Fund Chizoba's Graduate Thesis

Hello! I am completing  graduate thesis for my  Master's of Architecture at USC. I need your help funding material and production cost for fashion patterns and samples for a final exhibition/ show.

 

My thesis deals with ancestry/ migration and how cultural practices can be adapted to suit the needs of those in the diaspora through fashion and architecture.

 

My project statement is below:

 

WHAT

Due to colonization, immigration, and displacement (in search

for resources) society has moved into and now occupies spaces very different

from their ancestral homelands. Many are convinced that specific regions

should be occupied due to proximity to perceived opportunities.

 

 

The theory of ancestra/ands states that people are in a state

of equilibrium when they inhabit places that mimic the

ecology of their ancestors’ homelands.

 

WHY

Regions that do mimic ancestra/ands are deemed so

economically unviable and out of reach that often

information about living there does not exist.

 

RESEARCH

This thesis researches the aesthetic of Algeria

through an expression of form and fashion within the

semi/quasi space. The quasi is core to everyday social practices

and cultural connections in African cultures.

 

 

The final will consist of design/ production of a unisex clothing line
coupling the design of a unisex open, flexible pavilion space
to be utilized on the journey from Paris to Algeria(Insha'Allah).
This action-oriented approach will inform how the practice will
adapt as globalization and migration persists.