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Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastRegeneration Has To Also Be WithinEpisode 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-wo...
2025-11-1832 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastWhy 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 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 an...
2025-10-2237 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastRegenerative Leadership for FashionHey 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.T...
2025-09-2551 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastFrom Extractive to Relational Ways of CreatingThis 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...
2025-08-2618 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastAutonomous CreatingHello 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 r...
2025-08-2019 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastWhy Embodiment is Vital for CreativesTo 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 embo...
2025-08-0913 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastStitching Worlds: Embroidery as Performative Documentation of Pluriversal Fashion-Textile PracticesHey 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 pa...
2025-08-0622 min
Threads from the Pluriverse PodcastFashion-Textiles as Alive: Methods for Co-Creative and Ritual Practices in the PluriverseFashion-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
2025-03-1732 min
Spirit of DesignEco-spirituality and Design with Ania ZoltkowskiAnia is a sustainable fashion designer, educator and researcher, passionate about creating fashion futures that are resilient, creative, mindful and inclusive. She is also the co-creatress of Sustainability 5.0 and Spirit of Design podcast. In this episode, Ania dives into eco-spirituality and its place within the design process. Ania shares how eco-spirituality can provide a framework for holistic sustainability as well as the importance of community during this time. This was a really powerful episode and we’re excited to share it with you! Other concepts we chat about: Redefining success markers. Ecologising the fashion space. How brands market to ou...
2019-11-111h 01
Fashion WayfinderGetting to the Heart and Soul of Sustainability – with Ania ZoltkowskiAnia Zoltkowski has been working in-and-out of the fashion system for many years. From big and famous fashion houses, to living and working with underprivileged women in a fashion workshop in Lucknow, India. Her quest to find alignment between her ethical values and her love of fashion creativity has led her to pursue higher research in the field of sustainable fashion at the London College of Fashion, under the supervision of Kate Fletcher. In this episode she shares her research and ideas for the future of fashion… and a fresh and inspiring perspective on sustainability.
2018-10-2500 min