Towards Reparative Futures

As movement-builders and organizational innovators, every day, we create spaces with intentionality and care.

It is not an easy task, though, and sometimes, unintentionally, we end up replicating systems that are reinforcing power inequalities, extracting from ourselves and other beings. We believe that designing a reparative future requires collective reckoning with history, redistributing power, and rooting our work in reciprocity.

Join Mulika Afrika’s founder Paul Ole Leitura (Maasai community leader), and the Design Reparations for:

- The colonial and exploitative traps in creating movements —and how to dismantle them in practice

- Maasai design legacies as living systems of sustainability, artistry & Community

- What reparations look like when Indigenous knowledge leads the process.

Why Attend?

✔️ Unlearn design’s harmful defaults with Maasai perspectives on land, design and value.

✔️ Connect with a global community of practitioners building reparative futures.

✔️ Leave with one actionable step to align your work with justice.

✔️ Learn about practices for equitable co-creation.

Who’s This For?

- Designers, Creatives and ready to challenge industry extraction

- Equity practitioners and organizational innovators

- Social innovators

- Artists & storytellers

- Anyone interested in shaping their lives and ecosystems with care and reciprocity.

About the organisations and facilitators

Mulika Afrika is dedicated to improving the well-being of the Maasai community through healthcare, education, economic empowerment, and sustainability. By blending indigenous knowledge with modern practices, we enhance livelihoods and promote lasting change.

Design Reparations fosters global solidarity between designers & Indigenous communities. 

• Paul Ole Leitura is a Maasai activist for human rights from Ololosokwan, Ngorongoro, Tanzania, passionate about serving his community, particularly children, women, and youth. Since 2004, he has been dedicated to providing health, psychosocial support, and assistance to those in need, advocating for the rights of the indigenous Maasai community in Tanzania.
• Tiago Vilas Boas is a senior designer, network weaver, and co-founder of Design Reparations, whose work focuses on the intersection of design, social change, and systems transformation. He specializes in equity, decolonization, participatory facilitation, and responsible design.
• Cecilia Scolaro is an educator, a consultant for Responsible Design, and Co-founder of Design Reparations. She focuses on Responsible Design to prioritize respect, social equity, and sustainability in the design of businesses, products, and services.

Join Us!

It’s a positive step to align your work with justice and reciprocity in creating reparative futures.

Let's make the Networks Festival sustainable
The Networks Festival is a self-funded initiative by Fito Network and Greaterthan. We want the festival to be accessible to all, while also meeting the material needs of our organizing team and session hosts. This is why we have chosen a gift economy approach, whereby we invite you to donate to the sessions you attend within capacity. 

How much shall I contribute? 

We ask you to "give the most you can without overstretching or resentment”. 

The right amount will be very different for everyone. There are three donation tiers to guide your decision: 

• Sustainability: 30 € | If everyone contributes this amount, we meet the sustainability needs of our team.
• Supporter: 45 € and above | Support others to attend.
• Accessibility: 0 to 30 € | Contribute what you can.

Learn more about "Contribution within Capacity" and the organizing team's needs.

About the Networks Festival 

A six-week global gathering to connect, imagine, and rewire how change happens. Online | May 12 - June 22, 2025.

Networks, movements and networked organizations are driving deep change.

Around the world, we experience their impact every day.

There is an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge and experience. Plenty of methods exist on leveraging collaboration and relationships for change.

But more leaders and networks remain isolated - with more questions than answers. People feel in the dark. Resources are scarce. Going it alone is no longer possible.

The networks festival is changing that.