Linda Dounia is a designer and artist. 

She uses play and co-creation to imagine technology that is more accessible and less extractive. 

She is Head of Design at Playlab, an education nonprofit building open AI infrastructure for educators. She believes that the future of education will be defined by how the cooperation between educators and intelligent systems is designed. Rather than build AI that does the work for you, she experiments with how AI can be a credible partner in teaching and learning. 

In 2023, Linda was named to the TIME100 AI list for her work on speculative archiving: building AI models that help us remember what is lost in training data. In 2024, she received Mozilla's RISE25 award for her work in AI.


linda@playlab.ai
linda.rebeiz@gmail.com

    ABOUTWORK

    A NEW FUTURE FOR GHANA’S MUSEUMS 
    ANO x GHANA MUSEUMS BOARD

    In 2020, the Presidential Committee on Ghana's Museums and Cultural Heritage was appointed to propose new policies for the governance and organisation of The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board responsible for Ghana’s museums and cultural heritage. As the designer for this project, I was responsible for creating the final report, its website, and social media communication. At the start of the project, my collaborator and I also designed a workshop bringing together all the members of the committee to define a vision for the report. The workshop featured some speculative design activities to imagine what the museum of the future might look like in Ghana. 



    The remit of the Committee was to investigate radical new ways of presenting narratives, as well as engaging communities from across social divides in Ghana, so that they might see themselves properly represented in their museums. The Committee was run on behalf of the Ghanaian Government by ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge based in Accra. The report by this committee outlines new curatorial, architectural, financial, structural possibilities for our museums, monuments and national parks.

    The report can be read in full here.            

    Some of the social media assets created to promote the report’s release and highlight some of the key arguments made by the report’s contributors.