Spirit of Design
By Sustainability5.0
Join us for open conversations with creatives, scholars, activists and others, to envision alternative design futures that are diverse, inclusive, community-centric, and in symbiosis with ALL life on this planet.
It is our hope that these thoughtful conversations offer new guiding imageries for designers, creatives and anyone else feeling the disconnect of these turbulent times, so that we can work toward envisioning regenerative and connected futures.
Your hosts: Amie B. + Ania Z.
Spirit of Design Dec 17, 2019
Breaking the Rules
Ep. #26
Breaking the Rules with Amie B. + Ania Z.
In today's episode we discuss breaking the rules for fashion, and what this could look like. In order to bring forth sustainable fashion futures we have to break the current rules that keep us constricted into how things are. Join us as we riff on these ideas.
Truth Telling & Call-Out Culture
This week's new episode is another chat between us on a topic that is effecting us all - truth telling and call-out culture.
In order to be able to bring in our desired futures and do expansive visioning we need to be able to hold space for multiple truths and creates safe spaces to share our truths.
In this episode we explore:
+ our own experiences surrounding the current paradigm of calling people out and online shaming
+ why there is no ultimate truth and truth as being contextual
+ how dogma in various environmental and social justice movements keeps us from missing the point
+ how we need to focus on what we actually want for the world
and loads more...
We hope you enjoy this conversation, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on this pertinent topic.
Ania & Amie xx
Future Fashion Visions
We are so excited for all that we have to share with you on the podcast this year, but to kick off 2021 our first offering for the year is our vision for the future of fashion.
Visioning is such a powerful exercise, and we encourage you to make it your own and bring it with you into 2021!
- Amie and Ania
Connection to Place with Amie & Ania
Today's episode is an exploration the importance of connection to place for sustainable fashion futures.
Ideas we explore in this episode:
Asking where does connection to place fit within fashion?
How do you connect with a place when you are displaced from your traditional roots?
Reponsibility to place.
Being in a reciprocal relationship with place
Rethinking fashion education- what if we began with place?
Truth is never absolute but emerges from place and therefore multiple truths can exist.
and so much more...
Mentions and Resources:
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson YunkaportaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/sustainability5.0/
Website https://sustainability5.world
Rest as Power with Amie B. + Ania Z.
We pressed record planning to do a follow up episode to one of our last conversations but the topic of rest as power was so relevant and something we’ve both been leaning into over the last couple months.
We deep dive into:
-the idea of rest as power and rest as a revolutionary act
-the different kinds of rest (hint: it’s not only naps)
-how rest allows us to be in relationship
-why test is important for the future of fashion
-expanding time through relationships
-time as a social construct
And so much more!
Guiding questions for this week:
“How can each of us lean more into rest, even if it’s initially uncomfortable”
Resources and mentions:
Nap Ministry on Instagram
Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkarporta
www.sustainability5.world
@sustainability5.0
Responsible Fashion Photography with Eunice Pais
Ep. 21 Responsible Fashion Photography with Eunice Pais
This week our guest is Eunice Pais. Eunice is a self-taught ethical fashion photographer based in Portugal.
Her journey in photography started three years ago with a question: “Can photography be responsible ?”
Through partnering with ethical fashion brands she was able to develop and implement environmentally and socially positive methods of work in her fashion productions.
This year, she decided to elevate the initial personal project even further. By creating an agency that promotes carbon neutral and regenerative systems of opportunity in photo productions, she can champion ethics in image making while pushing for a more equitable industry.
Using photography as an agent of change.
This week's episode with Eunice was a deep exploration of what it means to be a responsible photographer, artist and storyteller.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!
We explore:
-What it means to be a responsible photographer and storyteller
-Representation and inclusion in image making and fashion
-Elder wisdom
-Sustainability as not only a political and social, but also an artistic stance
-The need for reconciliation in the fashion industry
...and much more.
“There is a difference between working with responsible fashion brands and being a responsible photographer. You can tag along with the former but you must be the latter.” -Eunice Pais
Resources and mentions:
You can find all of Eunice’s tutorials on Responsible Fashion Photography on her Instagram profile.
You can find Eunice online at:
Website: www.quasi-australis.com/about
Instagram: www.instagram.com/quasiaustralis/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/quasiaustralis/
To find out more about Sustainability 5.0 and Spirit of Design podcast you can go to:
Website: www.sustainability5.world
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sustainability5.0
Zero Waste Fashion Design with Holly McQuillan
Date: 19th August, 2020.
