Belonging doesn’t just happen - it is built. Desire to Create explores how Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa used architecture to shape community, identity and everyday life. Marking the 150th anniversary of his birth, the exhibition traces his philosophy and its realisation in East Tilbury, where modernist planning connected housing, work, culture, sport and health into a coherent whole. Bringing together guiding principles and material traces - from drawings and photographs to original artefacts - it reveals how ideas were translated into built form, inviting reflection on how design continues to define belonging today.