Launched 2025

Home Ground Lab

In collaboration with Stephanie Acker

Home Ground Lab is a creative research and storytelling initiative housed within Clark University’s Integration and Belonging Hub. We work at the intersection of aesthetics, justice, and the built environment—exploring how beauty functions as a vital form of infrastructure in spaces often overlooked by traditional design and policy systems: refugee shelter, transitional housing, and communities shaped by displacement or marginalization.

Contact us: info@homegroundlab.org

Our Beauty Praxis Practice Guide is a 7-day guide in response to a growing sense of collective unraveling. It’s designed for people navigating burnout, rupture, or reentry. Each day blends story, reflection, and sensory-based practice.

We specifically made it for:

  • Displaced humanitarian workers wondering where to go next
  • Activists and organizers trying to stay human in the face of erasure
  • Anyone asking, “How do I keep going?”

Access the guide by subscribing here.