Jennifer Wolfe

Designer

I lead design and development of the GlobalXplorer° Antiquities Registry, built on the Ethereum blockchain to prove provenance, establish archaeological sites as living labs, decentralize ownership of antiquities, and tokenize citizen education in archaeology. We’re using satellites, blockchain and dna storage to create an off-planet registry of earth’s humanity. Supported by Tata Trusts and ConsenSys Ventures, and part of GlobalXplorer° (Sarah Parcak’s 2016 TED Prize), it will launch in India in 2019. I’m also an EIR (Expert in Residence) at SOSV and for the past 8 years have been a Design Advisor to the TED Fellows program. I was a co-organizer and design lead for Maker Faire Africa, which was chosen by President Obama as one of his ‘Top 50 Global Initiatives’ of 2014. I’ve been a speaker and curator of exhibits on the Maker Movement internationally, including the Istanbul Design Biennial, New Museum’s IdeasCity, Lime Wharf London, Afrofuture Milan, the YALI Fellows Summit, and advised the U. S. State Department on a visiting makers program. I started my professional self at Saatchi Worlwide, working on Kodak Motion Picture and DuPont, attended NEW LAB: New York School for Design & Science, and grew up outside Detroit in a family of factory workers. My personal project is the Lagos Brewing Co., which I founded with TED’s Emeka Okafor and Nigerian food blogger, Ozoz Sokoh (KitchenButterfly). We’re craft brewing Nigerian beers made from west African heritage ingredients.

Creativity will be what backs future currencies.

We have as much responsibility to protect our planet for the generations of our past, as we do for the generations of our future.

Design, Emerging technologies and the new aesthetics, Innovation Systems, Maker Movement

Building things. I built a 15-foot telescope with my father when I was 10-years old.