RDS
Who We Are
We are researchers based in Kenya from the disciplines of Anthropology, Art History, Data Science, Gender Studies, Media Studies and Science and Technology Studies; coming together to explore how people push back against the systems that decide whose knowledge counts and where it circulates.
Moving through PECE
This 'Database as Book' connects diverse artifacts, from AI to protests, to reveal how infrastructures shape knowledge. Moving beyond linear chapters, it treats technical systems as political sites of struggle. By blending the book’s authority with the relational logic of a database, it invites you to navigate spatially, uncovering patterns of power and resistance across diverse domains.
Essay Highlights
Explore a curated selection of data essays that blend research, lived experience, and diverse artifacts. Each piece invites you to question, connect ideas, and engage with evolving conversations on knowledge and context.
Our core activity areas
Collective Analysis Across Domains: How do the knowledge infrastructures in this case enable or foreclose those typically outside power structures to re-member their agency?
In this curated analysis, we aim to build a comparative, collaborative understanding of assumptions about “knowledge” in our…
