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Mau Mau

September 20, 2022February 8, 2023
Blog/Digital heritage/History/Innovation/Mau Mau/News/ThinkPiece

Barbed Wire Village – An Exhibition on Forced Villagisation in Colonial Kenya

Historians estimate that approximately 1.2 million Kenyans were forcibly resettled during the Mau Mau emergency. This is in addition to the 80,000 Kenyans who

August 23, 2019October 11, 2022
Blog/Mau Mau/ThinkPiece

Why digital reconstruction? Questions and process

We present these digital reconstructions not as final outputs but as initial visuals that can help us generate and continue conversations on the presence

August 23, 2019September 20, 2023
Digitisation/Innovation/Mau Mau

Torture chamber/ Solitary cell – Mweru Works Camp

The building reconstructed in the 3D model below, was a solitary cell/torture chamber in Mweru detention camp in Nyeri, Kenya. ‘Hardcore’ detainees would be

August 23, 2019September 20, 2023
Digitisation/Innovation/Mau Mau

Watchtower, entrance and trench – Aguthi Works Camp

This 3D model depicts the entrance, trench and watchtower to Aguthi Works Camp in Nyeri, Kenya. Some of the detention camps around Kenya had

August 23, 2019September 20, 2023
Digitisation/Innovation/Mau Mau

Mass Cells – Mweru Works Camp

The buildings reconstructed here are mass cells in what was Mweru works camp. Mass cells could hold approximately 60 detainees in a space measuring

June 7, 2019September 6, 2023
Collaborations/Digitisation/Innovation/Mau Mau/Projects

Mapping & Reconstructing detention camps / villages from the emergency period

The 1950’s Mau Mau revolt and subsequent State of emergency is one of the bloodiest periods in Kenyan history. Declared in October 1952, the

June 3, 2019
Mau Mau

Draft 1 of 3D digital reconstructions – Mau Mau camps

Our first attempt to create digital reconstructions of former Mau Mau camps started in May 2019. With a skilled team of 3 digital creators,

January 7, 2019July 22, 2021
Digitisation/Innovation/Mau Mau

Start of a Journey & Reconstructing Mau Mau camps

The 1950’s Mau Mau revolt and subsequent State of emergency is one of the bloodiest periods in Kenyan history. Declared in October 1952, the

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