In today’s episode we chat to Holly McQuillan. Holly McQuillan’s work in the field of zero waste fashion design, articulates sustainable fashion systems and practice. She focuses on issues such as transition design, the impact of technology and how these can challenge established design, production and use practices. Holly co-authored Zero Waste Fashion Design with Timo Rissanen and together they are currently writing the second edition. She also co-curated Yield: Making fashion without making waste, the first contemporary exhibition focussing on zero waste fashion, and developed the award winning open-source zero waste resource Make/Use. Her work always seeks to broaden the impact of zero waste and sustainable fashion design through research, publication, workshops and lectures. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the Swedish School of Textiles exploring zero waste systems thinking through the innovative design and production of textile-forms.
We chat about zero-waste design thinking, aesthetics, using technology for fashion futures, evolving designer roles, fashion post-covid and so much more. This was one expansive conversation that we hope you’ll enjoy!
Resources + Mentions:
- Website - https://hollymcquillan.com/
- Instagram - @holly_mcquillan Make/ Use - https://makeuse.nz/
- Zero Waste Design Collective - https://www.zerowastedesignonline.com/
- Timo Rissanen - https://timorissanen.com/about/
- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth - https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/
- Clo3D digital fashion software - https://www.clo3d.com/
- Kathryn Walters Textiles - https://www.kmwalters.com/
- Earth Logic Fashion Action Research Plan - https://earthlogic.info/
- Fully Automated Luxury Communism - https://luxurycommunism.com/about/
Expansive Visioning for Fashion
Expansive Visioning for Fashion - Podcast Ep. 19
This episode was our favourite joint episode we’ve recorded together so far. We’ve been feeling the need to really explore visions for a new fashion future and in this episode we share some of our ideas, some of the visionaries whose work has inspired us, and we try to push the boundaries of imagination for what is possible in the future of fashion.
We chat about things like:
- Encompassing a balance of the feminine and masculine energies
- The role of technology in our futures
- A balance between the spiritual and physical worlds.
- Returning Earth to the commons
- Gifting economies
- De-gendering fashion
- New money systems and questioning and rethinking the social agreements we have made
- Dismantling the hierarchy of fashion with percentage based salaries.
- Partnerships vs. “representation and inclusion”
Guiding questions:
- 10x thinking: Think of what you want and expand it by 10, 100 (question borrowed from Hayley Carr).
- What would this ideal future look like 10 times? 100 times? (question borrowed from Hayley Carr).
- If we were already there, in our ideal fashion future, what would we be doing differently? (Hayley Carr)
- What does fashion/ design look like when it goes beyond creating more things? When it is based upon cultivating relationships, community, care towards ourselves, one another and the Earth?
Resources:
- Hayley Carr - Dissolve Problems by Thinking Bigger (a guide) podcast episode: https://blubrry.com/superfreak/65164640/dissolve-problems-by-thinking-bigger-a-guide/
- De-gendering fashion by Alok Vaid-Mennon, on the Conversations with Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversation-alok-vaid-menon-is-degendering-fashion/id1328893989?i=1000459631480
-Sacred Economics by Charles Eistenstien - https://charleseisenstein.org/books/sacred-economics/
- Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass
Reflections on Race and Privilege with Amie & Ania
Ep. #18 - Reflections on Race and Privilege with Ania & Amie
Date: 16th June, 2020.
In today’s episode we come together and reflections amongst us about the current racial issues happening within our world. These are musings from our own current experiences, where we chat about race, privilege, the importance of self-reflection at this time, shame and guilt, and we finish off by posing some questions that may help us imagine more inclusive and diverse futures.
As always, this comes from our own personal experiences, where we believe that there exist multiple truths. Take what you want and leave the rest.
Lots of love,
Amie & Ania.
Resources + Mentions:
Our BIPOC resource list we have started putting together (a good starting point).Podcast - The Conversations - ‘Can we talk more about black trauma in fashion?’
Meaningful Sustainability with Bandana Tewari
This week our guest is Bandana Tewari. She is a lifestyle editor, bad-ass sustainable activist and formerly held the prestigious position of editor-at-large, as well as the fashion features director of Vogue India. She now writes for Business of Fashion, and speaks internationally on India’s fashion craft traditions, the lessons of Ghandi and the place of consciousness in fashion.
In this episode we talk about everything from spirituality and fashion, to the Western world's long history of appropriation and extractive relationships with Indian and other cultures, the impacts of colonization and capitalism, and importance of culture and diversity moving forward.
