. Ahmed Abokor | Open Restitution Africa

Ahmed Abokor is product designer and creative consultant. He has spent most of his career in digital advertising and experiential design. He has a versatile and expressive approach to visual communication, specialising in visual identities and conceptual design thinking. In 2021, Abokor co-founded the virtual restitution project Looty with Chidi Nwaubani. Named after a dog taken from China and given to Queen Victoria as a gift, the project contributes to the charged conversations around restitution in a witty and anarchic way. Looty produces NFTs of looted objects in major institutions and sells them, with 20 percent of the proceeds going to grants for young African artists. Looty uses an entirely legal process that sends representatives into institutions to digitally capture looted artifacts, render them in 3-D, and create NFTs from them. The next stage of the project will be the building of a virtual museum in the metaverse to house the reclaimed artifacts, as well as expansions into augmented reality and merchandise. The hope is to extend the project globally, creating a family of digital looters to add to the virtual museum.

Ahmed Abokor is product designer and creative consultant. He has spent most of his career in digital advertising and experiential design. He has a versatile and expressive approach to visual communication, specialising in visual identities and conceptual design thinking. In 2021, Abokor co-founded the virtual restitution project Looty with Chidi Nwaubani. Named after a dog taken from China and given to Queen Victoria as a gift, the project contributes to the charged conversations around restitution in a witty and anarchic way. Looty produces NFTs of looted objects in major institutions and sells them, with 20 percent of the proceeds going to grants for young African artists. Looty uses an entirely legal process that sends representatives into institutions to digitally capture looted artifacts, render them in 3-D, and create NFTs from them. The next stage of the project will be the building of a virtual museum in the metaverse to house the reclaimed artifacts, as well as expansions into augmented reality and merchandise. The hope is to extend the project globally, creating a family of digital looters to add to the virtual museum.

Ahmed Abokor

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