hello and welcome Arved @coloursinside
As @alberto mentioned your timing is perfect, as we are now moving towards experimenting in Morocco an openvillage node where we will live and work together for a while.
If you are interested you can join us either with one of your own projects, you can write more about them 
they seem quit in line with what people do around here, or as an industrial designer, you can join Matthias in designing the coffee sorter project for example.
by the way we are having a community call tomorrow Wednesday at 18:00 CET at this google hangout and @winnieponcelet will probably be there to talk about the openinsulin project, this could be interesting to you as you seem to be working on another biohacking project.
I like the idea of storytelling and future news, actually @nadia used this method in a workshop with the participants in a workshop in Egypt during the futurespotters project, and it was really nice to read the results. Also check this small piece by @matthias on the future of openvillage
btw I am hazem,from Egypt, currently in Berlin, been part of this community for about 4 years now, and I think you will find a lot of interesting stuff here in edgeryders as this is mainly, as you described it, a community of “transformation/change agents”