Its a rich and deep conversation and I hope you get as much out of it as I did.
We chat about:
-The lessons of Ghandi and the khadi movement
-Cultural appropriation and extractive relationships with ‘developing’ nations
-The importance of cultural diversity
-Spirituality and sustainability
-Ancient wisdom of Vedanta
Resources + mentions:
Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative: https://www.culturalintellectualproperty.com/
Craftsmanship for Green Future https://2ed60751-dfd5-4fb8-a9d3-737773398787.filesusr.com/ugd/d5b008_75e700c55bd84fe4a702cafc2df27b7a.pdf
Follow Bandana on:
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/behavebandana/
Twitter https://twitter.com/behavebandana?lang=en
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bandanatewari/
Business Of Fashion https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/bandana-tewari
Post-Corona Futures with Peta Kelly
This week our guest is Peta Kelly.
Peta earned a first-class honors degree but at the age of 22, following an unseen pull towards something more, she dropped her Ph.D. and future career as a science nerd. Driven by a desire to retire her mum and change the narrative for the millennial generation she started her first business pursuit in network marketing and went on to be earning 7 figures a year by the age of 26. Setting her up to be able to do all the things her soul called her to.
She's the jeaniius behind The New Way Live events, Supercharged program, Earthess and a bunch more. She is one of the most generous angel givers I know, the author of Earth is Hiring, Earth is Hiring for kids and last week launched her newest book Stop Missing the Point.
When it comes to business and creativity she has so much grounded brilliance to share with our generation.
With the offering of this episode, we honor everyone's experience of this moment right now. For some the global pandemic has been a time of heightened creativity and a welcome break from the chaos of everyday schedules, a time to spend with family. For others its been a terrifying experience facing financial insecurity or the loss of loved ones. Without bypassing any of the very real experiences that people are going through right now this conversation is a very forward-thinking one. We explore what the coronavirus means now and for the future and how essential personal choice is for creating a future that is fairer for all. Peta shares thoughts on the future of money and business and a whole bunch more.
As always, take what feels good for you and leave whatever doesn’t. I hope this episode leaves you feeling energized about our shared futures.
In this episode we explore:
Why the coronavirus pandemic was the only way we could have a collective shift in reality
Shifting focus from on our systems and money being to blame to self-responsibility
How important owning your own choices are and on consciously choosing for things to be different
Rethinking our stories about how “it’s not realistic” and “the systems not set up to support me”
The role of culture in the future
Money and business post-corona
When our souls work can become self-neglect
Humility and the collective and individual lessons brought by coronavirus
Resources + mentions:
Find Peta on instagram- www.instagram.com/petajean_/
Buy Petas books/programmes: www.petakelly.com/shop
Earth is Hiring
Earth is Hiring for Kids
Stop Missing the Point
Scripting Mess-ta-class
Charles Eisenstein podcast- charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/
Designing Alternatives to Animal Materials with Naomi Bailey-Cooper
The Vibration of Materials with Amie + Ania
Rethinking Fashion Supply Chains with Amie + Ania
In this episode we explore;
Supply chain transparency.
Circularity without limitations as perpetuating the same paradigms.
Why we need systems change. Reframing the language around ‘supply chain’.
Supply chains as a co-creative process.
Responsibility and accountability.
The importance of inner work for the creation of sustainable supply chains + loads more.
This is a conversation we plan to build upon in our upcoming Virtual Roundtable series commencing in March, a free monthly digital space for chats around sustainable design.
This episode is also unedited and raw, so please excuse any background noise you may hear.
Resources + mentions:
Holly McQuillan- instagram.com/holly_mcquillan.
Virtual Roundtable Series: Rethinking Fashion Supply Chains - March 16th 8am Sydney/ 10am NZT/ 9pm March 15th London/ 4pm 15th March NY/ 10pm 15th March Berlin
Add yourself to the Skype group on the day and comment with your name and location and we will group call you: join.skype.com/TUaRId28eEKS
Business from a New Paradigm with Makenzie Marzluff
Todays episode is actually the audio from the very first guest interview we ever did, back before Spirit of Design podcast existed when we were doing our weekly Instagram live chats.
This conversation still stands as one of the most potent and powerful we’ve had so far.
Todays episode is with our beautiful friend Makenzie Marzluff.
Makenzie is a social entrepreneur who believes in the powerful impact that products, brands and conscious business practices have on both humanity and the planet.
