The Exhibition

The exhibition explored systemic urban risk in the context of rapid densification.

It starts from the idea that risk does not emerge from isolated hazards, but from interconnected systems shaped by high-rise living and the infrastructures that sustain it.

It asks: How does increasing density reshape risk, infrastructure, and everyday life — and how can communities and institutions respond systemically?

Learn more about the project

Or check out a digital version of the exhibition below ↴

April 23, 2026 • 9am – 4pm • @Itere, Pipeline

Our choice of location was intentional: on the street in Pipeline, between high-rise tower blocks where these systemic dynamics are lived and produced. It grounds the work in the everyday environment where risks are assembled through overlapping infrastructures, social practices, and urban form.

We invite you to see and engage with the idea of systemic risk in context and surface unseen connections first-hand, with the hope of shifting perceptions of risk from commonplace and accepted to alarming, up close, and personal.

Systemic risks require systemic responses.

We foreground citizen scientists’ testimonies, centering community practice and knowledge, and connect our findings to policy, governance, and city making in Nairobi as well as rapidly densifying African cities more broadly.

The exhibition calls for a shift from isolated fixes to systemic change.

From top-down planning to community-informed governance, and from reactive crisis response to anticipatory resilience. SEE Risk asserts that understanding and addressing systemic urban risk is not only a technical challenge but a question of justice, visibility, and collective responsibility.