Codesign Africa

Africa holds the assets of the future: vast land with clean-energy potential, hundreds of millions of young people, deep cultural heritage, and a powerful informal economy. Yet our cities are not built around these assets - they overlook the people who sustain them and the ways they actually live and work. As visitors and returnees seek more authentic ways to experience African cities, they encounter the same limited, unrepeatable experiences, while many young workers live far from opportunity, cannot afford or desire ownership, and are pushed to leave—for abroad or a few major cities—in search of mobility and dignity, draining cities of their workforce. Culture remains locked in singular public buildings, unable to scale into living, shared environments, making authenticity, community, and upward mobility increasingly inaccessible. Even as regional integration grows, Africa’s cities and communities still limit who people can become. So we are creating agile, culturally authentic worlds - through furniture-scale assets, flexible stays, movable homes, and crafted experiences - that give young people the freedom to live, work, and thrive wherever opportunity takes them, in a world that is no longer fixed.