Threads from the Pluriverse Podcast
This podcast examines how fashion and textiles can shift from extractive to regenerative systems, drawing on pluriversal wisdoms, ancient practices, and place-based approaches. Hosted by Dr. Ania Zoltkowski, an independent educator-designer-researcher, each episode offers insights for practitioners, scholars, and leaders. It is a co-creation with the Threads from the Pluriverse Substack.
Episodes
Regeneration Has To Also Be Within
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
Why Fashion-Textiles Needs More Than Sustainability: Understanding the Current Crisis
🎧 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 usual
Regenerative Leadership for Fashion
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, reveren
From Extractive to Relational Ways of Creating
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 def
Autonomous Creating
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 so
Why Embodiment is Vital for Creatives
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
Stitching Worlds: Embroidery as Performative Documentation of Pluriversal Fashion-Textile Practices
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. T
Fashion-Textiles as Alive: Methods for Co-Creative and Ritual Practices in the Pluriverse
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
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