Threads from the Pluriverse Podcast

I recorded this one on an afternoon walk in Wrocław under glorious trees, near the end of four weeks travelling around Poland.In this episode, I explore two essences that have been deeply alive for me lately, intimacy and aliveness, and why I believe they are missing from so many conversations about regeneration, change-work and creativity.So much of how we create has been shaped by control, urgency and extraction, leaving us and our work depleted.And we can’t create regenerative worlds from this place.I'm interested in what becomes possible when we relate to our work as something living, something we are in intimate relationship and co-creation with, so that it can nourish us as it ripples out into our communities, Mother Earth and future generations.At the heart of the episode is the Regenerative Change Framework from my research and work with clients, which explores your work through five interconnected layers:Self: who do you need to become to steward your vision, and what do you need to let go of?Creations: are you co-creating with your work, or trying to control it?Communities: who and what, human and more-than-human, is already holding your vision with you?Mother Earth: how might your work give back more than it takes?Future Generations: what are you normalising now, and what legacy do you want to leave?I unpack these in detail in this episode and there’s also a somatic activation that you can do alongside this. I like to do this regularly and as a way to get intimate with what I’m stewarding and creating.To go with this episode, I've recorded a 15-minute activation that guides you through the five layers in your body, because they don't only exist out in the world, they live in us too.It's a way of slowing down and listening to your work as a living relationship, noticing what feels alive, what feels tender and where your vision is asking for more attention. Practised over time, it can help you reconnect with why you began, loosen the grip of control, and feel the aliveness and support that is already there in what you're creating.🌀🌀🌀 Receive the somatic activation that goes with the epiosde here 🌀🌀🌀The 15-minute activation moves through these five layers in the body. Give yourself this presence and intimacy to connect.Try it daily for thirty days and notice what emerges.I would love to hear what comes forth for you.With Love,Ania This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

Episode Description:Here’s what the fashion-textiles industry doesn’t want to admit: It’s not just extracting from the Earth and communities. It’s also extracting from you.After burning out multiple times in this industry, I have understood: We cannot create regenerative systems from an extractive state.In this episode, I share why over so many fashion-textile and sustainability professionals are burning out, and what I’ve learned about inner regeneration through my journey and after speaking to change-makers in our field.We explore: → Why the extractive logic applies to change-work too.→ My personal burnout stories (industry + academia). → What I’m hearing from fashion-textile change-makers as their current biggest challenges. → Practical approaches for inner regeneration: + Energy sovereignty practices + Embodied knowing (spirit, heart, mind, body) + Connection to place + Vitality in collaboration with strategy + Your well-being IS part of your workThis isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about changing how you’re already doing things through micro, everyday practices that compound over time. This is where change emerges from. Deep transformation requires embodying the change we seek—moving from extraction to regeneration INSIDE and OUT.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:RESOURCEDOnline regenerative immersion for fashion-textile change-makers→ Date: December 1st, 2024 (Nov 30th depending on timezone).→ Investment: $45 USD→ Register hereI am also currently taking on a few 1:1 clients in the regenerative fashion-textile space. To learn more visit my website. Let’s CONNECT:Website: www.aniazoltkowski.comInstagram: @aniazoltkowskiSubstack: Threads from the PluriverseEmail: [email protected] A REVIEW: If this episode resonated with you, I’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps others find this work ✨You are so held. You are so supported. We need you resourced. We need you in your vitality.Ania xx This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

🎧 Listen on: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyIn this week’s podcast, I’m setting the context for all that we are exploring here in more detail. Pulling from my doctoral research (2020-2024), today we’re examining the crisis we’re in—a crisis of separation that’s generating the socio-environmental devastation, exploitation, extraction and other interrelated issues we see in our industry and beyond. I usually focus on sharing about the different regenerative possibilities that I envision fashion move toward, but it felt important to set the tone in a more concrete way and unpack the context for why regenerative and sacred approaches are so needed in the world, now. You’ll discover:* Fashion’s current global environmental , social, cultural impacts and how these are symptoms of deeper ontological issues. * Why the values of extraction, reductionism, and exponential growth are at the root of the industry’s issues. * The connection between worldviews and the systems we create—and why changing our approach requires changing our consciousness.