WoeLabs

Installed in August 2012, WoeLab is the first free laboratory of social and technological innovation of Togo, set up within the framework of the urban utopia Lome HubCite Africaine developed by the platform LAfricaine dArchitecture and its creator Sename Koffi Agbodjinou. HubCite is an alternative and participative urban planning project that questions the classical regulatory and elitist approaches by proposing a model where the townspeople themselves take charge of the destiny of their neighborhood. This is thanks to the installation in a given territory of a network of proximity hub-hubs, easily replicable, open to all, promoting the spirit of sharing and incubating a technology #LowHighTech that can easily permeate the most modest layers of the population. The small people having recovered, thanks to the frequentation of these places, the springs of the collective mobilization, reconquered on the duration, the ability to think, project and manufacture by themselves the city of ...