African Design Centre
MASS transforms bold ideas into groundbreaking architecture and landscapes, challenging the status quo for lasting impact. Operating with a hybrid model, MASS provides world-class design services for social progress while investing philanthropically in underfunded areas. Rooted in research, visionary thinking, and local knowledge, their global interdisciplinary team of designers, engineers, and activists creates transformative civic spaces that reflect local voices, history, and culture. MASS views design as a catalyst for change, addressing systemic problems to heal and strengthen communities, connecting people to the land, one another, and a greater sense of possibility.
Design in Africa: MASS empowers Africa-based and African Diaspora designers to lead equitable, regenerative development, shaping a just, sustainable, and prosperous future that impacts global issues.
Abundant Futures: Designing for human and planetary flourishing, MASS tackles unsustainable development by building practices that restore landscapes, eliminate forced labor, regenerate biodiversity, and embed care into the built environment, honoring ecological limits.
Public Memory and Memorials: MASS creates spaces that pursue justice and inspire collective action. They reimagine public memory, designing memorials, monuments, and civic spaces that honor untold stories, foster learning, dialogue, action, and joy, making justice visible and cultivating belonging.
