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.

PrinciplesMaterials & MethodsPracticesSpaces

Principles

The Makers Series with Tika Sufyan

3 Mar 20256 min read

Tika Sufyan weaves faith, memory, and care into Upcycled Sajada, prayer mats crafted from reclaimed fabric to reconnect people with presence and prayer.

Ikram Hirse

Materials & Methods

The Designer Series with Christopher Downie

27 Feb 20258 min read

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.

Ikram Hirse

Practices

The Filmmaker Series with James Wainman

17 Aug 20255 min read

Filmmaker James Wainman’s Three Colours Green explores Muslim memory and community in Waltham Forest, blending film, faith, and space into visual storytelling.

Tara Nursalim-Paul

Spaces

The Artist Series with Limma Ali

17 Aug 20255 min read

Multidisciplinary artist Limma Ali weaves community, culture, and faith into murals, design, and illustration reimagining mosques as hubs of memory, warmth, and belonging.

Tara Nursalim-Paul

Practices

The Maker Series with Mirna Al-Saadi

24 Aug 20256 min read

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.

Ikram Hirse

SpacesMaterials & Methods

Reflection from London Design Festival 2025: Sacred Ground

18 Oct 20256 min read

Where coffee, colour, and conversation met design reimagining mosques and community spaces through feeling.

Ikram Hirse

Practices

The Designer Series with Plan B Studio

28 Dec 20256 min read

An intimate conversation with Plan B Studio on slowness, belonging, and design as a disciplined practice of care, intention, and attention.

Ikram Hirse

Spaces

The Chaplaincy Series with Reimagining the Mosque Through Presence

11 Jan 20265 min read

A reflective conversation with Shaykha Saleha Islam on chaplaincy, women’s presence, and reimagining mosques as spaces of care, dignity, and belonging.

Ikram Hirse

Materials & Methods

The Architect Series with Reem Taha Hajj Ahmad

8 Feb 20266 min read

A reflective conversation with Reem on designing sacred space through memory, care, and intention and how architecture can hold joy, stillness, and belonging.

Ikram Hirse