Journal
The Journal is a space for slow thinking and thoughtful conversation where artists, designers, architects, and cultural thinkers reflect on how spaces are shaped, and how they shape us in return. We explore creative practice as a form of care, design as storytelling, and sacred space as something made and remade through memory, ritual, and community.
The Makers Series with Tika Sufyan
Tika Sufyan weaves faith, memory, and care into Upcycled Sajada, prayer mats crafted from reclaimed fabric to reconnect people with presence and prayer.
The Designer Series with Christopher Downie
In this Designer Series, Christopher Downie reflects on creating Ramadan Spaces—temporary sanctuaries shaped by light, rhythm, memory, and care for prayer, presence, and belonging.
The Filmmaker Series with James Wainman
Filmmaker James Wainman’s Three Colours Green explores Muslim memory and community in Waltham Forest, blending film, faith, and space into visual storytelling.
The Artist Series with Limma Ali
Multidisciplinary artist Limma Ali weaves community, culture, and faith into murals, design, and illustration reimagining mosques as hubs of memory, warmth, and belonging.
The Maker Series with Mirna Al-Saadi
Mirna’s designs begin at home, where she crafts tools of care for her parents, weaving empathy, faith, and imagination into acts of belonging and devotion.
Reflection from London Design Festival 2025: Sacred Ground
Where coffee, colour, and conversation met design reimagining mosques and community spaces through feeling.
The Designer Series with Plan B Studio
An intimate conversation with Plan B Studio on slowness, belonging, and design as a disciplined practice of care, intention, and attention.
The Chaplaincy Series with Reimagining the Mosque Through Presence
A reflective conversation with Shaykha Saleha Islam on chaplaincy, women’s presence, and reimagining mosques as spaces of care, dignity, and belonging.
The Architect Series with Reem Taha Hajj Ahmad
A reflective conversation with Reem on designing sacred space through memory, care, and intention and how architecture can hold joy, stillness, and belonging.