Believes that NIGERIA’s many cultures have given us beautiful, useful things and ways of making.

Like all other beautiful things, we believe they should be engaged with by people, researchers, and designers to define new, exciting expressions that are seen, felt, held, sat on, played with, strummed, smelt, dragged, experienced, used, loved…

Through collective design conversation, practice, and theory, we aim to bring their essence out of the past and into today; out of museums and into the hands and minds of Nigerian makers, for the love of the people.

We will do this by collaborating, making the results of our experiments widely available, and speculating towards designed interventions in public spaces (from bus stops to hotels, markets to parks). This way, culture continues collectively.

More to come.

What if?

As an experiment-driven design studio, rooted in research and collaboration, asking questions - this one in particular - is a key part of the process. There are no wrong questions.

Learn more about the ongoing doctoral research that sits at Homenkà’s foundation, here.

Have an idea?

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The Igbo word Omenkà (meaning artist) meets the word Home to illustrate our hybridity and mission to continue Nigerian culture through synthesis and contribute to an ever-growing homegrown approach to designing objects, systems, and experiences; it demonstrates how we remain present in the present and empowered by the past for the sake of the future.