Home As Harvest
Es Devlin Studio x UNHCR
Storytelling - Set Design - Interactive Design
This project was made in response to a brief set by Es Devlin’s studio: what is home? This was a brief looking at the UNHCR, the UN committee which oversees refugees, and the refugee map. This was a project about immersive storytelling. Finding different ways to share individual stories but also tell a broader story of refugees and the heritages that they come from. We defined out project as Home as Harvest. It focused on the importance of flora in heritage. We used plants as a way of data mapping, looking at craft traditions and oral and musical traditions. Harvest, a universal theme, changed through traditions, geography and culture; represented through time in various different ways.
We created an instillation that introduced the topic of home and refugee as a broad sense, looking at quantitive data and as you walk through it becomes more and more personal, exploring cultural heritage and personal stories.
Group Project with Sarah Almutlaq , Saskia Keogh, Nada Bakhatmah, Eve Lipkin, Elena Jewsbury