* And more!This episode is for anyone in fashion-textiles as an industry or anyone that engages with fashion in their day to day lives (that’s all of us) who’s had enough of business as usual and is ready to question the foundational worldviews we’ve inherited. AND for all of those who want co-create something different. Something regenerative, sacred, and reverent—here for it 💃🏽Stay tuned as future episodes unpack in more detail what this may actually look like. Want to go deeper? If this episode resonated and you’re feeling called to integrate regenerative principles into your fashion-textiles work and leadership, I’ll be launching something very special soon just for you. Sign up to my newsletter at aniaz.substack.com to be in the know. What resonated? What didn’t?Have beautiful day, y’all 💚Ania xx This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

Hey Loves,This week’s post is a longer form recorded podcast episode about my current explorations into regenerative leadership for fashion-textiles, what it is, why it’s important for our industry going forth, and how it may look like in practice.Regenerative leadership draws from nature’s principles: interconnectedness, collaboration, cycles of growth and renewal, diversity, reciprocity, reverence, care and resilience. Rather than just reducing negative impact, regeneration actively creates conditions where life can flourish. In fashion-textiles, this means leading and creating in ways that revitalise and centre vitality rather than extraction and depletion.This approach beautifully complements pluriversal worldviews—the understanding that there are many diverse, ways of being in the world. You can read more about pluriversality here. Through this episode I share how such principles can be practiced through fashion-textiles and integrated into what I deem the essential 5 areas for change work: our relationship with place, our inner world, communities, what we’re crating and building in the world and future generations to come.This regenerative way of being cannot be learned in a single workshop or retreat—it must be embodied and lived daily. It requires devotion, dedication, and massive trust in visions we cannot always see yet fully.We need audacious, courageous leaders willing to ask: How can fashion-textiles become a regenerative, life-affirming force in the world?Grab yourself a cuppa, or go for a walk and enjoy these musings.Loads of Love,Ania xxThis exploration draws from my ongoing research and practice in pluriversal design, regenerative approaches, and almost twenty years of work between fashion-textile industries and academia. If you’re curious about applying these principles in your own context, I’d love to continue the conversation. Thanks for reading Threads from the Pluriverse! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

This week’s post is an audio recording and I’m posting a written version below →I've been working in an extractive way most of my life, without even knowing it. I think most of us have been and still are.After years in the fashion industry - burning out, feeling isolated and alone - I started noticing how extractive this way of working was. So one-way, so one-dimensional.Extraction is commonly defined as using effort or force to remove something - I'd add, without reciprocity.I interned at Vivienne Westwood in my younger years, where we as interns were treated as disposable labour by some of the people in management. When I was managing a renowned showroom for emerging designers in Paris, everything revolved around designers at the pinnacle, at the top of the hierarchy, where everyone else that contributed to their creations was rarely, if at all, acknowledged.Story after story of profit-driven brands where entire ecosystems - humans, more-than-humans, the Earth - are invisible contributors.Because we can't ‘sustainability’ our way out of extraction with technical fixes. We need to go way beyond that. No matter how many “eco-friendly” materials we use, if we're still operating from the same extractive logic, we'll keep creating the same problems.Through my doctoral research focused on pluriversal creative practices, I discovered this wasn't just evident through my personal experiences - these issues are systemic and paradigmatic. The western approach to creating and designing treats everything as a resource to extract from, rather than relationships to honour and become intimate with.In reconnecting with my own indigeneity and the places that have held me, as well as spending a lot of time in process-driven making during my research with no outcomes in mind, I've learned that this isn’t anything new, and that all cultures pre-modernity have always known this and lived this way, as some still do. This is about remembering what colonialism has made us forget. Step by step, micro-shift by micro-shift, we can rewire these patterns. And this requires a holistic approach, a key part of my methodology, that has to encompass all four of our wisdom centres - spirit, heart, mind and body.So I’d like to introduce to you some different practical ways that I’ve been playing with, to move from extractive to relational ways of creating:CONNECTING