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VIRTUAL PRESENCE


VIRTUAL PRESENCE

At the Crea-Tech Ethio-France Forum held on April 22, 2026, inside the Alliance Ethio-Française compound, a team member sets up a virtual reality experience designed to bring the Tayitu Cultural & Educational Center  located in front of St. George Square to life. Created by Qesem Creatives, the project demonstrates how architectural documentation can evolve beyond static drawings into fully interactive environments. Through the use of VR technology, viewers are able to explore spatial layouts, design details, and the overall atmosphere of the site before it physically exists or without being physically present. The setup process itself reflects the growing role of digital tools in architecture and storytelling, where designers are not only building structures but also crafting experiences that allow audiences to engage with spaces in a more intuitive and immersive way.

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DIG ZONE

A fleet of heavy-duty excavators, bulldozers, and dump trucks lines the muddy banks of a river near the German Square area. The concentrated presence of machinery signals the scale and speed driving the city's Corridor Development Program. The aggressive infrastructure push is reshaping the capital's urban form, but the intensity of earthworks at the river's edge also exposes a fragile tension. Rapid transformation and environmental protection sit side by side, each pulling against the other...


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BROKEN LIN

A heavily damaged utility pole lies across a pedestrian sidewalk in the Gofa Camp neighborhood, with loose wiring exposed and a crushed metal sheet fence nearby. The scene points to a disrupted urban landscape where basic infrastructure repair has lagged behind visible damage. The lingering wreckage underscores growing concerns over delayed responses to hazardous public property failures...


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VEST WAIT

Revenues Bureau personnel, identifiable in branded vests and body cameras, stand in a dense commuter queue at the Qera taxi terminal. Their roles are rooted in field enforcement and policing the informal economy, yet their off-duty reality looks no different from the citizens they regulate. The capital's strained public transport system turns routine commuting into a shared struggle, where municipal employees and the wider workforce wait side by side, exposed to the same delays, congestion, a...