Design for our Lives
Uganda X Tanzania X MIT D-LabOct 3, 2025

Watch the trailer
This new documentary features four stories of East African innovators and the way they have used MIT D-Lab's Creative Capacity Building trainings to shape the future of their communities.
Featuring special guest Johnson Jacka, Founder and Managing Director at Greenfoot Africa (Tanzania), the following activities will be available to attendees before and after the screening and panel:
- Prototype exhibits from East African innovators featured in the film
- VR experiences powered by Samsung smartphones, transporting you to Tanzania and Uganda
- Interactive AI + Arduino coding station
Panel Speakers
Johnson Jacka
Founder and Managing Director, Greenfoot Africa.
Will join via Zoom.Aditya Mehrotra
MIT PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering); former D-Lab student; former co-instructor for D-Lab's Hardware Design for International Development class mentor for Greenfoot Africa.
Sanjna Ravichandar
MIT SM '24: former D-Lab student: former ICT instructor for Design for Second Life Innovations.
Amy Smith
MIT D-Lab Founding Director
Lulu Tian
MIT ’22: Filmmaker and Director, Design for Our Lives.
Libby McDonald (moderator)
MIT D-Lab Lecturer and Associate Director for Practice.
Partners
Produced by MIT D-Lab and supported by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Samsung Electronics, the Council for the Arts at MIT, and the Morningside Academy for Design (MAD).
With thanks to: Kulika Uganda, Twende, and the Youth Social Advocacy Team. Supported by: Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Samsung Electronics, Council for the Arts at MIT, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Deisgn (MAD).
Accessibility
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