TO PLACEWhere are you located and where are you creating? What are the local flora and fauna that exist there? The local human and more-than-human ecosystems?I love to set up a little elemental altar everywhere I go, as a way to locate myself in place, within the four directions and elements. Our work is always being held by place - how are we in relationship to it?CO-CREATIONI stopped seeing projects as things I completely control. Now they're collaborators. What wants to emerge?What is this work asking of me?How can I listen with more than my ears?How do I open myself up to not-knowing, sitting in liminal spaces, allowing space for contemplation and emergence to occur?This requires slowing down and listening more, and releasing control, thinking you always know best. A practical way of doing this is sitting with your creation, beginning to say hello, and developing a relationship with it asking it questions and being in dialogue.RECIPROCITYEvery creative act has to include: What am I giving back?Robin Wall Kimmerer asks: "What can I give back to the Earth for all of her gifts?" How can my work be of service to others, to the community, to the Earth? Interweaving an element of giving back into your work can look like volunteering at your local community garden, organising community making events irl or online, even a simple ‘thank you’ and acknowledgement to your materials and tools that you use each day.COMMUNITYCreating through the worldview that i am seperate from all else and others, kept me in an isolated and extractive mode of working. It is in community that we remember that we're part of something larger.How can my work bring people together? A mending circle in the park? Online gathering? Potluck dinner?How can my work bring community together? How can we support one another and create alongside one another in this time?Through my one-on-one client mentoring sessions, I see this extractive pattern emerging a lot from a place of separation and thinking we have to go at it all alone. What I’ve seen is that once we begin to connect into relational approaches, which are very practical, their worldviews begins to shift, as entire new communities of support become available to them through their own inherent wisdoms, their materials, processes, ecosystems and more.This shift of course will not occur overnight. This is an ongoing practice of remembering relationship over extraction. In this process of de-conditioning from so many years of being this way, we will get it wrong and we need to be gentle with ourselves in this process, whilst still holding a level of responsibility.When creatives begin to create in this way, something magical occurs. We start creating different possibilities.This is what we explore together through Weaving Worlds.What would change in your creative work if you approached it through relationship rather than extraction?Are there any practices or methods that you’re working with that move you away from extractive toward relational was of creating? I’d love to hear from you below.So much Love,Ania xx This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

Hello Loves,This week’s post is a completely intuitive riff on autonomous ways of creating and designing and my current thoughts on why this is imperative now more than ever. I go into the importance of beginning to question and decondition from how we’ve been told creating needs to be, and what can emerge when we allow ourselves space to contemplate what we do and how we do it.I finish up with some contemplations that we marinate within and explore in Weaving Worlds, an online experience I facilitate on reimagining sustainability and new possibilities for fashion-textiles, design, creativity and beyond. I hope you enjoy this quick snippet. The transcript is below and I’m posting the contemplations here too for whoever it may be of use for. These are designed to be contemplated upon, meaning allow your entire being (Spirit + Heart + Mind + Body) to marinate in them.Let go of your mind trying to ‘work it out’. Allow them to permeate through you, giving space for what wants to emerge when and how it wants to emerge. This is not a linear process. Go about your day and see what unfolds ;)Contemplations:* What fashion-textile/ design/ creative/ business expectations am I carrying that are not aligned for me anymore?* What expectations feel heavy and not mine?* Where in my body do I feel excitement vs. obligation about my creativity/ work?* How does my heart yearn to create?* How might my creative practice serve both my personal heart’s desires and contribute to my community?* How can I connect to my community more as part of my creative work?* Through what rhythms does my creativity naturally want to move at? Where do I feel rushed vs. spacious?* What aesthetics, materials, and ways of making feel most authentic to me?* Where can I practice alternative ways of knowing and doing within my practice?Based upon what emerges above for you, what is one micro-action you can take today toward this new way of being?REMEMBER: It’s through micro, repetitive, intentional actions that larger shifts occur.Feel free to share below.Loads of Love,Ania xxxTRANSCRIPT:(00:00:00):Hello everybody, so today I wanted to do an audio recording instead of a written Substack post.