A young second generation Asian woman in a telephone box surrounded by the frayed remnants of a traditional rug.

Artist: Komal Aleem Title: Calling Home This piece represents my personal experience of feeling disconnected from my heritage. Many reasons for this include: being a second-generation immigrant, living in the UK, and being away from distant family due to diaspora. I sometimes feel like I do not get to connect with my culture in the same way others do. I used a telephone booth to show 'me' calling home. Alongside this, the traditional rug being ripped and fading away is a metaphor for my culture being slowly ripped away. It's my personal cultural experiences, that I am sure others can relate to, that make me human.

A tapestry of squares each celebrating the different cultures of a class of 17 year olds at https://wqe.ac.uk

Two canvases with brown hands with bracelets on their wrists

While I was there I spoke with the academics, who like me shared tangled genetic ancestry and current families. A richly diverse conversation #DMUHub #BeingHuman2025

Appliqué work on top on skirt crimson

A knitted house on wheels made of buttons. Each of the rooms has furniture also on wheels

ARTIST: DEVIKA BAHADUR TITLE : HOME ON WHEELS This project draws on the metaphor of the *portable home where migrants often recrente a sense ot home not through permanence, but through portable objects, aesthetics and gestures. that remind them of their roots. The wheels urn this house into a moving vessle capable a carrying life, culture and memory acrose time and place.

Collage of household goods

Passing through the Highcross Cathedral of Consumerism, I came across #DMUHUB #BeingHuman2025, art works celebrating our diverse city, these made by ALevel art students. The Home on Wheels spoke to my peripatetic childhood. #RefugeesWelcome