PinnedInUX CollectivebyAbdul Semakula·Jul 10, 2023What’s the place of ‘PLACE’ in regenerative design?80% injustices happen at the design stage because we focus on the ‘Story of the Individual’, regeneration wants us to shift to the story ofA response icon2A response icon2
Abdul Semakula·May 29Flow with Nature: This Folktale is a Masterclass in SustainabilityToday’s sustainability predicament can be summed up as: we know the solutions, but we prefer to let the hypnotizing pill of…
Abdul Semakula·Jan 4Regenerative Placemaking: Understanding the Colonial Context of DevelopmentDecolonising the Human Role
Abdul Semakula·Jan 11, 2025What is the meaning of this dream? with futuristic-tech + Indigenous activity?I’ve gotten into the habit of recording vivid dreams, so this one is unexpectedly interesting. It weaves our futuristic hyper-tech culture…
Abdul Semakula·Jan 11, 2025What could Dreams, Collective Imagination, and Tech enable in the future?I had this vivid dream sometime last year during a period I was participating in a Collective Imagination Huddle organised by Collective…
Abdul Semakula·Jan 11, 2025Autonomous vehicles, Metaverse, Neural Implants. A Dark Unsustainable Future of MarketingI’m publishing this today but it was written 3 years ago.
Abdul Semakula·Apr 13, 2024Should we base development on Generalisations OR Uniqueness?I’m reading this World Bank report on Greening African Cities where they do research on a handful of cities, find general patterns, and…
Abdul Semakula·Oct 21, 2023How can complementary currencies scale?This is the third of four provocations I generated from the short course Finance for a Regenerative Economy at Capital Institute.
Abdul Semakula·Oct 15, 2023Leveraging the price point to inspire Market Pre-distribution.This is the second of four reflections on the course Finance for a Regenerative Economy at Capital Institute. It was prompted by the…
Abdul Semakula·Oct 11, 2023Building our capacity to self-organise around common interests.We can’t build a participatory democracy infrastructure without common assets or resources that people interact with on a daily.