Artist, Kairos Futura
Willie Ng’ang’a is a Kenyan STEAMer and environmentalist who believes in the power of collaborative multidisciplinary approaches in addressing the world’s current and emerging challenges. Through a focus on locally available materials and know-how, he believes that the intersection of arts and science offers a unique lens through which to imagine, explore, prototype, and build alternative futures.
As a member of the arts futurist organization Kairos Futura, he has taken part in projects such as the “The Safari Studio” (2026), “The Wild Future Lab” (Grand Prize winner of the S+T+ARTS Prize Africa 2025), “Hakuna Utopia: In Search of Micro-Utopias” (2024), and the “Nairobi Space Station” (2023), with outputs presented at Ars Electronica and Milan Design Week, among other platforms.
His work has been published in Forbes magazine, Fair Planet, DakArtNews, Art Africa Magazine, InNairobi, and the International Journal of Advanced Research.
