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The Or is a not-for-profit group expanding perspectives across borders

31/08/2026

Waste is not the end of a material’s story.

At our Material Transformation & Technology Lab (MTTL), we are exploring what happens when we refuse to treat it that way.

Through Remanufactory and ReMade In Ghana, we experiment with discarded materials, develop new products and technologies, and investigate how material transformation can create new economic possibilities.

Two weeks ago, we had the honour of Ghanaian musician and creative entrepreneur Okyeame Kwame 🇬🇭 visiting our facilities and lab to learn more about this work and see some of these possibilities firsthand.

From Cassaboard sound speakers, Acoustic panels, Tarnty, to the many experiments underway inside the lab, the work is grounded in a simple but expansive question: What else can we make?

Not somewhere else. Not by sending the problem away. Here in Ghana.

Curious to see what we’re making? You can see and experience these products and innovations for yourself at Other Showroom. Come through, explore our works, and discover an array of what textile materials can become.

Your chance to shop the pop up Alterist | Upcycled Fashion this Summer Bank Holiday weekend! Featuring upcycled pieces f...
29/08/2026

Your chance to shop the pop up Alterist | Upcycled Fashion this Summer Bank Holiday weekend! Featuring upcycled pieces from KOMA Foundation | Dinnanioff | KUORO EARTH | Khadis | Calcul | Apprica Toggery and The Remanufactory led by Nabi-Yankey

Join the summer party on Sunday from 3-10pm Netil Market

Last week, we welcomed Ghanaian musician and creative, Okyeame Kwame, to our spaces to learn more about the work happeni...
19/08/2026

Last week, we welcomed Ghanaian musician and creative, Okyeame Kwame, to our spaces to learn more about the work happening through our local innovation and the possibilities of re-making in Kantamanto.

As a strong champion of Made in Ghana, Okyeame Kwame toured our Other Showroom, Remanufactory Studio, and our Material Technology & Transformation Lab (MTTL), where he was introduced to the acoustic qualities of our Cassaboard sound speakers and acoustic panels; products we’ve developed through material transformation and creative experimentation. And I mmersing himself in the process of making Cassaboard into a final product.

MTTL has been exploring what becomes possible when secondhand materials are treated not as waste, but as resources for creativity, innovation and economic opportunity.

During his visit, we shared some of the ways we are putting this into practice, as well as the broader research, material transformation and development happening within the Lab.

The visit also happened alongside a group of Kantamanto retailers who were touring the MTTL space, bringing together different parts of an ecosystem that is central to our work: material transformation, fashion, music, enterprise and community knowledge.

For us, this is what makes spaces like MTTL important. We are not only exploring how we can keep secondhand textile materials out of the environment. We are exploring what else they can become and what new opportunities can emerge when we transform them here in Ghana, within the community that works with it best.

We’re grateful for the visit and for the opportunity to share this work with individuals who are curious about what Kantamanto can make, remake, reimagine and circulate.

FIFA World Cup. Wimbledon. The Tour de France. The Amundi Evian Championship. Whatever your summer sport of choice, you ...
25/06/2026

FIFA World Cup. Wimbledon. The Tour de France. The Amundi Evian Championship. Whatever your summer sport of choice, you don’t need to play to participate.

Our remanufactured sportswear edit launches today at Alterist Marketplace, London (Alterist | Upcycled Fashion).

Each one-of-a-kind piece was designed and remanufactured by The Or Foundation’s Remanufacturing Lead, Nabi Yankey (Nabi-Yankey), made from secondhand sportswear pieces sourced from Kantamanto Market.

Reimagined for what comes next. One of one. No repeats.

Shop the collection at Alterist.

Credits:

Photographer & Editor: Ibn Faiz ((ابن فايز)
Talents: Camelia Ardestani (Camelia) Monet Cassett () and Eugene Ewusi-Annan (.wusii
Production Team: Sammy Oteng (Sammy Oteng) Nabi Fred Yankey (Nabi-Yankey)
Production Support: Derrick Asare (Jhay Roy), Darren Simpson
Creative Director: Eugene Ewusi-Annan (.wusii)

FIFA World Cup. Wimbledon. The Tour de France. The Amundi Evian Championship. Whatever your summer sport of choice, you ...
25/06/2026

FIFA World Cup. Wimbledon. The Tour de France. The Amundi Evian Championship. Whatever your summer sport of choice, you don’t need to play to participate.

Our remanufactured sportswear edit launches today at Alterist Marketplace, London (Alterist | Upcycled Fashion).

Each one-of-a-kind piece was designed and remanufactured by The Or Foundation’s Remanufacturing Lead, Nabi Yankey (Nabi-Yankey), made from secondhand sportswear pieces sourced from Kantamanto Market.

Reimagined for what comes next. One of one. No repeats.

