]
The Growing Pile of Textile Waste Kenya Can No Longer Ignore
Walk through Gikomba, Kongowea, Toi Market or almost any second-hand clothing market in Kenya and you’ll see something that has become part […]
Deconstructing Bias: Critical Thinking for Impact Entrepreneurs
Don’t Fall in Love with Your Idea. There’s a particular kind of failure that’s almost invisible until it’s too late. It doesn’t […]
Build It Anyway
I am Lawrence Kosgei, an MBA student at Kenyatta University and the founder of Swahili Design Lab. For as long as I […]
Designs that move
Most people think designing solutions is about sitting down, thinking hard, and coming up with something clever. That’s not quite right. The […]
Designing for a Moving World: What Marina Tabassum Teaches Us About Architecture That Listens
There is a quiet arrogance in the way we often speak about architecture — as permanence, as monument, as something that must […]