Makenzie has had 4 startups, graduated from the highly acclaimed incubator SEEDSPOT, has featured on Shark Tank and has a genuine passion and expertise for food concepts. Has grown a multi-million dollar a year Dessert Hummus company which began out the back of her van. She is also the founder of Kakao Drinking Chocolate and was hugely instrumental in bringing ceremonial kakao to the modern world.
Makenzie is one of the most courageous women we know, she leads from a heart centered paradigm that is profoundly different from the traditional way of doing business and in doing so has experienced miracle after miracle. Makenzie is a wise woman when it comes to heart centered business and we don’t use the word wise lightly.
This episode is super expansive and explores the possibilities for business when we look beyond the current accepted paradigm.
We hope that this episode really challenges you and invites you to look at business differently than what is considered normal.
Resources + links:
Delighted By Hummus: The Original Dessert Hummus™
www.delightedbyhummus.com
KAKAO Ceremonial Drinking Chocolate
Values & Imagination with and beyond
Date: 28th Jan 2020.
Today’s episode is with Will Bull and Amy Foster-Taylor, the founders of London based sustainability consultancy ‘and beyond’.
Created last year, and beyond run workshops with schools, brands, and more, to empower people to create a better world. Their work focuses on creating spaces for you to tap into your intrinsic values and harness your imagination in order to come up with meaningful solutions for a connected and sustainable future.
In this episode we explore;
Will and Amy’s journey to creating a values-based business.The importance of tapping into our intrinsic values and the possible outcomes this can have on ourselves, our work, relationships and the earth.
How and beyond create spaces that activate intrinsic values with both students and established businesses.
The power of imagination and taking time to envision alternative sustainable futures.
How to then translate values and visioning into actionable steps.
How connecting with values and imagination can impact design.
and beyond’s future visions for their work + loads more.
This was such a juicy episode that shed a lot of light on the direction that we need to be going in for our world. and beyond’s work is so inspiring and so needed at this time and we hope you enjoy our convo with them.
Resources + mentions:
And BeyondSystems theorist and environmentalist - Donella Meadows.
Regenerative Textiles with Beto Bina
Date: 14th Jan 2020.
Today’s episode is with Beto Bina, and is centered around his work in regenerative textile systems and agroforestry. Beto has been working at the intersection of Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability for over 14 years, helping clients such as Nike, Samsung, Verizon and J&J to grow through products, services and communications. His career in the creative industry has given him awards such as Cannes Young Lions, Effies Awards and he has been recognized on Medium as a top writer in Sustainability and as a mentor at SxSW.
His latest venture is called FARFARM, a start-up that is developing a Textile Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon. Most recently, he has joined the team of VEJA, coordinating sourcing and looking for responsible materials throughout Latin America.
In this episode we explore;
- Beto’s journey from leaving a high profile New York job to working on a purpose-driven start-up in the Amazon.
- Agroforestry farming methods and how its processes can assist us in addressing the challenges of climate imbalances, help regenerate the planet, and provide sustainable development to communities.
- How Farfarm has started creating textiles grown in these regenerative ways and what they are hoping to achieve through this.
- How the term ‘sustainability’ has become vulgarised, and new stories that we can tell in our work toward a more equitable future.
- Nature as a foundation and as an ultimate KPI (key performance indicator), the new marker for success.
- Beto’s role at Veja, and the innovative and responsible work that they are doing on a massive scale.
- Future visions for both Farfarm and Veja, + loads more.
This was such an eye-opening episode to record, where we learnt a whole lot. We hope you do too!
Resources + mentions:
Beto’s website.Fafarm - regenerative agricultural textile methods.
Farmfarm’s partner - Larissa O’Duarte
Ernst Grosch - Life in Syntropy
reNature Foundation
Preta Terra
Dr. Vandana Shiva - Environmentalist and activist
‘Sef-deception of Fashion’ by Beto Bina.
‘Flourishing’ - by John Ehrenfeld and Andrew Hoffman
Veja shoes.
Reflections and Intentions for the past decade and 2020
Date: 31st Dec 2019.
In this episode, we talk you through a series of prompts that reflect on the past year and decade, celebrating, releasing, and calling in new dreams, desires and goals for the year to come.
Grab your favourite pen and journal, and put some time aside to reflect on what was and what you would like to call in.
This process is also available for pdf download - follow the link below.
Have a beautiful new year everyone!
xx Ania & Amie
Resources:
Reflections & Intentions for the past decade and 2020 pdf worksheet.
5 Elements of Sustainability with Ania & Amie
This episode is here to act as a guide and overview of the 5 elements before we delve deeper into each one individually in later episodes.
