Afrofuture World-build: Safety & Surveillance
Afrofuture World-Build: Safety & Surveillance
What does safety feel like in the future? Who defines it? Who is protected and who is watched?
In this Afrofuture World-Build, we will explore the tension between safety and surveillance through an Afrofuturist lens. Across the globe, technologies of monitoring—cameras, data tracking, predictive systems, biometrics—are expanding in the name of protection. Yet for Black communities, surveillance has often meant control rather than care.
Together, we will imagine beyond inherited systems of policing and punishment. What would a world look like where safety is community-generated, consent-based, and rooted in dignity? How might African and diasporic traditions of collective care, spiritual protection, and accountability inform new infrastructures of security?
Through guided visualization, speculative storytelling, and collective design, we will travel into a future where safety is not enforced, but cultivated. A future where technology aligns with liberation, not domination. A future where we feel safe in our bodies, neighborhoods, and data.
Come prepared to stretch your imagination, question assumptions, and co-create new architectures of protection.
The future of safety is ours to design.