How can design heal, repair and restore rather than extract and exploit?
Design Reparations brings together people, organizations and communities committed to support acts of repair, care and regeneration.
We work alongside Indigenous and traditional peoples, local activists and cultural workers putting our time, skills and resources behind more just and regenerative futures.
A collaborative program bringing people together to collectively imagine just, regenerative, and decolonial futures.
Find out more about the program, join our crowdfunding campaign or sign up for the Cohort. Join us in re-imagining futures we deserve.
our work
How do design reparations look like?
A research in regenerative practices from the Samia community in Kenya. Celebrating and reviving traditions for climate resilience and community cohesion.
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An imaginary travel agency that designs the return of Palestinian refugees to their ancestral towns. It is a speculative and participatory design experience that invites visitors to visualize, not debate, the routes, possibilities, and emotions of return.
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An exhibition and a panel discussion about decolonize design and centering Indigenous Knowledge at Nairobi Design Week.
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A visual design concept and execution that integrates the diversity and strength of natural ecosystems and a global network of communities working on disaster risk reduction.
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about us
Why Design Reparations?
We come together to design and work on projects that can regenerate land and communities depleted by exploitation and oppression.
We are motivated by indigenous and traditional people, local activists and cultural workers who have been caring for and protecting the Earth, its forests, rivers, peoples, stories, and futures.
projects and services
Our projects and circles
Design Reparations works together with several indigenous and local organizations around the world to support their work rooted in relationality and connection. Our partners are leading the work, the scope and the implementation of our projects. We invite and coordinate volunteers that get to learn from traditional and ancestral cultures while working on indigenous-led futures.
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STORIES AND NEWS
Our Stories
Our work is shaped by the people we collaborate with, the experiences we gather and the world around us. Here, we share stories, insights and reflections from our own practice and that of our partners, opening up perspectives on the questions, challenges and opportunities that matter to us.
Reweaving Design: ancestrality, reciprocity, and complexity in practice
Ian Francis Onyango with the designers at the workshop during Dutch Design Week. Photo by Cecilia Scolaro This article emerges from an ongoing conversation between Cecilia and Tiago, founder of Design Reparations, about their shared experiences at Dutch Design Week...
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Do you want to support?
Design Reparations exists because of the dedication of its volunteers. The work we do with organisations is also meant to support the work we donate to indigenous communities and local activists around the world. You can support us in different ways: by volunteering on a specific project, by volunteering for Design Reparations in general or by donating.