Resources + Mentions:
Dr. Monica Gagliano - scientist and researcher of plant cognisance.
Dr. Masaru Emoto - author of The Hidden Messages in Water on experiments with the vibration and frequency of water.
Earth is Hiring by Peta Kelly - tapping into the spirit of your business.
Fafarm - regenerative agricultural textile methods.
Fibre Shed - local textile and clothing communities.
Botanical Inks - natural dye studio in Bristol UK.
Personhood granted to Wanganui river.
Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge by Dr. Daniel Wildcat.
Zazi - artisan fashion community.
FFORA - functional and beautifully designed accessories for people in wheelchairs.
Lissome - sustainable fashion publication.
Mindfulness apps - Headspace, Insight Timer.
The Importance of Beauty for Sustainability with Dorte de Jesus.
Date: 17th Dec 2019.
Today’s conversation is with creative Dörte de Jesus.
Dorte worked as an art director for boutique design studios and magazines such as ELLE Germany, before she launched the independent, mindful fashion publication Lissome Magazine in spring 2016. Since then, Lissome has organically grown into a core team in Berlin, and a wider international community of writers, photographers and stylists. Its first annual print edition was launched in December this year (2019), and presents a new holistic vision on what sustainable fashion could be.
We chat about:
Dorte’s creative journey.What holistic beauty looks like, and the role it can play in the transition to a more sustainable world.
Why Dorte decided to turn the Lissome Magazine into a physical print edition.
Why we shouldn’t completely cease producing and buying fashion and other products.
What content the Lissome print magazine presents that makes it different to any other sustainable fashion and design magazine currently out there.
How designers can include elements of beauty within what they create, but still be responsible and mindful toward the Earth and people.
Plus loads more...
We are so excited to bring this conversation to you today. Enjoy!
Resources + links:
Purchase your copy of the new Lissome print edition here.
Kate Fletcher’s Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Book - Design Journey’s
On Being Podcast with Krista Tippett in conversation with John O’Donohue, ‘The Inner Landscape of Beauty’.
Berlin zero waste restaurant - Frea
Intuitive Trends with Tanja Glissmann
This week’s episode is with Tanja Glissmann, the founder and owner of the intuitive trend agency Sunshine Trends & the sustainable fashion label Black Velvet Circus.
In this episode tanja shares what intuitive trend forecasting is, how she defines trends and why they are still important in moving forward toward a sustainable world. Tanja shares about why the creation of new, beautiful and thoughtfully made products is still so important in these times of planetary crisis. We speak about how she runs her business guided by intuition and heart. We also explore ideas around sovereignty.
Photo Credit: Roman Dachsel
Resources + Links:
Tanja Glissmann - @tanjaglissmann
Black Velvet Circus - @blackvelvetcircus / http://shop.blackvelvetcircus.com/en_GB
Read Tanja’s recent interview in the new print edition of the Lissome, that can be purchased here - https://www.thelissome.com/shop
Design Rhythms with Ania & Amie
In this episode, we explore alternative design and production rhythms that re-examine current making practices and their fast and growth orientated speeds and scales.
We dive into:
Aligning with Mother Nature’s rhythms for design and what these could look like in practice.The importance of new definitions for success as based upon tapping into individual rhythms for design and sustainability.
How we can listen to our intuition and how we want to feel as wayfinders for how to create.
De-growth rhythms for design.
Examples of alternative rhythms in contemporary design practice and business.
This is a short but sweet episode that touches upon a lot, and it’s definitely a conversation we will keep building upon!
Resources + mentions:
Danielle Laporte - https://www.daniellelaporte.com/
Farfarm - https://www.farfarm.co/
Fiber Shed - https://www.fibershed.com/
Fashion & Patriarchy with Ania & Amie
In this episode, we explore the intersections of fashion and patriarchy.
We ask some deep questions around what does the dismantling of patriarchy look like for design, and is destroying the patriarchy the best way forward?
We dive deep into:
The connection between the oppression of Mother Earth and the oppression of the feminine in all life. How women's reproductive rights are affected by fashion. Self-love as a powerful form of disruption. The importance of pleasure in sustainability + so much more.This is one juicy conversation that we can’t wait for you to experience.
