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From Wahu Kagwi to Kendrick Lamar to Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, these great minds have brought immense change to the world and subsequently reaped the benefits including fame and fortune.

This is just an example that shows how being innovative can develop a great product changing the lives of many is society.

To a greater degree, every aspect of our lives in a built urban environment is affected by design or a lack thereof. Be it the houses we live in, the roads we drive, the technology we use, the clothes we wear, the seats we are currently sitting on as we read this. All of that is a result of design.

Looking over Nairobi’s cityscape it would be easy to conclude that there is no common design language that unites us. Whatever existed as colonial planning is being replaced by the city’s thirst for modernity and economic advancement. But is this progress inclusive of its people?

This is why Airtel Kenya in partnership with Nairobi based UP Magazine are bringing to you DXD (Design by Disruption) awards, first of its kind in Kenya, and disruptive designers are being called to submit their bodies of work.

The competition aims at awarding young, creative talents in Kenyans who are using solution based thinking to overcome challenges. It will be held in November 2015.

“We are aiming to bring design to the forefront on creating solutions for Kenyans. By highlighting what various disruptors are doing we aim to encourage others to stop thinking inside the proverbial box and expand their scope of vision", Sapna Chandaria, UP Magazine.

Who are these disruptors?

“Disruptors are innovators that uproot and change the way we think, behave and interact with our environment”.

PETER N Digital Media, Mdundo.com