Ai Deng

             






Home, sweet home2025

Together with over ten artists developed two participatory art activities focused on emotional connection and collective collaboration. Through non-verbal creative practices, the project explores how art can become a medium for communication between individuals and between individuals and society. The activities create shared spaces for trust, interaction, and emotional exchange.




Process 1
Recording on secondary school workshop

This activity is designed for secondary school students. Centered on drawing and hands-on making, it encourages participants to express personal emotions and needs through doodling, collage, and free use of materials. Through collective creation, the project fosters cooperation while highlighting the importance of attending to individual differences in artistic interaction. It also explores the emotional connection between art and society, treating creative practice as a way of understanding others.





🔸Who benefits-How is this ensure

Students exercised their ability to create freely with materials

This rare collective creation allows us to explore the emotional care for students. Most of us are from China, and entering the community allows us to understand different educational methods and cultures.

A safe environment and a free approach are important guarantees for engagement.Every teens has different personalities.Some of them are shy, which means side by side is better than face to face to guide them.


🔸Take Care

Emotional & Psychological Care(Give encouragement rather than criticism, and create in a psychologically safe environment.)

Creative Freedom & Exploration

Building Connections & Trust





Process 2


‘The RENA Initiative presents: The WoWC (Women of White City)’ project began as a programme of painting workshops and art exhibitions on White City Estate for women – and gender identifying women – who are older, social isolated or unemployed from underserved and marginalised communities.

These workshops give intergenerational participants a safe space to make new friends, manage stress, feel visible and valued, improve their mental health and wellbeing, and share their life stories through the medium of painting.







This project adopts “soft, non-textual storytelling” as its core method, using gentle materials such as felt and foam to deconstruct the functions of three different rooms in a home and transform them into three artistic activities. By recreating a domestic atmosphere, the project lowers barriers to understanding and encourages intergenerational communication. Through the use of everyday objects and digital projection, participants’ works are displayed across walls, floors, and soft furnishings, introducing new media and technologies while strengthening a shared sense of belonging.



Both activities emphasize trust-building, equal participation, and collective creation, exploring the potential of art as a tool for healing, companionship, and social connection. Within a relaxed and inclusive environment, participants are invited to rebuild their inner worlds and experience their value as part of a collective.





Project TitleHome, sweet home

Project TimeRCA - School Wide Unite 2025 Team Members
Xiyan Wang, Cheng Ma, Radhika Sood, Ai Deng, Fatimah Alabed, Feiyang Zhang, Harismita Govindaraj, Jiwoo Kang, Joseph Yorke-Westcott, Kexin Jin, Marchellina Laurentius, Muhan Wang, Qianyu Zhou, Run Zhu, Shengyang Gao, Simin Chen, Wei Li, Xinrui Zhou, Xinyin Zhang, Yi Huang, Yi Li, Yuqin Zhu, Bengbeng Ren