In Agbogbloshie, people make it their business to know exactly what's inside.
And here you can see it flying for the first time in Agbogbloshie.
There's a lot we can learn from Agbogbloshie, where scrap collected from city- and nationwide is brought.
Agbogbloshie's scrapyard is famous because it has become
a symbol of the downside of technology: the problem of planned obsolescence.
We have tested the app in Agbogbloshie and are getting ready to open it up to other maker ecosystems.
We prototyped the makerspace kiosk in Agbogbloshie, conceived as the opposite of a school:
a portal into experiential and experimental making that connects local and global and connects making with remaking and unmaking.
Make no mistake about it, there are young hackers in Agbogbloshie-- and I mean that in the very best sense of that
word-- that know not only how to take apart computers but how to put them back together, how to give them new life.
If, in the future, someone tells you Agbogbloshie is the largest e-waste dump in the world,
I hope you can correct them and explain to them that a dump is a place where you throw things away and leave them forever; a scrapyard is where you take things apart.