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Category Archives: Photography
Mobiles at the Border Post: Anti-Atlas of Borders Exhibition Slides (Jan 2016)
In January 2016, our submission for the Anti-Atlas of Borders Art Exhibition in Brussels was accepted for a commission of 500e. We were thrilled and surprised since we’d never imagined our work on mobile platforms, technology, and the borderland biashara could be considered from the arts and culture point of view. Here is our story […]
Also posted in Africa, African Consumer Market, Afrique francophone, Airtime, Biashara Economics, Business Models, Consommateurs, Consumer Behaviour, Design, Informal & Flexible, Kenya, Marchés africains, Migrant worker, Mobile platform, Platforms, Prepaid Economy & Informal Sector, Research, Systems, Technologie, Technology, Uganda
Tagged anti-atlas of borders, art exhibition, biashara economy, Borderland Biashara, itel, mobile money, mobile money agents, mobile platform, photography, tecno
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Launching Our Digital Documentation Project: Ibadan’s Tailors, Traders, and Textiles by Nigerian/British artist Folake Shoga
After months of hard work, I am very honoured and proud to announced our new digital documentation project by my friend Folake Shoga, a Nigerian/British multidisciplinary artist with more than three decades of experience. She went on a journey of discovery through the twists and turns of the informal value web that holds together West […]
Also posted in Africa, African Consumer Market, Biashara Economics, Business, Consommateurs, Consumer Behaviour, Culture, Design, Ecosystem, Emerging Markets, Fashionomics, Indigenous & Traditional, Informal & Flexible, Mama Biashara, Marchés africains, Marketing, Nigeria, Perspective, Prepaid Economy & Informal Sector, Projects and Reports, Research, Retail in Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Systems, User research, Value
Tagged adire, design, documentary, fashion, folake shoga, ibadan, informal economy, informal sector, nigeria, portfolio, textile, textiles, trade, value web
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Innovation, Ingenuity and Opportunity under Conditions of Scarcity (Download PDF)
In July 2009, I was inspired by working in the Research wing of the Aalto University’s Design Factory in Espoo, Finland, to launch a group blog called REculture: Exploring the post-consumption economy of repair, reuse, repurpose and recycle by informal businesses at the Base of the Pyramid*. Within a year, this research interest evolved into […]
Also posted in Africa, Design, Innovation Planning, jua kali, Kenya, Perspective, Prepaid Economy & Informal Sector, Projects and Reports, Research, Scarcity, Sub Saharan Africa, Systems, Technology, UCSD, User research
Tagged africa, creativity, design, innovation, innovation under conditions of scarcity, invention, jua kali, kenya, photography, user research
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@Prepaid Africa Connecting Dots – October 2015
October was a busy month for us – The African Development Bank hosted their first Innovation Weekend in Abidjan from the 9th to the 11th of October. Our contribution was thinking about the problems we face as the starting point for new venture design. Savvy young people from across Francophone West Africa gathered to conceptualize […]
True Confessions: I was an earnest and idealistic Nokia fangrrl 2006 to 2010
OMG I can’t breathe! Photographed hyperventilating with the guy responsible for my phone’s design, Peter Griffith at the Nokia “Connecting the Next Billion” Emerging Markets Strategy Workshop in London, May 2011. If I thought I could get away with it, I would tiptoe out of the room right now. Michael Davis-Burchat has just yelled out […]
tank man
I can’t find anything online and I didn’t get a chance to get a closeup of the board over there so I have no idea who the artist is. But apparently this is the lifelike statue of the man who stood down a tank in Tiananmen Square. Can’t you feel him drawing in the power […]
Also posted in Culture, Perspective
Tagged netherlands, photography, statue, tank man
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Still green
At the bus stop, rural Holland, August 2013 This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
Houses of Parliament, The Hague
This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
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Crisis Menu offered by Greek restaurant in The Hague
This post was written by niti bhan and rss originates from www.nitibhan.com
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