Seeds
What is sprouting
The baobab scatters its seeds on the wind. Some will sprout tomorrow, others in a hundred years. Here are my projects under way - each a wager on the future.
Research, innovation, creation: each seed carries a promise of transformation.
Savannah Express
Climate storytelling along the Ewaso Ng'iro corridor, Northern Kenya
A solar-powered mobile studio travels with young Kenyan artists and storytellers, documenting how communities respond to drought, water scarcity and pastoral mobility. Eighteen months, five phases, Nov 2026 - Apr 2028.
ARTS
Agroecology for Resilient Territories in Senegal
A transdisciplinary research-action programme (SOR4D, SNSF + SDC, 2023-2026) that I co-direct with the University of Bern and CREATES. ARTS brings agroecology, territorial action and artistic communication into dialogue to drive the transition of food systems.
Across two Senegalese territories - Bignona in Casamance and Mbour on the Petite Côte - farmers, researchers, local authorities and civil society co-design the transition. Forum theatre, photography (Yaay Dund), video and participatory mapping bring research back to communities and feed public debate.
Mélanzé Creative Hub
A place to create, produce and host
On one hectare of red earth, a creative hub built in raw earth (adobe, bamboo, thatch, fully solar): a recording studio, a publishing workshop, and residencies for artists and researchers.
The project under way: turning this place into a durable, rooted creative infrastructure where music, writing and research-action meet - and hosting other voices who come to create in Senegal.
AgroVoiceS
Voices of the agroecological transition
A media documentation and advocacy project supporting the transition towards sustainable food systems in Senegal. Documentaries, participatory videos, photo reportage and social media campaigns.
From farmer to policymaker, AgroVoiceS gives voice to those driving the transition, through stories that touch, inform and mobilise.
Sparks - AI & Agroecology
Bridging Agroecology and AI
Participatory development of an AI-powered chatbot for agroecological knowledge dissemination in Casamance. Unlike conventional AI tools geared towards industrial farming, this project is co-designed with farmers, extension officers and agroecology experts.
The RAG model integrates global scientific knowledge with local practices, in a multilingual tool (Wolof, French) accessible on basic mobile phones. Innovation in service of knowledge sovereignty.
Les veines ouvertes de la terre
Feature documentary · co-directed with Thomas Grand
Feature-length documentary on land grabbing and the agroecological transition in Senegal. The film gives voice to those on the ground - farmers, researchers, decision-makers - and questions the links between land, food and sovereignty.
Co-directed with Thomas Grand, a senior documentary filmmaker whose work has received more than 80 international awards. Currently in post-production.
Yaay Dund, Regenerating Life
Exhibition-event around the photographs of Raphaël Belmin
An exhibition-event carried by DyTAES at the Monument de la Renaissance Africaine in Dakar (13 Nov - 8 Dec 2024), built around the photographic work of Raphaël Belmin (CIRAD) on Senegalese food systems and the women who sustain them.
As co-director of the ARTS project, I contributed two strands to the programme: a national photo competition (three prize winners) and a series of art-science-society encounters - forum theatre, feminist agroecology roundtable, ciné-débat.
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Past projects
Seeds that sprouted - projects led between 2008 and 2020.