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. 

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Breaking the Rules

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 

Truth Telling & Call-Out Culture

Welcome back to season two of Spirit of Design Podcast! 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

Future Fashion Visions

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 Yunkaporta Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sustainability5.0/ Website https://sustainability5.world

Connection to Place with Amie & Ania

Ep. 22 Rest as Power This week we’re finally back after a long hiatus to chat about rest as power. 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

Rest as Power with Amie B. + Ania Z.

Date: 03/09/2020 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: http://www.quasi-australis.com/about Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quasiaustralis/ Facebook: https://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

Responsible Fashion Photography with Eunice Pais

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/

Zero Waste Fashion Design with Holly McQuillan

Expansive Visioning for Fashion Podcast Ep. 19 This episode was our favorite 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 shared 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. Guiding questions: 10x thinking: Think of what you want and expand it by 10, 100. What would this ideal future look like 10 times? 100 times? (question borrowed from Hayley Carr) If we were already there, what would we be doing differently? 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? 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. STEEP futuring tool: Societal, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political factors happening in your future vision. Returning Earth to the commons Gifting economies Degendering 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” Design for the Pluriverse: Escobar - design towards more collaborative and place-based approaches. Design that attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on radical interdependence of all beings. ‘I dream of a world guided by a lens of stories rooted in the revelations of science and framed with an Indingeus worldview - stories in which matter and spirit are both given voice’. -Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass Resources and Mentions: -Hayley Carr - Dissolve Problems by Thinking Bigger (a guide) podcast episode: https://blubrry.com/superfreak/65164640/dissolve-problems-by-thinking-bigger-a-guide/ -Degendering fashion- 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

Expansive Visioning for Fashion

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?’ 

Reflections on Race and Privilege with Amie & Ania

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

Meaningful Sustainability with Bandana Tewari

Date: 21 April 2020 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- https://www.instagram.com/petajean_/ Buy Petas books/programmes: https://www.petakelly.com/shop Earth is Hiring Earth is Hiring for Kids Stop Missing the Point Scripting Mess-ta-class Charles Eisenstein podcast- https://charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/

Ep. 16 Post-Corona Futures with Peta Kelly

Today’s conversation is with Naomi Bailey-Cooper, a textiles designer, artist and researcher, whose research focuses upon designing alternatives to animal materials. Naomi received a funding award from the Victoria & Albert Museum and London College of Fashion for her PhD by practice where she pioneered embellishment alternatives to fur and exotic animal materials. Her work places an emphasis on the sensory tactility, layering and aesthetic richness of materials. As well as developing fashion and textile artefacts, Naomi delivers talks and facilitates workshops which examine approaches that can be applied to creating alternatives to animal materials. In this episode we explore; Her PhD research and practice and what she discovered about the appeals of fur, feathers, reptile skins and other exotic animal materials used in clothing. The research she conducted at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, where she gained exclusive access to never exhibited archives. How designer’s can explore deeper values within their work and begin to shift current design practices toward ethical and long-lasting products. The importance of creating opportunities for people to come together and share varied perspectives. Future visions and paradigms shifts needed for the fashion industry. The importance of moving away from animal derived materials. Her artist residency in the Amazon recording rare insect species through textile embellishments. The energetics of unsustainable materials and processes + loads more. Resources + mentions: Naomi’s Website. Fashioned from Nature exhibition at the V&A Delft Fur Report Design Against Crime research centre at the University of the Arts London Labverde - Art immersion program in the Amazon Planthopper Nymph insect This was such an inspiring and thought provoking convo - we hope you enjoy!  

Designing Alternatives to Animal Materials with Naomi Bailey-Cooper

Ep. 14 - The Vibration of Materials with Ania & Amie Date: 10th March, 2020. In today’s episode we explore the vibration of our material culture - how our things/ materials/ clothing holds energetic frequencies, and how we as designers and users contribute to this. We chat about: The energetic and unseen consequences of unsustainable supply chain’s on both makers, the planet and the people using the final products. The discarding of clothing as linked to the wearer feeling the trauma within the supply chain that it took to create that piece. How things produced with love, slowness and care carry a higher frequency than one with chemicals, exploitation and extraction. Marie Kondo’s ‘the art of tidying up’ revolution that sees people asking themselves whether their things spark them joy. Dr. Masaru Emoto’s scientific research on the molecular structure of water that evolves through energetic frequencies. The importance of care and reverence toward our material culture, both physically and energetically. How sustainability can begin by first looking within ourselves as designers and creatives. + Loads more…. Even if this idea is a bit out there or ‘woo-woo’ for you, we invite you to open yourself up to this possibility even in a speculative sense and see what arises. Resources + Mentions: Dr. Masaru Emoto - https://hado.com/ihm/ Marie Kondo - https://konmari.com/ Join us for our first Virtual Roundtable Series of this year, exploring - Rethinking 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, link: https://join.skype.com/TUaRId28eEKS 

The Vibration of Materials with Amie + Ania

Today’s episode is an old conversation from last year between us focused on rethinking fashion supply chains. 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- https://instagram.com/holly_mcquillan. Virtual Roundtable Series: Rethinking Fashion Supply Chains - March 9th 8am Sydney/ 10am NZT/ 9pm March 8th London/ 4pm 8th March NY/ 10pm 8th March Berlin Link to RSVP for Virtual Round Table Series: Rethinking Supply Chains. Zoom link in description https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHFjcXVrczIwdTE5NjdrN3U4c2M2NW80ZTQgdXBncmFkZWRzdXN0YWluYWJpbGl0eUBt&tmsrc=upgradedsustainability%40gmail.com

Ep 13. Rethinking Fashion Supply Chains with Amie + Ania

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 www.flykakao.com

Business from a New Paradigm with Makenzie Marzluff

Spirit of Design delves deep into the unseen elements of design and holistic sustainability. 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.

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