MYLES IGWEBUIKE

Myles Igwebuike is a Nigerian designer, researcher, and cultural strategist whose interdisciplinary practice spans heritage, urbanism and diplomacy. Working between Enugu and London, his work explores memory, space, and identity positioning design as a tool for collective repair and future-making. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, the world’s leading institution for art and design, Myles brings a research-led approach to global design discourse. 

Drawing from his southeastern Nigerian heritage, he founded Njiko, a think tank reimagining cultural heritage through design. Njiko treats heritage data as a living material uncovering occluded narratives, reframing memory, and inspiring new spatial and symbolic futures. His methodology, spanning speculative design, material research, and policy frameworks, is articulated in his TED Talk, “Divergent Thinking as a Survival Strategy.” 

Myles contributed to the curatorial team of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, The Beauty of Impermanence, and was recognized as a rising voice in the Global South’s design futures. He curated and designed the Nigeria Pavilion at the 2025 London Design Biennale, awarded a Special Mention by the international jury. In 2024, Architectural Digest named him one of their AD100 Rising Stars to Watch. 

He serves as a design expert for the UK’s Design Council and as Special Assistant on Transportation to the Governor of Anambra State. He is currently leading the design of a research library in Lagos and an earth factory in Luanda, Angola advancing material experimentation, environmental thinking, and spatial justice. For Myles, design is sacred storytelling world-making rooted in ancestry and plural futures.

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