MARD has been hosting online talks, connecting networks and supporting regenerative practices around the world. 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 is a gathering of creative voices (based in Brazil) that celebrate the power of place in building possible futures. During the online event, we seek 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.
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.’