Speaking on a panel organised by Dezeen as part of NeueHouse's Building the Future series, artist and designer Olalekan Jeyifous argued that members of the African diaspora had a unique historical link to the idea of world-building.

Jeyifous was joined on the panel by artist Fabiola Jean-Louis and Tariq Dixon, co-founder of furniture business TRNK to discuss the topic of Afrofuturism.

The talk, titled 'Building the Future: Afrofuturism' was the second in a series of talks hosted by Dezeen in collaboration with NeueHouse throughout 2022 which will explore what comes next in art, architecture and design.

"Those who were brought to the Americas and enslaved, every single thing that we have created has been a new thing, because there just simply wasn't a precedent for it," Jeyifous said.

"We had to draw on our past and our traditions - from the music, to the food, to the clothing, to even systems of behaviour and mannerisms and everything in education, it was all completely new."

"So there's probably no one more fundamentally futuristic in terms of actually building something new than those who are part of the African diaspora" he noted.

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