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Since returning from Za’atari in February I’ve been trying to making sense of my experience. Trying to connect what’s being lived there, to what’s being lived here in London. Brexit. Walls. Cochroaches. Migrant crisis. Illegalness. Hostile Environments. Grenfell. Climate Emergency. Extinction Rebellion. And the threads that connect them? I’m working on this, I know they’re there but capturing the complexity of my feelings about here and there in words permanently tied to a pa

It’s a well talked and well written about element of the human condition, the search for belonging; in terms of both a physical place and also a space within ourselves in which we are content and loving. Yet within the current global context which sees people being forced from their homes and communities the search for this sense belonging feels even more pressingly political and poignant. Then there’s this idea about belonging in terms of ownership, us belonging to something

Tiger Girls show their LOVECOAT creations, photo by UNHCR Jordan/Za’atari Camp This week saw CSF’s Prof. Helen Storey return from her fourth trip to the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Helen started working with those living at camp in 2016 after she was gifted a UNHCR decommissioned refugee tent. From the tent Helen created the ‘Dress For Our Time’, a project which uses the power of fashion to communicate and act upon some of the world’s most complex issues, notably climate