Due for launch over the Summer, Keishunda is currently building thehaueghetto.org as a place where various artists and writers can collaborate and showcase their work. Black Art to Heal aims to use arts, culture and heritage as a means to heal the relationships within the Atlantic world and to help rebuild the lost identity of Atlantic Africans. She'll be putting together a piece of research on this work too, which you can read about below:
Keishunda's Research Proposal:
"Atlantic Africans have a unique mixture of factors that have influenced or shaped our identity and how we relate to each other. I am proposing that we use our culture, history and heritage to help build ourselves, our identity and our relationships with each other. More specifically, my research hypothesis uses Pan-African social enterprise and black art as a vehicle to rebuild the identity and relationships between people within the Atlantic world.
“thehauteghetto” is a Pan-African social enterprise that repurposes unwanted t-shirts to create sustainable clothing. Using thehauteghetto as a model, I am interested in researching circular design, social enterprise, the black Atlantic and healing justice.
The practices involved in conceptualising thehauteghetto and the various stages and relationships developed during the process are highlighted as value creating. A value creation framework is also analysed as another way to measure potential impact. By having persons of the Atlantic world connect in a way that is economically, socially and emotionally progressive, it is hoped that these exchanges are mirrored in other realms. "
