The Founders Pillars & The Power Loom

The Fovnder’s Pillars & The Power Loom is an Augmented Reality (AR) memorial and smart fabric visualisation honouring the six enslaved individuals once owned by MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) founder William Barton Rogers.

Drawing from six African regions, each represented by a distinct textile and its associated myth/story, the project, conceptualised by Meghna Singh, Lesiba Mabitsela and Simon Wood, weaves decolonial tropes and tales of freedom-making practices into AI-generated magical imaginings that fuse classical colonial architecture with African futuristic storytelling.