REIMAGINE Cities through a dreamer’s eyes

Role: Director, Producer

Step into the mind of Olalekan Jeyifous, a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based artist and architect known for crafting afrofuturist worlds that reimagine how cities could look, feel, and function, especially for historically marginalized communities. In this intimate profile, we visit Jeyifous’ studio in the rapidly gentrifying Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, exploring how he blends architecture, VR, collage, 3D modeling, and public art to create vibrant alternate realities. We take a walk with him to see how he collects everyday urban details— graffiti, ghost signs, surveillance tech, or a patch of overgrown sidewalk— and expands them into immersive visual landscapes where communities thrive on their own terms.

“What if our cities were built with everyone in mind from the start?”

–LEk Jeyifous