Last week, the eleven finalists of the Redesign Belonging Challenge took to the digital stage to share their powerful ideas with the public. Their creativity, care, and bold vision inspired us..After an exciting round of public voting and thoughtful reflection from our jury, we’re proud to announce the five winners who will move on to the next phase of the programme. As part of Redesign Belonging, we hosted an open call to designers, students, creatives, and changemakers everywhere to help reimagine what belonging means today. The response was as diverse as it was passionate—and the winning ideas reflect just that.
From food and employment to community-driven initiatives and collaborative workshops, the selected projects push boundaries and spark new ways of thinking. Next up, the winners will join a dynamic cohort of creatives and take part in a development programme. We can’t wait to see where it leads.
Homelore
Riddhi Varma & Céline Le Grand, Portugal
A community initiative that addresses the lack of long-term, culturally rooted integration initiatives by co-creating with female migrants that often remain unheard. Weekly embroidery workshops foster community, storytelling, and shared empowerment, transforming craft into a dialogue-driven, collaborative space. Homelore aims to scale its local efforts transnationally, creating lasting connections.
You Too Are a Wanderer
Carla Sanfratello Marco, The Netherlands
A research project that challenges the Narrative of Difference in contemporary art spaces by fostering belonging and connection through migrant-led storytelling. Centered on the figure of the Wanderer, it aims to reimagine migration via collective myth-making workshops and an interactive installation that blends art and mythology. It seeks broader participation, transforming exclusion into representation and inclusion in art and design spaces.
Winadill Project
Tamara Mezina, Clarissa soares &
Aleksandra davydenko, Finland
A digital service for migrant women that provides a platform to showcase skills and offer freelance services, from baking to babysitting, photography, and more. It fosters connections between migrants and locals and creates opportunities for contribution and economic empowerment. Through research, interviews, and co-creation workshops, the website and app platforms will be refined and reach a broad target audience of students, parents, retirees, and isolated individuals.
Unwritten Recipes
Meriç Çukurova & Scienthya Elona, The Netherlands
A participatory research project that explores migration, identity, and belonging through food adaptation. It invites Turkish and Indonesian migrant women to share their migration stories. Using sensory mapping, storytelling, and embodied cooking rituals, participants will co-create a zine and cookbook. The final zine will highlight how flavors and identities evolve and will be shared through exhibitions, storytelling events, and online platforms.
Home? Belonging Short Stories
Sarah Binkowski, Italy
A social design initiative that addresses the exclusion and stereotyping faced by migrant youth in Bolzano, whose voices are often ignored. The solution includes an ethnographic diary, the “Real Talk” game for self-expression, and a poster series to challenge societal narratives. The game will be distributed to youth centers and schools, fostering reflection and mutual understanding and be integrated into teacher workshops to support diverse classrooms. A citywide poster campaign will further challenge societal narratives about migrant youth.