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OYUNA embarks on a mission of cultural and environmental stewardship, weaving together the threads of tradition and modernity to safeguard Mongolian nomadic heritage through sustainable cashmere practices.
For our Love Ethic edition, we visited the medicinal herb garden of Dr. Hauschka at the foot of the Swabian Jura and captured our impressions from this magical encounter.
Fashion researcher Ania Zoltkowski explores how embracing an ethic of love in the realm of fashion and textiles can serve as a powerful force of societal and cultural change, manifesting in craftsmanship, community bonds and connections to place.
In times of polarization, division and disorientation: What would a world look like in which an ethic of love is lived?
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As a consequence of accelerated climate change, species have been forced to create new forms of survival methods to adapt to extreme habitats. Alliances with other life forms have emerged, and new interspecific relationships are appearing, such as those of Leafy Seadragon.
Read MoreChange is Constant (Be Like Water) explores the fluidity of gender and the use of fashion design as a tool to express the plural and always evolving approaches to gender that exist outside of the restricting binary.
Read MoreToday’s global youths are at the forefront of activism, changing and shaping the political landscapes of their respective countries. As the pressure to initiate real change rapidly mounts, they share raw and unfiltered truths, vigorously paving a new path for humanity’s future.
Read More“Are you here to stay” emphasizes the human impact on ecosystems and individual living things in a contemporary culture of consumption.
Read MoreSimone Weil (1909 Paris – 1943 Ashford) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. This story of visual poetry is loosely inspired by her compilation of aphorisms, “La pesanteur et la grâce”, a collection of her handwritten notes, published by a close friend shortly after her sudden death in 1943.
Read More20th century Modernist artist Georgia O’Keefe’s love of nature was fostered from an early age, growing up on her parents’ farm in rural Wisconsin, surrounded by wheat fields.
Read MoreSince the beginnings of human existence, there has been a seemingly unbreakable bond, one of co-dependency, reverence and respect between humans and plants. In the following story, Idun, Narumi and Tash invite us into their personal journeys of becoming herbalists, feminists, wildcrafters, foragers and witches, and share with us how they have learned to speak the sacred language of life.
Read MoreA poetic short film by Tiago Almança about overcoming our separation from nature, about re-experiencing our innate connection.
Read MoreAli Goodman, James Bannister and Sarah Johnson give us an insight into how working, living and collaborating in a rural setting during the pandemic can spark wholesome perspectives and radical shifts in perception.
Read MoreWe are not made to be autonomous, and we are not alone. We are in a constant state of interbeing – touched by life. I can only nurture myself by taking care of you. Thus the essence of ME is YOU.
Read MoreIn the stillness of the rock nothing is at rest. Every particle moves, wanders, circulates.
Read More“As we destroy beings, we destroy our own beingness. No longer enmeshed in a web of intimate, mutual relationships, no longer participating in life around us, surrounded by contained, dead things, we become less alive ourselves (...) We yearn to recover life. We want to overturn the Age of Separation.” (Charles Eisenstein)
Read MoreUsually, when we think of craft, the ‘hand-made’ immediately comes to mind. Yet, we live in an increasingly accelerated, digitalised age. How does this shift effect the position of the craftsperson, the definition of craftsmanship, and its value?
Read More“Technique and skills must be absorbed and wrapped up and put away to become such an integral part of yourself that they will be revealed in your work without your thought.” – Shoji Hamada
Read More“Only that which bears the fingerprints of our doings can be inherited; almost everything else is doomed to be forgotten.” Anna Rosa Krau explores the connection between our hands and our thoughts.
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