We imagine new technological futures reflective of everyone being able to see themselves centered in design, safety, joy, and beyond margins.
We build small, decentralized models tailored to specific needs, and imagine alternative futures where technology serves the most marginalized among us.
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This project seeks to develop “sovereign” language technologies for East African languages, through community-centered design and governance practices that facilitate content creation and adaptation for online knowledge repositories (OKRs).
Counteracting the "one giant model for everything" approach by BigTech, by empowering small, community-rooted organizations around the world building task specific models serving their needs. Read this interview and our paper.
In a cozy room filled with enough natural sunlight and adorned with calming art, a team of content moderators begins their day with a mindfulness session. Each desk in the room has a red button that moderators can press for immediate help when the content is too distressing for them.
Broad, near-future speculative pieces designed to de-center dominant narratives about technology and challenge us all to realize that things can be different. These are not alternative realities, they are possible futures.
Be sure to also check out our companion zine workshop series.
Counteracting the "one giant model for everything" approach by BigTech by empowering small, community-rooted organizations around the world building task-specific models serving their needs. Check out the Huniki Federation website for more.
The Imagining Possible Futures workshop series creates space to imagine otherwise. Both online and in-person, we imagine alternative futures in the form of drawings, poetry, prose, multimedia pieces, and more. You can check out our collection of zines in our zine library.
Want to participate in a future workshop? Check out our event calendar, and be sure to follow us on bluesky and instagram for updates.
Be sure to check out our companion Possible Futures blog series here.
We have partnered with lesan.ai and Whose Knowledge? to work on language tech in a manner that does not steal data from communities and supports locally relevant content creation (read how Lesan outperforms Google, and this Deutsche Welle article on the AI language gap).