Crafting Human™ Episode 10 | What Home Really Means with Sandra Fadayel

When the place that once represented home is no longer, what does it look like to build it again, and not just the walls and rooms, but the deeper foundations home provides: safety, identity, belonging?In this episode of Crafting Human, I sit down with my longtime friend and fellow Pratt alum Sandra Fadayel, founder of Inhabitat, a Dubai-based interior design studio whose mission reaches far beyond aesthetics. Sandra designs homes for global citizens and executives living across borders and cultures to create spaces that reflect who they truly are and evoke the familiarity of home.Sandra traces her design ethos and mission back to a defining moment in her youth, which was witnessing her grandmother return to the home in Palestine from which she was forcibly removed decades earlier. The experience planted a seed within her about the relationship between home and identity, one that would take years, and nine cities of her own, to fully understand.Her art practice, which includes large-scale abstract paintings and her latest collection, Unmapped, explores those same themes of borders, belonging, and identity,  deeply personal ideas woven through both her creative work and her life story.Together, we explore why people in crisis instinctively reach for objects that remind them who they are, why creativity requires room to breathe, and how inspiration often lives in the smallest moments like a slice of sky through a window or the bark of a tree on a morning walk.This is a conversation about what it truly means to create home and how to protect creativity in a life shaped by movement and change.New episodes of Crafting Human™ air every Thursday. Subscribe to the channel and join the Crafting Human creative community to stay connected.