Studio
Commission strategies, designs and capability programmes.
Who we are
A design and futures
practice for Africa.
Refuture Africa is a regenerative design and futures studio. We help organisations and communities understand current realities, imagine alternatives, and turn them into practical strategies, designs and experiments.
Our purpose
Making more regenerative
futures possible.
People and communities should have the freedom, imagination and capability to shape futures of their own.
To refuture is to reopen what seems settled, imagine alternatives and act. Research with people and place grounds that imagination; design gives it practical form.
How we work
Our mission
Imagine desirable African futures. Design regenerative alternatives. Build the capability to realise and steward them.
One practice, connected ambitions
A studio. A lab.
A movement. A cultural ambition.
Lab
Make space for inquiry, imagination and experiments.
Movement
Connect people who want to think differently and act.
Culture
Bring possible futures into public questions and creative expression.
What guides us
Leave the conditions
for renewal stronger.
Regeneration asks how people, places and living systems can thrive and renew over time. Each brief names what it intends to strengthen and how that change could be assessed.
01Real agency
Agree how affected people influence questions and decisions.
02Place and plurality
Work with local knowledge, language and different aspirations.
03Fair knowledge and value
Agree consent, compensation, credit and knowledge use.
04Evidence of renewal
Examine starting conditions, trade-offs and unintended effects.
05Care in imagination and building
Resource experiments and change direction through learning.
06Capability that continues
Plan for transfer, maintenance and stewardship.
Begin with a brief
What becomes possible
when we reopen the question?
Bring a research question, a strategy decision, a service or enterprise idea, or a pilot.