A handmade tea set with two mugs, two plates and two spoons, exploring the bonding over culture shock act that migrants often experience. The four archive publications are the recorded statements taken from my own conversations with other migrants on the theme of culture shock, it is the result of the act performed with the tea set. The reseach behind this project explores how the migrant community bonds over common experiences. This project feeds into the thrive as a community movement.

A pack with one publication and 22 definition cards exploring the key terms connected to migration. The reseach behind the project is inspired by the widely known Tarot card game, this is connected to my own heritage and personal experiences. The publication showcases a series of interactive exercises - alike the original Tarot card game - that join the cards and its definitions. Each card, illustrated, demonstrates a different key term such as, culture shock or border control. All definitions were informed by the reseach conducted for “The Migrant Paper” in response to the hostile environment towards the migrant community and how it feeds to this community’s thrive to survive culture.

In two laguages, - english and portuguese - a newspaper publication exploring the hostile environment towards the migrant community and how it feeds to this community’s thrive to survive culture. The text shows a detailed and informed piece of research exploring the theme supported by images and illustrations. This text piece connects to a wider interactive project that further explores how we can educate an audiece in the matters of this theme.

Immigrant, The Label consists of two shirts, one pair of pants and whole lot of labels inspired by the action practiced by the governments everywhere on labeling migrants. This satire project showcases a mixture of attached labels and typetaken from/ inspired by the actual government papers given to migrants in the UK. The research behind the project showcases the prejudice and restrictions caused by this labelling effect in today’s society. The Lookbook mimics a case file to simulate how miss-interpreted migrants are to the governemnt circle.

‘But who designed it?’ is a graphic campaign that brings attention to artists and designers that create the objects, artworks and products we use to decorate our spaces with and get norecognition. This is a satire to the dupe movement so used by multi-manufacture organisations that under-represent artists and designers. The posters and billboard use a strong visual of propaganda that questions the people’s curiosity on artists and designers around them. This project is part of the “Buy at the Source” movement abolishing the under-representation of resellers.

Community within a community. Two sets of illustrated postcards that aim to share knowledge on how communities are created as well as encourage the building of that community in itself. With six postcards per set, each one aims to represent a different way of association to a community. The colour set is ready to be written on and sent to its receptor, however the black and white set encourages personalisation, making these more personal to its sender and reciever. The reaserch behind the project was inspired by the social experiment that explores creating a bond between people consequently creates a community.

A meditation podcast aimed for people suffering with agoraphobia to give them the traveling experience, without them having to leave their “safe zone”. The podcast encourages everyone to send their own recordings in order to make the project from the community to the community. The first episode showcases a narrated bus ride on the 171 from Vestry Road to Elephant and Castle Station stops, filled with raw and original sounds taken in the commute. The research behind the project is influenced by the increase in the population suffering from this type of anxiety disorder that was expressed during the 2020 pandemic.