How to Heal a Broken World
This is not a solution. It’s a question. A broken world doesn’t heal through numbers, policies, or plans alone.
It heals through memory. Through connection. Through meaning.
This ribbon doesn’t fix the world. But it invites us to feel it again. To touch what we’ve lost and imagine what we could still repair.
The Ribbon That Connects Us
A 100-meter-long, expanding textile ribbon installation, made from used fabric—not polished, not perfect, but alive. Patched. Faded. Full of memory. A growing artwork and a shared archive. The ribbon weaves itself into monuments, social spaces, and historical as well as contemporary structures, inviting us into dialogue and reflections, but most importantly to healing and hope for a better world.
Follow the ribbon as it travels across locations
This ribbon moves. From place to place. From story to story.
Every installation adds something new materially and emotionally.
A journey that never ends, but always deepens.
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Munich, Villa Stuck
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Augustusburg, Schloss
A place full of imperial history and industrial scars. Saxony was once the epicenter of European textile production. Today, only traces remain. The ribbon wraps around the trees of Augustusburg Castle. A quiet tribute to a lost legacy. And a region in transformation.
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Munich, Alte Utting
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Ghana, Jamestown Fishing Harbour
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Ghana, Kpone Landfill
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku (born 1994, Cape Coast) is a multidisciplinary artist and civil
engineer from Accra, Ghana.
He works with discarded textiles and second-hand clothing to explore memory, identity,
environmental degradation, climate change, and sustainability.
His textile installations are immersive: part performance, part provocation. Always
rooted in material, culture, and community.
His vision: to turn discarded textiles into symbols of remembrance, resistance, and
regeneration.
The Project
How to heal a broken world
Welcome to the lifetime project of Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku. This ribbon doesn’t just travel. It transforms.
With every location it visits, it grows: in fabric, in meaning, in soul. People contribute their textiles, their stories, their past. Each thread becomes a testimony. A trace. A memory stitched into form. This project explores textile as a carrier of history, transformed into solutions that heal broken systems: socially, environmentally, psychologically, and spiritually.
Over the next 15 years, Emmanuel will merge his background in civil engineering with
artistic practice to research sustainable textile futures and circular design solutions.
We invite you to reflect, connect, and contribute.
Follow the Ribbon
The ribbon continues to grow. Its next stop:
the Isar River. Then Paris. Then Slovenia. Then… who knows?
Do you know a place with history? A story worth stitching into this band?
→ Tell us
We choose with care, because every thread matters. Every new location becomes part of the work. Every new textile becomes part of the story. Be part of this growing monument to memory
To-Choose
To-Choose is an art start-up based in Munich.
We believe:
Art is a statement – and the perfect medium to communicate and experience sustainability topics. Emotional, powerful, inspiring. We joined Emmanuel on this journey to bring his vision to Europe and into the world.
This is the first project of its kind that we’ve embraced, co-developed, and helped grow. As creative partners, we are building the infrastructure, expanding the network, and
shaping the narrative: together.
→ Learn more about us
Follow the ribbon as it travels across locations
A place full of imperial history and industrial scars. Saxony was once the epicenter of European textile production. Today, only traces remain. The ribbon wraps around the trees of Augustusburg Castle. A quiet tribute to a lost legacy. And a region in transformation.
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku (born 1994, Cape Coast) is a multidisciplinary artist and civil
engineer from Accra, Ghana.
He works with discarded textiles and second-hand clothing to explore memory, identity,
environmental degradation, climate change, and sustainability.
His textile installations are immersive: part performance, part provocation. Always
rooted in material, culture, and community.
His vision: to turn discarded textiles into symbols of remembrance, resistance, and
regeneration.