Resources + mentions:
The Lissome magazine - order the first print edition here to be released this month - https://www.thelissome.com/shop/lissome-magazine-issue-01-pre-order
For the Wild Podcast ep. 139 with brontë velez and Ayana Young - https://forthewild.world/listen/bronte-velez-on-pleasurable-surrender-of-white-supremacy-1-139
For the Wild Podcast ep. 137 with Raj Patel - https://forthewild.world/listen/raj-patel-on-cheapness-in-the-age-of-capitalism-137
Sustainability 5.0 - https://sustainability5.world & https://instagram.com/sustainability5.0
Diversity and Design with Amie Berghan
Amie is a sustainable fashion designer, creative and word-artist. Her research and practice focuses on the intersections of fashion design, indigenous earth-based knowledge, spirituality, community, and exploring what a decolonized futures could look like. She is also the co-creatress of Sustainability 5.0 + Spirit of Design podcast. In this episode, Amie takes us on a journey of exploration around what decolonized futures could look like, the importance of diversity in design for resilient and sustainable futures, sustainability as the ‘new frontier’ and more. This episode was a juicy one and we’re excited to share it with you!
Other concepts we chat about:
Decolonization of the fashion industry. Sustainability as the ‘new frontier’. What is a ‘missionary complex’? The connection between cultural diversity and biological diversity. Culture lead sustainability solutions.Resources and mentions:
Fashion Revolution: why the real revolution should be the decolonization of the fashion industry: https://medium.com/@amieberghan/fashion-revolution-why-the-real-revolution-should-be-the-decolonization-of-the-fashion-industry-2046000ac1c6 The Lissome: https://www.thelissome.com/ Pre-order your copy of Lissome’s debut print issue here: https://www.thelissome.com/shop Zazi Vintage + Jeanne de Kroon: https://zazi-vintage.com + https://www.instagram.com/jeannedekroon/ Linguistic diversity tied to biodiversity: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/endangered-languages/biodiversity-and-linguistic-diversity/ Vine Deloria, Jr. + Daniel Wildcat, Power and Place: https://nycstandswithstandingrock.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/vine-deloria-jr-daniel-r-wildcat-power-and-place-indian-education-in-america.pdf Source map has tracked fashions colonial trade routes: https://www.sourcemap.com/ Sustainability 5.0 www.sustainability5.world + https://instagram.com/sustainability5.0 Amie Berghan https://instagram.com/amie_berghan
Eco-spirituality and Design with Ania Zoltkowski
Ania is a sustainable fashion designer, educator and researcher, passionate about creating fashion futures that are resilient, creative, mindful and inclusive. She is also the co-creatress of Sustainability 5.0 and Spirit of Design podcast. In this episode, Ania dives into eco-spirituality and its place within the design process. Ania shares how eco-spirituality can provide a framework for holistic sustainability as well as the importance of community during this time. This was a really powerful episode and we’re excited to share it with you! Other concepts we chat about: Redefining success markers. Ecologising the fashion space. How brands market to our disconnection and how to begin walking ourselves home to connectedness. Fast fashion as a necessary catalyst for change. Guiding questions for designers from Ania’s’ Spirit Design Cards. Resources and mentions: The Lissome https://www.thelissome.com/ Pre-order your copy of Lissome’s debut print issue here: https://www.thelissome.com/shop Tanja Glissmann - Intuitive Trend Agency https://instagram.com/tanja_glissmann + Black Velvet Circus https://www.instagram.com/blackvelvetcircus/ Sustainability 5.0 www.sustainability5.world + https://instagram.com/sustainability5.0 Ania Zoltkowski http://www.aniazoltkowski.com/ + https://instagram.com/aniazoltkowski
Introducing Spirit of Design Podcast
In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and share our backgrounds and the path that has led us to this moment that we share with you right now. We share how Sustainability 5.0 and the Spirit of Design podcast emerged and offer a sneak peek into the conversations to come, the topics we’ll explore, and more.
Resources:
www.instagram.com/sustainability5.0
www.instagram.com/amie_berghan
Spirit of Design trailer
Spirit of Design delves deep into the unseen elements of design and sustainability.
Facilitated by Amie & Ania, designers based in Australia and New Zealand, that felt there were missing elements from the sustainability conversation.
Through leading conversations with designers, scholars, activists, philosophers and others, we explore the many elements of holistic sustainability for the design spaces.
We adventure into interdisciplinary concepts surrounding ecology, Indigenous and ancient wisdom, spirituality, decolonization, holistic activism, and more.
It is our hope that these thoughtful conversations offer new guiding imageries for designers, creatives and anyone else feeling the disconnect of these turbulent times, so that we can work toward envisioning regenerative and connected futures.
Launching 11.11