Yii·ya is Luganda for to innovate, to find a new way of doing things. The film grew out of the hospital research behind the Kangaroo Chair into a critique of Uganda’s import culture: what is a foreign product worth if it is never adapted to the place where it lands?
YIIYA premiered in Belgium and the Netherlands and is used in lectures at TU Delft. A crowdfunded trip back to Kampala made it possible to show the film to the designers and craftsmen in it, and their feedback shaped the final edit. Watch it at yiiyadesign.com.
