Welcome to the Entanglists

Hello, and welcome to The Entanglists, a podcast made by two latin-americans in the Design Department of Linnaeus University.

The episode explains what is the concept and idea behind The Entanglists, and is presented by Coral Michelin and Juliana restrepo-Giraldo..

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Below is our Manifesto:

We are Entanglists from the Global South living in the Global North. To be an entanglist means to be a connector between diverse perspectives and matters, tangible or intangible. Entanglists seek to recognize relations around them in order to create, facilitate and host gatherings where different threads (themes, topics, interests), roots (backgrounds, traditions, knowledges), and ideas (methods, visions, understandings) can be connected and mixed to generate new imaginaries, relationships and collaborations.

We are continuously exploring this skill through different projects and formats. This podcast is one of the ways in which we envision creating spaces for entanglements which are accessible and open to diversity and emergence. Our research projects, our teaching, and our community of practice are other forms of exploring what is to become entangled with the world around us while walking towards regenerated futures.

These different initiatives are based on a set of shared values that we use to foster meeting spaces of dialogue, learning, and exchange from within and beyond design and academia.

• Decolonial: We recognise, value and are committed to inviting diverse voices that represent different ways of knowing and different practices.
• Relational: We aim to explore and show interconnections to challenge dichotomies and categorizations. Also, through our work, to build respectful relationships with ourselves, places, and living beings.
• Positionality: Our identities and relationships with ourselves and others are dynamic and change in connection to contexts. We aim to acknowledge how different positionings are always subject to power dynamics and how this can help us to build more respectful and ethical relationships.

Other values we hold: Curiosity; Transdisciplinarity; Intersectionality; Vulnerability.

We are a platform of/for people changing the world through and beyond design.