Following on from a fantastic interaction with Calotropis Radio at Kilele 25, Kilele and Santuri developed a project to continue this exciting development into the next edtion and across the year.

Nairobi’s urban landscape is rapidly transforming, with rising inequalities in access to space, culture, and creative opportunity – particularly among youth and informal communities. In this shifting environment, “The Mall” in Westlands has become an exceptional example of grassroots cultural regeneration.

Once Kenya's first shopping mall, The Mall has organically evolved into a unique cultural microcosm: no longer a commercial hub in the traditional sense, but now a creative home to a constellation of artists, creative technologists, musicians, skaters, and cultural organisations.

The project Frequency Shift builds on this momentum by responding to both opportunity and need. It recognises that creative communities have already claimed this space, fostering a self-organized ecosystem driven by freedom of expression, collaboration, shared resources and experimentation. However, these informal cultural systems often lack structural support, documentation, and (international) recognition. The project addresses these gaps directly by formalizing and amplifying existing cultural and technical infrastructures through radio, immersive technology, mentorship and artistic exchange.

Read more: https://santuri.org/Frequency-Shift