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University of the Arts London (London College of Fashion), working with The Institute of Future Creatives in Sri Lanka.
‘Crafting Global Futures’ is an initiative which aims to modernize and sustain Sri Lanka’s craft sector by integrating it into global markets. The project addresses vulnerabilities in the sector—heightened by economic crises and reduced artisan participation—while leveraging opportunities in sustainability and ethical consumer markets. The capacity building of five craft artisans / creatives from Sri Lanka will take place following the launch in February 2025, with them receiving training in market identification, pricing, range planning, global sustainability practices and policies, ethical production standards and entrepreneurship. This initiative will be leveraged through other partnerships with EU and the export development board in Sri Lanka for longer term growth in the creative economy. The project will run from January to July 2025.
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Geoffrey Bawa Trust in Sri Lanka, working with Kraft Isono Films, UK.
‘Garden as a Cloud’ is an immersive virtual reality experience and exhibition of one of the most important tropical landscape gardens of the 20th Century, Geoffrey Bawa’s garden Lunuganga, in Bentota, Sri Lanka. The grant will support the completion of the second phase of a two-part collaboration to produce and exhibit at the newly opened archives and gallery of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust (GBT) in Colombo and thereafter, to be publicly accessible and exist permanently in the GBT archives, to be used as a teaching tool that can be toured in international exhibitions. The project will run till 31 January 2026.
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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka working with the World Monuments Fund in UK.
‘Can you hear the building speak?’ (working title) is an experimental public art project that aims to look at alternative ways of documenting heritage buildings. Alongside documenting a building using its physical and aesthetic characteristics, this project seeks to imagine a building as a receptor of stories that can be broadcast as messages, narrated through stories, transmitted through music, sounds and words. The project focuses on a heritage building that is centrally located in Colombo and is soon to become the MMCA Sri Lanka’s permanent venue. The project will run till 29 February 2026.