This programme brings together three acclaimed artists from South America and Africa to explore Indigenous and diasporic knowledge systems, not as relics of the past, but as living frameworks that challenge how we think about progress and innovation today.

Through short films and artist talks, the programme looks at ancestral knowledge as a form of technological imagination rooted in cosmology, embodiment, and collective memory. These works confront the lasting effects of colonialism and displacement, while offering powerful models of resilience, restoration, and connection between people, and between people and the more-than-human world.

Rather than equating innovation with high-tech advancement alone, this conversation highlights other forms of intelligence: oral traditions, ecological stewardship, and embodied cultural practice. It offers a different lens on what the cities and societies of tomorrow could look like, if care, responsibility, and ancestral wisdom were placed at the centre.

Date: Saturday 17 October 2026
Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Location: Wiels Brussel
Panelists: Buhlebezwe Siwani, Kevin Osepa, and Lorena Solís Bravo
Films screened before each speaker: Eziko by Buhlebezwe Siwani, Lusgarda by Kevin Osepa and myth moth mother by Lorena Solís Bravo
Moderated by: Dr. Edward Akintola Hubbard and Arjon Dunnewind

Image: Lusgarda by Kevin Osepa