(00:00:11):And what is big on my heart this week that I wanted to share is this idea,(00:00:19):this concept of being an autonomous designer,(00:00:23):being an autonomous creative,(00:00:26):and what that means,(00:00:27):and particularly the relevance and importance of that right now in our world as(00:00:32):where so many of us are doing change and sustainability and regeneration work.(00:00:40):And so we've been fed this idea through the overarching systems of modernity,(00:00:48):coloniality,(00:00:49):patriarchy,(00:00:50):you know,(00:00:50):the gist,(00:00:52):that there is one way to be in the world.(00:00:55):And from that,(00:00:57):we've been fed this idea that sustainability looks a certain way and that creative(00:01:03):practices look a certain way.(00:01:05):If you're in fashion, there's very particular fashion definitions, design as well.(00:01:12):And what's actually the case in our world is that we're all diverse beings and we(00:01:18):all come from diverse places and(00:01:21):And the spaces we inhabit,(00:01:23):none of this is universal,(00:01:25):even though there's been this overarching universal power structures.(00:01:30):So everything is contextual,(00:01:32):diverse,(00:01:33):and responsive to locality and the particular experiences and life,(00:01:39):human and more than human,(00:01:41):that exist in that place.(00:01:45):And so we can see right now in the world that these one size fits all models in our(00:01:52):world today are actually failing us because they do not honour the local desires(00:01:58):and the diverse community needs of each place and space.(00:02:04):And this is happening in sustainability and in all fields.(00:02:09):And so moving beyond this one size fits all model for sustainability is(00:02:14):allows us to reconnect to our community desires and needs and visions,(00:02:23):as well as the individual desires,(00:02:26):needs and visions.(00:02:29):And so here,(00:02:33):this way of being,(00:02:34):this way of thinking,(00:02:36):moves us away from a homogenization that we're seeing so much in the world today,(00:02:41):of everything looking the same,(00:02:42):being the same,(00:02:43):and we're all expected to think the same.(00:02:46):We can see this so much on social media right now,(00:02:49):where there is so much cancelling of anyone who has a different worldview,(00:02:54):of anyone that has a different opinion.(00:02:56):And this is part of this project of homogenization.(00:03:01):And so how do we move away from that toward reconnecting to diverse creative(00:03:08):expressions that are rooted in context,(00:03:11):that are rooted in the places where we inhabit,(00:03:14):and that are authentic to our communities of where and who we're designing,(00:03:20):creating with,(00:03:21):who we're designing,(00:03:22):creating for,(00:03:23):but also that they're authentic to us on an individual level.(00:03:29):So what's needed here for whoever is a creative, a designer, a scholar,(00:03:40):anyone in this field of work,(00:03:44):is this sensitivity to balancing the communal,(00:03:49):so the community needs,(00:03:52):desires,(00:03:54):as well as our individual needs and desires.(00:03:57):So in this Western world of hyper-individualism,(00:04:04):where separation is the underlying way we're functioning in this world,(00:04:10):unfortunately,(00:04:11):and we are moving away from that.(00:04:14):How do we come into a more communal way of creating, designing, researching, teaching?(00:04:24):But also, how do we honor still our creative individual expressions?(00:04:34):So this idea of autonomy is,(00:04:36):and I think sovereignty is very closely interlinked here,(00:04:41):is about how do we start deconditioning from the ways we've been told are true?(00:04:51):So these overarching worldviews of how we are in the world,(00:04:55):but particularly for design,(00:04:56):for creative fields,(00:04:59):the way we've been told(00:05:02):the way we've been taught in educational systems and in industry,(00:05:06):how to design,(00:05:08):what aesthetically looks good,(00:05:10):how we connect to process,(00:05:12):how we connect to materials,(00:05:13):to tools,(00:05:16):what looks good,(00:05:16):what doesn't,(00:05:17):what do we use,(00:05:18):what we don't.(00:05:20):So there's a lot of dogma and rigidity here.(00:05:24):and rules around this which has stemmed from the overarching value systems of the modern world.(00:05:34):And(00:05:44):So we can look at this as a form of deconditioning as well as decolonizing,(00:05:52):where we can start questioning the prevailing norms within modern Western design(00:05:59):and creative industries and the largest systems and paradigms at play.(00:06:04):so what if we deconditioned from fashion textile design creative industry(00:06:09):expectations what could this look like what do we want it to look like what do we(00:06:16):want our creative journeys our creative systems our creative outputs to be rooted(00:06:22):in what value systems do we want them to be rooted in(00:06:26):And I know many of you might be thinking,(00:06:29):well,(00:06:30):you know,(00:06:30):how can I do this when I'm working for someone else and I'm stuck within their(00:06:36):worldview,(00:06:36):within their paradigm?(00:06:38):And I get this question a lot.(00:06:40):And like everything I explore here, none of this happens overnight.(00:06:47):This is work we need to do for the rest of our lives if we are to see it come into fruition.