The Affogbolo’s Home by Pierre-Christophe Gam
As part of the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program.
Challenge “Plural Computation”
The selected project
The Affogbolo’s Home
The Affogbolo’s Home is a speculative art project that imagines everyday life in Abuja, Nigeria, in the year 2100, through the eyes of a fictional family. Blending storytelling, architecture, and ancestral wisdom, the project explores how we might eat, play, dream, pray, and love in a future shaped by our dreams.
At its core is a virtual home you can explore in WebVR, accompanied by five large-format photo-collages that come to life through Augmented Reality (AR). When scanned with a smartphone, each artwork reveals hidden layers, memories, sounds, and symbols, offering a poetic glimpse into future ways of living rooted in care and community.
Host institution
Gallery of Code, Abuja (NG)
European partner
GLUON, Brussels (BE)
The artists
Pierre-Christophe Gam
Pierre-Christophe Gam is a conceptual artist, researcher, and immersive storyteller whose work redefines the future by interweaving mythology, technology, and foresight. Trained in architecture at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and Central Saint Martins in London, his practice bridges spatial design, immersive media, and speculative world-building. Drawing from his heritage spanning Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, and Congo, as well as the West African Griot tradition, he transforms communal memory into interactive, participatory experiences, expanding how we engage with the past to shape alternative futures.
As the founder of TOGUNA WORLD, a pioneering digital lab and creative think tank, Pierre-Christophe explores how art, technology, and foresight methodologies can be harnessed to redefine global futures, creating new possibilities for communities across geographies to imagine and actively shape alternative futures.
His research and artistic practice are grounded in decolonial world-building, immersive storytelling, and participatory design, expanding speculative thought beyond regional narratives to consider planetary futures, technological ethics, and cross-cultural storytelling. He is at the forefront of shaping discourse on future-building, cultural sovereignty, and alternative knowledge systems, ensuring that the act of imagining futures becomes an inclusive, collective endeavor.
A recipient of the prestigious Unity for Humanity award, and a research fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, his work has been showcased at leading international platforms including Ars Electronica, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Vitra Design Museum, Addis Foto Fest, the Dubai Future Forum, and the Unseen Photo Festival in Amsterdam
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& Check-out the other selected projects for the Afropean Intelligence Residency Program:
+ Challenge 1: Intercultural AI: Weaving Worlds through Art and Algorithms | “Untangler: Worlds Reimagined” – Peace Olatunji
+ Challenge 1bis: “Decoding Egwu: reclaiming indigenous intelligence through AI, dance and Igbo” – Emmanuel Ndefo & Dan Xu
+ Challenge 4: Psychogeography and the Influence of AI | “Bursting the last bubble” – Tamer Elshabrawy
+ Challenge 5: Archives & Memory | “Adorned memory: Reimagining Egyptian Indigenous Archives Through Jewellery” – Khanya Mthethwa
+ Challenge 6: ZaZi: An African Educational AI Model | “LORAS AS AN ARCHIVE – A LIVING ARCHIVE” – Evans Akanyijuka
+ Challenge 7: Beyond Borders: AI, Climate, and Resource Justice in Africa | “Cry To The Water” – Chipo Mapondera
+ Challenge 8: Digital Lukasa: An Intelligent Archival Tablet | “The Memory Performer: digital reincarnation of Luba wisdom” – Mahoutondji Kinmagbo
+ Challenge 9: Provenance and Social Memory | “TERRITOIRE TISSé: Art Royal Kuba entre tradition et (R)évolution” – Melisa Kayowa
+ Challenge 10: Futurism and Geolocation | “Mobility as Memory: a decolonial AI cartography of Kinshasa” – Chinedum Muotto
+ Afropean Intelligence is bringing together 11 cultural organizations across Africa and Europe:
