Colour, Community and Co-Creation: Inside the Yinka Ilori Foundation
Colour and play have always been intrinsically intertwined, evoking memories of freedom, curiosity, and possibility through simple childhood moments like swinging, seesawing, or sliding in sunlight.
For designer-artist-educator Yinka Ilori, these moments formed the foundation of a philosophy that design, joy, and community belong together.
Colour and play have always been intrinsically intertwined.
This philosophy is now embodied in the Yinka Ilori Foundation, an initiative that moves beyond individual commissions and installations into place-making, community collaboration, skills sharing, and sustainability.
The foundation aims to create playful, inclusive, and sustainable community spaces that foster creativity, opportunity, and self-sufficiency, especially for children and youth, through locally embedded play objects, arts, workshops, and economic strategies.
Author's summary: Yinka Ilori Foundation combines design, joy, and community.