(00:06:56):And so what this is about,(00:06:58):what I'm just suggesting and planting the seeds for,(00:07:03):is how do we just start to question,(00:07:10):am I happy with how I'm doing this,(00:… This is a public episode. 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To me, embodiment means you become a living breathing vessel for what you stand for and what you’re creating in the world.What you're sharing and talking about moves beyond just the remits of the mind and becomes a lived experience in the day-to-day.It’s hard to describe.But there’s this certain layer of magic and potency that you can feel when someone is embodying what they’re sharing.In a world where speed, efficiency and metrics are valued more than other essences, are we taking the time for integration and embodiment?To sit with what has been learned.To reflect. To discern.To let it shimmer and emerge within and through your beingness however is right and authentic for you and your context, not based on how others do it.With the rise of AI and modern technologies we are becoming even more mind-based; How do we make sure they stay as tools, as collaborators, and not begin owning us?How do we keep ourselves rooted in our wholeness in these times and beyond?How do we stay grounded, connected, embodied?And how do we ensure we don’t become de-sensualised, disconnected from the wisdom in our bodies, our sensuality?This rise in modern western tech has the potential to de-sensualise us even more from our full range.A greater disconnection from the wisdom of the body, heart, spirit, and greater reliance on the mind.But only if we let it.This is why embodiment is imperative in this time now and going forth. And embodiment doesn’t just encompass the body, it too includes the heart and spirit.Just as our ancestors always knew, we have four wisdom centres. The mind has been overvalued in our world and it has its place, and there are three others who want to be related and collaborated with. Sustainability efforts are currently not working. In my opinion, one of the main reasons for this, is because they lack an integrated approach, and completely bypass and ignore our full spectrumness. Sustainability and regeneration efforts have to come from a place of wholeness, a place that recognises all of our wisdom centres, if we are to see any lasting and holistic change.Throughout my PhD research, I explored how spirit, heart, mind, and body interweave and co-create, and this became a key part of my methodology. While these four domains relate and overlap, each emerged uniquely throughout my creative research journey.Spirit manifested through contemplative and introspective moments, intuitive hunches, and connections to ancestral, energetic, and subtle realms.The heart domain spanned the emotional field, processing emotions and my relationship with the work and everything going on in-between, all whilst guiding intuitive, creative decisions.The mind engaged with the theory, was essential for visioning and ruminating on ideas, creating links, synthesising, generating and creating data.The body was the physical creator, that allowed me to translate complex ideas into tangible forms, through physical acts of making, primarily creating embroidered textiles.So how do we start to relate to all of these parts within ourselves?What is required is daily and very simple yet intentional connections to these essences. Learning to say ‘hello, learning to listen, and allowing what wants to emerge to emerge co-creatively.Below I list a few ideas and I invite you to find your own that work and resonate for you. Note that when we start saying hello to these parts of ourselves, they organically interweave with one another:SPIRITMorning moments of stillness, even just 5 minutes. Presence with your breath. Acknowledgment of the sacred in the mundane - your morning coffee, the light entering your room. Time in nature without agenda. Meditation, in whatever form that looks for you. Reverence for the animating force that weaves through all of life.HEARTTuning into what you're feeling throughout the day, not just thinking about feeling. Processing emotions rather than bypassing them. Letting your heart guide creative decisions instead of just your mind. Asking: What does my heart yearn to express through this work? Connecting with what you love, not just what you think you should be doing.MINDReading, researching, analysing - but this is just one part of the ecosystem, not the entire ecosystem. Visioning future possibilities. Intellectual engagement with ideas that excite you. And also questioning: What concepts want to be embodied, not just understood?BODYDaily movement that feels good to you - walking outside, dancing, stretching, gyming. Stitching, drawing, working with your hands. Noticing the sensations in your body that emerge as you create. Presence with the physical process, not just the outcome. Making outside, with places.How can you begin weaving these wisdom centres into your creative practice?Some practical ways I've discovered through my own creative journey, many of which we unpack and practice together in Weaving Worlds:* Create from contemplative states. Let the repetitive actions of your craft - whether it's stitching, writing, painting - become a form of moving meditation that allows you to access deeper states and portals to new possibilities.