Pilgrimage | Notion

As Octavia E. Butler said: “I have a huge and savage conscience that won’t let me get away with things.”

That conscience shapes everything we do at Kongo Square Studio.

Born in diaspora, we design within liminal spaces, following wandering stars along a pilgrimage route toward motherland and matrix-breaking.

Kongo Square is a boutique design research studio rooted in ethical, holistic, and ritualistic practice. We partner with visionaries who embrace dissent, luxuriate in exile, and birth new futures—futures where hospitality and integrity stand as pillars of society.

Our work blends deep empathy, cultural stewardship, and innovative strategy to create design systems that are as transformative as they are grounded. Whether through thoughtful UX research, ethics consultations, or creative storytelling, we help clients build meaningful connections to their communities, histories, and futures.

For those who want sensuality with their liberation, and eroticism with their Land Back, Kongo Square offers a sacred space for intentional design, co-creation, and aligned leadership. Here, your mission finds resonance, and your vision is given room to grow.

Founded by Kayla Love and stewarded by a decentralized node network, we are committed to scaling the studio as a means of supporting our community initiatives and open source projects. By choosing to collaborate with us, you’re proving your solidarity with oppressed groups and our attempts to design and fund sustainable, equitable systems.

If you are prepared to join the pilgrimage, join one of our salons.

Spending the last years traveling slowly from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia in the pursuit of deeper understanding of diversity, spirituality, and cultural heritage preservation and exchange, it’s the personal pilgrimage of our founder that sets the tone for our work.

Blending elements of human computer interaction, AI ethics, user experience design, Indigenous research, curation, business strategy, Afrofuturism, erotic technology, climate justice, healing, community design and management into a holistic framework for ancestral, sustainable development has been the North Star of Love’s practice.

This is polymath design, on pilgrimage.

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