Welcome to Weaving Beings: Conversations with The Lissome.

These conversations are here to herald in the latest edition, number four, entitled Love Ethic. Follow us along each month as we speak to the conscious creators who feature in the magazine to explore their ideas and inspirations as it relates to bell hooks’ iconic work – All About Love: New Visions.

This is a collaboration with The Architecture of Contemplation podcast and audio producer Ivan d’Avoine. Support the show with a membership subscription.

 
 

Episode 6: Dr. Ania Zoltkowski on Pluriversal Paradigms for Fashion

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Ania Zoltkowski – a sustainable fashion-textile designer and educator. We learn about: Ania’s early start in fashion design; how these early experiences showed her the limitations of the mass scale fashion industry; her desire to learn how a new vision of craft and making could be realised; connecting with craft from her own roots and finding embodied joy within it; the need for a radical shift towards love to help heal our relationship to Nature and how the story that Ania contributed to the latest issue of The Lissome, was such a powerful rite of passage.

 
 

Episode 5: Photographer Andrés Altamirano on the Wisdom of the Andes

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Andrés Altamirano, an Ecuadorian-born visual artist and photographer working primarily between New York and Latin America. Andrés’ work explores the intricate facets of identity, culture, and language within transitional spaces. In this conversation, we discuss Andrés’ identity and using his passion for story-telling to share the richness of his heritage; themes of migration and loss of identity; the ability of technology to empower local communities on their own terms; the wisdom contained within the mountains and animal life of the Andes; seeing textiles as a means of keeping a community woven together in solidarity and the hope for intergenerational awareness; and, finally, how the story in the latest issue of The Lissome came to be.

 
 

Episode 4: Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd on Fashion Fictions and Meeting the Mushrooms

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd – Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design. We learn about: Amy’s decades long work as a designer, maker, researcher and writer in the fields of fashion and sustainability; her own experience and learnings in creating a knitwear brand; building a participatory culture that is multidisciplinary and truly global; the story that inspired Amy to create Fashion Fictions; using the imagination as a radical tool for future-building, and how one particular Fashion Fiction made its way into the latest issue of The Lissome.

 
 

Episode 1: Dörte de Jesus on the Narrative and Curation of “Love Ethic”

This first episode finds Dörte de Jesus, founder and editorial director of The Lissome, in conversation with Hardeep Kaur, host of The Architecture of Contemplation podcast. We learn about Dörte’s origin story, the spark that launched The Lissome, the journey it’s been to get to the latest, beautiful edition – Love Ethic – out into the world, and what the future holds for this community of conscious creators.

 
 

Episode 2: Dr Mila Burcikova on the Seasons of Garden and Fashion Making

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Dr Mila Burcikova – a designer, maker, and researcher at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion. We learn about: Mila’s journey as a maker and academic in the field of sustainable fashion, her current research project, Life in Clothes, her thoughts on the interconnections and parallels between fashion-making and farming practices, the role of time and cyclical patterns of nature in sustainable living, and the unique story behind Mila’s feature in the latest issue of The Lissome.

 

Episode 3: Virginia Vigliar on Poetic Antidotes in Times of Crises

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Virginia Vigiliar – a writer and curator exploring justice, ecology, feminism, and art through a poetic lens. We learn about: Virginia's own early questioning of the systems in which she was immersed, the process of de-conditioning from these systems, activating the craft of story-telling and ritual to help others in their own seeking, harnessing care and joy over anger and fear, and the unexpected story that led to Virginia's feature in the latest issue of The Lissome.