* Work in different places. Let your environment inform your work. Make outside sometimes. Let the elements participate and mark your work. How does your work become a collaboration between you and place?* Ask your materials how they want to co-create with you and what they want to become, rather than imposing predetermined outcomes. Listen with more than your ears.* Take your creative work to gatherings, on public transport, to parks. Let the energy of places and people weave into what you're making.* Learn to connect into and trust your intuition. Intuitive hits feel different for all of us - are your fast, subtle, hit hard, where do you feel them in your body? Develop a relationship with this part of you.* Create ritual around your making. Light a candle. Set an intention. Work with reverence for the worlds you're bringing into being.* Let go of ‘pristine’ and ‘perfect’ outcomes. Surrender to co-creating with the process itself.Embodiment is an emergent and relational process. It is not achieved overnight, and takes time and intentionality through repetitive small actions in the day-to-day. And it’s going to look different for all of us.We don't have all of the answers and never will. And I find this to be so liberating.But coming into a deeper relational weave with all of our wisdom centres and beginning to attune to them, to relate to them and allow them to express themselves through us, and with us, this moves us beyond just thinking about change work, about sustainability, about our creations, toward embodiment.I believe that the goal shouldn't be about what we can take from all of our wisdom centres as well as diverse ways of being and practicing in the world, many of which I mention above. We completely need to let go of this extractive and goal-orientated way of thinking if something else is to emerge.Instead, can we allow ourselves to play, to explore, to relate to these parts of ourselves, of our communities, through a curiosity, a detachment from outcomes, as well as a reverence and reciprocity for the gifts we continue to be given through life each and everyday.Embodiment requires all of this.I would love to know what your relationship to embodiment is like?As always, Loads of Love,Ania xx This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

Hey Loves,This morning I presented some of my PhD research at the 'Capturing Practice' ADPRex conference hosted by the University of Singapore and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. I shared about some of my practice and documentation as done through textile embroideries, and how material making practices can help us think through pluriversality for fashion-textiles beyond the remits of the mind. This is a short presentation which I’ve included the audio for here, as well as my accompanying visual slides detailing the practice.Abstract:This paper examines how traditional embroidery practices function as both documentation and knowledge generation within fashion-textile research. Drawing from a doctoral study on pluriversal approaches to fashion-textiles, the research employed practice-led methodologies within a performative research paradigm (Bolt, 2008; Haseman, 2006), using embroidery as a method for capturing and materialising theoretical concepts. Through a series of textile works created over a two-year period, hand stitching served as an embodied form of ‘material thinking’ (Carter, 2004), recording theoretical explorations while generating tacit insights inaccessible through traditional academic writing. The research revealed that embroidery functions as what Ingold (2011) terms ‘thinking through making’, where knowledge emerges through the relations between researcher, materials, processes, and place. Findings demonstrated that embodied documentation through textile practices creates what St. Pierre (2020) calls ‘a nourishing dialogue with the material environment’, facilitating access to ancestral knowledge that aligns with historical understandings of textiles as world-making practices (Survo, 2012; Mencej, 2011). The repeated act of stitching established what Bolt (2008) identifies as performative forces that transform material realities and theoretical understandings simultaneously. This research contributes to discussions about practice documentation by revealing how traditional textile techniques serve as more than documentation—they become enactive, situated methods through which pluriversal ontologies can materialise and find expression in what Escobar (2018) calls “the relational dimension of life.”Embroidering regularly has been such a potent practice for me in coming into new knowledge, unlearning old and outdated fashion-textile paradigms I don’t want to take forward anymore, and has been such a vessel for healing, embodiment, introspection and connection to my ancestors as well as future visions. I hope you enjoy andI’d love to hear your feedback, what resonates, or how you relate to your practice and what it’s allowed you to do (and undo). Loads of Love,Ania xx This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe

Fashion-Textiles as Alive: Methods for Co-Creative and Ritual Practices in the Pluriverse.Recorded presentation as part of the 'Between the Seams' Symposium at the Royal College of Art, 14th March 2025. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aniaz.substack.com/subscribe