A special thanks to our MARD alumni and co-host Bruna Cerasi, RizaLab and our amazing speakers:
Thalita Campbell – biologist and biomimeticist
Ianah Mello – artist and agroecologist
Moara Tupinambá – artist and Indigenous activist
Daniel Bernardinelli – furniture designer and naturalist
Helena Nicotero – translations
Weaving Places was online bilingual event and gathering of creative voices (based in Brazil) that celebrate the power of place in building possible futures. During the online event, we seeked to develop a living network where artists, designers, thinkers, activists and cultural agents come together to reflect on the importance of thinking about territory: ancestral, physical, symbolic and emotional, as raw material for creation and regeneration.
An invitation to listen and exchange different types of knowledge about being in place from a Brazilian perspective: a country of constant invention, where traditions, cultures, biomes and imaginaries intertwine.
Link to recording session
Quotes from the presentations
‘ We need to learn from the dynamic of our biosphere, understanding the processes, species, and life they create and sustain.’
‘ It’s about neighbourhood, the relation that shifts outwards, extending - everything is in cooperation.’
‘ We are this territory, look at our DNA, we need to understand how it’s referencing and guiding us.’
‘ Earth is where our memories are, our ancestors, our future, its our entity, body, language and material.’
‘ Materiality gives another language of understanding the territory we are part of.’
‘ Territory is a language and the body a place for listening.’