Community Culture during Diaspora

The cultural life and livelihood of Carriacou people was once shaped by a didactic practice — building and sailing wooden schooners, farming, and collective self-reliance on the island. These traditions marked everyday life in the mid-20th century, before many migrated to the UK and US, and continue to inform how Carriacou is remembered as home and what is has become today. Your design challenge is to create a compelling experience of this heritage, both online and for exhibition as mixed/augmented reality. Layer 1 represents the Carriacou community of that era, who created and held this space. Layer 2 invites contributions from the diaspora with permission. Layer 3 is observational, offering outsiders abstracted representations. Oral histories include dialect words and accents unrecognised by mainstream AI, preserving their links to tools, materials, ecosystems, and crafts. The visual rendering and interaction style should draw from Carriacou traditions such as boatbuilding, sea voyages, Maroon, or the calabash tree, treating them as living systems of knowledge rather than decorative motifs.