About

Nyangala Zolho has been helping policymakers and the wider innovation community to share and learn from new ideas as part of the Innovation Growth Lab - with a focused effort on gearing policymakers towards experimental methods that can enable better decision making. Having previously worked within the intersection of human rights and technology, and as an avid advocate of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral work that is mission driven, Nyangala has begun to develop tandem practices on decolonial futures; considering what this means for policy contexts. They work from within Science, Technology and Innovation, sectors, alongside the Creative and Cultural industries.

Achievements + experience

  • (2024) Elisava MA Strategic Design - Sensing and sensemaking the world through the lens of power

    (2024) Future Days - Speaker and Panellist on 'Innovation from the Margins'

    (2024) Distributed Design Platform and Make Africa (mAkE) - Designing policy impact for maker's spaces in Europe and Africa

    (2024) IAAC - Masterclass 'Innovation policy systems: The role of design, data and experimentation'

    (2023) CIRCE - The future of cultural and creative industries - collective policy-imagining and making

    (2023) COESO/PROEthics - Shaping participatory futures: What can funders do to facilitate meaningful participation in and with science & innovation

    (2023) Sunland Foundation - (Re)imaging the collective far future of Oslen

    (2022) IED - What can service design teach us about how to solve societal challenges

  • (2024) Decolonial Futures - Driving Design

    (2023) How can policy support the inclusive growth of innovative sectors? - CIRCE, IGL

    (2022) A Comparison of the Characteristics of TAFTIE and RELAI Innovation Agencies - IDB, TAFTIE

    (2022) Navigating Changing Landscapes: The current and future roles of Europeam Innovation Agencies - TAFTIE

    (2021) How to tackle inequality through experimentation - Apolitical

    (2020) Land rights, bushfires and indigenous rights online - Open Democracy

    (2017) A rights-based approach to technology - Open Democracy

  • PhD Design Candidate - Practice-Based Research - BAU-UVic

    MA Global Media and Transnational Communications (Distinction) - Goldsmiths University of London

    BA International Relations (First Class Honours) - Swansea University of Wales

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