 YAPO repository exists somewhere in time and place that we just don't know yet, but for the purpose of launching our project it exists at Bedford Stuyvesant Museum of African Art. We're hoping that the collaboration that we have allows people to understand the significance of artifacts. So looking at traditional artifacts from the past one could understand the societies and cultures from where those artifacts came from. And we hope that by people engaging with our artifacts from the future people could then set a trajectory to the most egalitarian future. The way that the repository's collection is developed is through a series of real-time workshops where participants play this game and they sketch out future objects and then we take these sketches and bring them to life so we actually build the technology so that they're totally functioning real-life objects. From my experience so far collaborating with Salome and IO they've brought in more creative people and it's been a very eye-opening experience. A lot of my pieces deal with a speculative and also something I'm calling reclamation which is this notion of creating space for disenfranchised people of color, people of African descent, not only in the future but also recontextualizing the past and creating spaces in the present that allow for greater understanding of these cultures. The children need to know that they're from genius, that the African art they see, it's tribal art, it's done for a reason to celebrate the ancestors, to celebrate fertility, to get rid of evil spirits. My background is in participatory design so I really like to include people who end up using or playing with whatever I make in the process of making. So from ideation to prototyping to like final outcome, like I want people to be involved in that process with me, so it's really messy. For me it's more fulfilling to work with the community where the community generates ideas and from those ideas we create a product or create an art piece as opposed to me coming up with an idea and sort of imposing that art piece on the community. I've always thought I was a good listener but the LP has taught me to be like an active listener and to be a better facilitator and really set a foundation for our energy coming into this project.