Sacred Grounds: 3 Days of Slow Design

Over three days, the café becomes a studio for reflection and making, where visitors are invited to reimagine mosques and community places through the lens of the Five Ways to Wellbeing: Connect, Notice, Give, Learn, and Be Active. Guided by the principle that form follows feeling, guests respond to open prompts through hands-on creative practices. The tools remain the same each day: collage, weaving, zine-making, and audio recording — but the prompts and themes shift daily, giving visitors fresh entry points into slow, sensory design. Across all three days, visitors may: • Collage: A5 artworks made with magazines, cut-outs, text, and fabrics. • Weaving: Simple card looms with fabric scraps and thread, curating colour and texture. • Audio: Short recordings of words, stories, or memories that will form part of a collective film. • The Slow Design Wall: A living installation that grows across the three days, weaving all contributions into a shared tapestry of imagination and belonging. Day 1 – Designing from feeling Prompt: Choose a word — safety, healing, or calm. If a community space, mosque or sacred space was designed around that feeling, what would it look like? The opening day slows the gaze. Through colour palettes, collages, woven cards and audio notes, visitors imagine the foundations of sacred feeling. Day 2 – Designing from Agency Prompt: If this mosque or community space were yours, what would it hold/facilitate? The second day foregrounds self-agency and ownership. Prompts invite people to imagine without limit, if the building's activity was specifically curated by them. Day 3 – Designing with Future Prompt: What would you like future generations to thank you for in this space? The final day looks forward, inviting participants to work backwards. What feelings, activities, and gifts can we carry into the future? By dusk, the Slow Design Wall is at its most layered — fabric, text, postcards, collages, and voices curate a group artwork. Sacred Grounds is both an exhibition and an invitation — a space where coffee and conversation meet creativity and care. It remains open and accessible to anyone curious to join. Each contribution, whether a textile, a colour palette, or a postcard to the future, becomes part of a shared work that honours memory, nurtures presence, and imagines new possibilities. This is a drop-in event — free and accessible to all. You don’t need a ticket to join. Eventbrite registration simply helps us plan capacity and materials. Drop in at any time across the three days.