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Credits

VibeLab

Strategic Lead: Mirik Milan
Strategic Oversight: Lutz Leichsenring
Project Lead: Jane Slingo
Research Lead: Rahul Murdeshwar
Research Support: Amir Salem, Kerronia Thomas
Analysis & Writing: Diana Raiselis, Tom Gill
Product Development: Evan Gelders
Data Engineer: Tom Hermann
Coder: Noah Pich
Communications: Tereza Patočková
Creative Direction: Thamar Luthart
Dashboard Design: Jack Waghorn
Dashboard Editor: Richard Foster
Report Design: Janne van de Weijer

ADE

Managing Director: Jan Willem van de Ven
Head of Program: Wiecher Troost
Project Manager: Pietro Ferrari
Head of Marketing & Communications: Danny Houtkamp

City Coordinators

Amsterdam: Rocky van Jaaren
Lagos: Israel Ajayi
New York: Tara Duvivier
São Paulo: Monique Dardenne
Seoul: Daniela Solano
Sydney: Laura J White

Translators

Dutch translator: Aron Friedman
Korean translator: Hanbyeol Jeong
Portuguese translator: Rodrigo Guima

Research participants

Amsterdam

  • Andrew Hiwat
  • Dawn Elizabeth Wil de Jong
  • Helena Naeff
  • Liza Nijhuis
  • Lucia Fernandez Santoro
  • Nanna Vermaas
  • Rex Collins
  • Richard Soesanna
  • Sasha Mendoza
  • Tom Trago
  • Walter Santiago

Lagos

  • Akinkunmi Solomon
  • Alicia Williams-Igwonobe
  • Angel Ukiaghe Igbafe
  • Aniko
  • Bamise Oyetayo
  • Dayo Adeleye
  • ICESSASXIN
  • King Nonso Duke
  • Okpala Uchenna
  • Oluwabiyi Campbell
  • Toochukwu “Tochi” Igboko
  • Uyiosa Ajayi

New York

  • Ali Coleman
  • Ariel Palitz
  • Ariella Villefranche
  • ARMANDO X
  • Benjamin Manzone
  • Charli Lewis
  • Jada Lorraine
  • Jessica Weber
  • Jose Soegaard
  • Khalil Asmall
  • Lucas Washburn
  • Olivia Minick
  • Piotr Orlov
  • Tracy Fortso
  • Vincent Williams

São Paulo

  • Augusto Olivani
  • Caio Taborda Ribeiro da Silva
  • Chiara Tiozzo
  • Felipe Brait
  • Felipe Giacon
  • Francisco Cornejo de Souza
  • Gabriel Accardo de Freitas
  • Indra Haretrava
  • Inti Anny Queiroz
  • Katrevosa
  • Kauê Morais Damaceno
  • Laercio Schwantes Iorio
  • Lei Di Dai
  • Maria Olívia Aporia
  • Natália Consentino
  • Nicolas Cabaneco
  • Pétrus Vargas

Seoul

  • Alan Jeong
  • Daul Jung
  • Jai Hyun
  • Joy Peik
  • Jun Kim
  • Laura Stefu
  • Lindsay Ryklief
  • Maktoop
  • Myongjoon Kim
  • Paola Laforgia
  • Sojeong Ahn
  • Suhyun Youn
  • Professor WoongJo Chang

Sydney

  • Caitlin Welsh
  • Daniel Robertson
  • Helen Henry
  • Jannah Beth
  • Jess Miller
  • Karan Dwivedi
  • Mehmet Ata Bal
  • Oliver Levi-Malouf
  • Ran Fields

Special thanks

NCI Data support: Black Noise Magazine (Lagos)
NCI Community engagement support: D-Edge (São Paulo)

NCI images: The Archives, a photography series accompanying the NCI is an art project by photographer Vladimír Nezdařil. Created at various events between 2025-26, the series uses a portable Xerox machine to scan the crowd. The resulting images capture fragments of rawness, spontaneity and energy present at each specific dancefloor, yet choose to immortalise them with the notoriously rigid, static technology of photocopying.

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