Mekeka Designs curated a range of global fabrics, including custom barkcloth for an exhibition at Grace Farms, Connecticut titled With Every Fiber. In collaboration with Design for Freedom, the Yale team curated a BioLogic Materials wall - exploring renewable bio-based circular material economic models of cooperation across the Built Environment, Forestry, and Agriculture sectors.

Heritage in Motion explored how traditional African craft continues to shape contemporary design, not as nostalgia, but as a foundation for sustainable futures. Presented as part of Forum Création Africa (FCA) 2025, the exhibition brought together designers, researchers, and artisans from across Africa and the diaspora to reimagine innovation through the lens of heritage & culture.

In collaboration with Luxury Frontiers and Studio Something Something, our team curated over 500 custom made objects for this unique project. In response to the design vision, we created a proposal of indigenous materials, traditional techniques, and new approaches to using the rich cultural arts of Uganda throughout the spaces. In collaboration with Kinset, we are piloting a Digital Product Passport program so guests can scan QR codes to find out more about the objects in their space.

At the Africa Textile Talks in August 2024, Ugandan textile experts Josephine Mukasa and Pamela Kyagera presented barkcloth—an indigenous and renewable Ugandan textile—to an audience of 200 in Cape Town. The designers from Good Good Good were in attendance, and five months later, at Paris Fashion Week, they showcased a look made from Mekeka Designs’ Lubugo Obutono cloth—a woven, rain-fed cotton textile with strips of rust-coloured barkcloth running through it—as part of their AW25 Sprouts Collection.