Who defines care?
This participatory workshop invites attendees to reimagine care beyond institutional healthcare, mapping alternative care networks shaped by refugee, migrant, and diasporic healing traditions.
Through collaborative, mixed media collaging on textiles we will explore how displacement, sanctuary, and decolonial health intersect, centring land-based healing, community-led care, and resistance to medical gatekeeping. The workshop will create an open, inclusive space where participants can visually express their experiences, memories, and journeys through collaborative map-making and creative exploration.
Aimed at sanctuary-seeking students, artists, and activists exploring healing through creative practice, as well as healthcare professionals and researchers interested in inclusive, culturally responsive care models. Also useful for community leaders working in mutual aid, grassroots health justice, and refugee support and open to all artists, designers, UAL students/staffs/alumni working in socially engaged practice.
If you have any access needs, please let us know in advance so we can do our best to support your participation - contact k.pelen@csm.arts.ac.uk
Book your place via Eventbrite.
Learn more about the Sanctuary in Action programme at UAL.
This event is part of Poetics of Care: a festival of Creative Health.
Design by Marcus, Taylor, Eve & Takaya (students of BA Graphic Communication Design)
k.pelen@csm.arts.ac.uk
