Color My Home

Color My Home Art-Making Workshop

Color My Home Art-Making Workshop is a community-based educational and architectural design program which takes participants on a journey to trace, dream, and imagine their personal concepts of home. The program is a collaboration between Rania Qawasma (Daarna) and Yasaman Ismaili (Studio Chahar).

Color My Home workshops guide children who have recently immigrated from their countries to re-imagine the architecture they have inhabited and left behind. Participants also write poems about their homes and transform their memories of home into tangible artwork by building their first ever architectural collage based on their recollections. The visuals and poetry help share experiences that might otherwise be difficult for children to express between languages.

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We partner with refugees, local communities, artists and activists to provide needed resources that can empower refugees to create new homes.