Shop the collection at Alterist.

Credits:

Photographer & Editor: Ibn Faiz
Talents: Camelia Ardestani, Monet Cassett, Eugene Ewusi-Annan
Production Team: Sammy Oteng (Sammy Oteng) Nabi Fred Yankey (Nabi-Yankey)
Production Support: Derrick Asare (Jhay Roy), Darren Simpson
Creative Director: Eugene Ewusi-Annan (.wusii)

Closing out World Ocean Month with a celebration of ecological care, creativity and community.On June 30, The Or Foundat...
23/06/2026

Closing out World Ocean Month with a celebration of ecological care, creativity and community.

On June 30, The Or Foundation with Tide Turners, in partnership with the Norwegian Embassy in Ghana, invites you to a one-of-a-kind coastal experience in what was once Dutch Accra.

Through environmental remediation, immersive installations, live acrobatics and a special musical performance by Iveth Stunner, we will reimagine what care for our shoreline can look like.

At the center of the experience is Portraits From the Future: The Faces Carrying the Shore; an exhibition spotlighting the cleanup crews, artists, citizen scientists and documentarians behind The Or Foundation’s growing Community Ecological Care Network (CECN) in Accra, who are building new systems of ecological care from the ground up.

The day concludes with a raffle featuring limited-edition upcycled pieces from our Other Showroom space.

We promise you’ve never seen anything like this.

Welcome to the future.

22/06/2026

Are you in London for Climate Week? is hosting us for a special 4 day pop-up at their Concept Store in Netil Market Thursday June 25th - Sunday June 28th.

Come to the launch party on Thursday 25th June 6-10pm to meet some of the featured designers, discover one-off pieces and limited-edition collections, and celebrate the Kantamanto community!

We’ll have music from Netil Radio, food from SEN NOODS and SUGO 82, drinks from Wingnut Wines, Alibi and more.

See you there!

Alterist Concept Store, Netil Market
Thursday 25th June
6-10pm

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We made these upcycled flags with windbreakers lovingly sourced from Kantamanto Market!Each one is unique, with prices s...
17/06/2026

We made these upcycled flags with windbreakers lovingly sourced from Kantamanto Market!

Each one is unique, with prices starting at 300 Ghana cedis. Limited quantities are available now at Other Showroom
Drop by 10am-5pm, in Adabraka!

At Woven Threads VII: CRAFTED, our Fibreboard was the perfect backdrop for the fashion showcase.Developed by The Or Foun...
11/06/2026

At Woven Threads VII: CRAFTED, our Fibreboard was the perfect backdrop for the fashion showcase.

Developed by The Or Foundation’s Material Technology & Transformation Lab team from shredded cotton-rich asire T-shirts diverted from Kantamanto, the panels formed a backdrop for conversations, and encounters throughout the exhibition.

What began as discarded material was transformed into structure, creating a space where designers, makers, and visitors could engage with ideas around craft, sustainability, circularity, and value.

For us, the Fibreboard represents more than material innovation. It reflects the possibilities that emerge when waste is approached not as an endpoint, but as a resource for experimentation, creativity, innovation and new systems of making.

Thank you to , Style House Files, curator Sunny Birungi Dolat, and the designers and practitioners whose work activated the space and brought Woven Threads VII: CRAFTED to life.

From Kantamanto, to Lagos and to the world, the conversation continues.

Featured designer’s work photographs behind our Casa Fibreboard:

Éki Kéré
NYA
Kokrobitey Institute
AJANÉÉ
Hertunba by Florentina
PETTRE TAYLOR

Images courtesy of Lagos Fashion Week Official and Style House Files.

Looking back on the closing ceremony of the EU Cycling Tour for Sustainability in Accra, we’re proud to have contributed...
01/06/2026

Looking back on the closing ceremony of the EU Cycling Tour for Sustainability in Accra, we’re proud to have contributed a sustainability fashion showcase that brought our work in Kantamanto Market to the runway.

Building on for the six-day circling journey across Ghana, the presentation highlighted our ongoing work and showcased reuse, circularity, and community-led systems in practice. The collection of 12 looks was reimagined, developed, and brought to life in just one week: sport-inspired pieces rooted in reuse and drawing from the realities and materials from Kantamanto, led by Fred Nabi Yankey, our Remanufacturing Lead.

What came to life on the runway was not just the fashion, but the process: hands, time, care, and collaboration, moving so quickly, but with intention. The showcase distilled the essence of our approach: material transformation, collective making, and storytelling through garments.

Thank you to the EU delegation, partners, team and all collaborators who made this moment possible.

To the models, who carried these pieces with presence and power, and to every person behind the scenes who brought this to life under such a tight timeline, thank you.

And to the community that continues to shape this work we do every day, this moment belongs to you.

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