Domestic Duster Workshops

Working in collaboration with Vanessa Marr, founder of the Domestic Dusters project, we are running a series of craftivist workshops for ten refugee and asylum-seeking women in London. These pilot workshops aim, through the eternally under-estimated craft of embroidery, to co-create an empowering toolkit for refugee women to share with their own communities. Collectively, we will employ the Domestic Dusters stitch-based methodology to explore women’s experience of displacement and homemaking, calling for their individual rights as women to be recognised.

This series of collaborative workshops combine Marr’s innovative and inherently feminist approach with Makani’s mission, producing an opportunity for a group of refugee and asylum-seeking women to embrace the spirit of protest, empowerment and community through craft. This pilot project is the first step towards a larger project which will invite more refugee and asylum-seeking women to explore gendered experiences of displacement through craft, using the toolkit designed through these initial workshops.