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Project overview
At the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, I led a strategic workshop based on Futuro, my proprietary foresight methodology and card-based toolkit designed to expand access to future-oriented and decolonial ways of thinking.
Positioned as a project, the initiative operated at the intersection of regenerative innovation and community-led futures, supporting participants in reclaiming agency over technological narratives through locally-rooted perspectives and systemic analysis.
Strategic objectives
The project aimed to equip participants with tools to design technologically-enabled solutions to community-based challenges. The process focused on:
☀︎ Strengthening critical future thinking
☀︎ Reframing local issues through regenerative and socio-technical lenses
☀︎ Developing scalable, culturally grounded concepts
Participants mapped challenges, envisioned desirable futures and translated them into strategic, context-aware interventions.
Key outcomes & reflection
Participants exceeded expectations by generating sophisticated, locally relevant solutions demonstrating strong systems thinking and deep community insight.
Concepts such as genetically engineered trees emitting mosquito-repellent smoke for malaria prevention illustrated their ability to merge indigenous knowledge, environmental intelligence and emerging technologies.
The project reinforced that when innovation is grounded in lived experience and cultural context, technology becomes a catalyst for regenerative and self-determined futures.