Arts Thread

This project looks into how individuals re-engage with their new places of living and establish a sense of belonging and place, from a migrant’s perspective, in the 21st Century. Investigating how Hong Kong people in London are coming together as a diaspora to adapt, create and combine their new Hong Kong, their own "alternative living rooms"- their homing practices. Through the embroidering of flexible, portable, and scalable structures, it allows the community to appropriate the preconditioned spaces, enabling an ongoing engagement with enclosures and space. Looking between the freedom and limitations of adapting in the domestic and the city, for new non-hierarchical spaces of collectivity to be created. This project aims to construct or rather embroider, scalable and portable spaces of both my introspective world, and the diasporic community’s, collective mobile spaces of security. Enabling portable living rooms that are temporary and migratory, but through their architecture creates spaces between the domestic and the city for a sense of ownership, cohesion, togetherness and belonging, forming their homing practice. Of Places to dwell, for the re-creation of the memories of daily life. Creating umweltens, where gatherings, debating, playing, living, rituals, ceremonies, and more can occur. Rebuilding new senses of belonging, whilst allowing them to leave imprints of inhabitation and life onto the city of London. Alternative living rooms. Embroidering belonging.