Weaving as Worlding Practices with Earth Beings (WeB)

Guided by a distinct more-than-human apprehension of the world, Weaving as Worlding Practices with Earth Beings (WeB) investigates design practices of co-creation in two communities. The I.N.S.E.C.T.

Community composed of western scholars, artists, designers, and biologists, and the Sarayaku people, an indigenous nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon with its committee of young activists, called Samaruta.

Combining in situ and remote experiences, WeB creates modalities of learning and doing that emerge in shared moments with human and non-human beings and through tangible communication with clay, wood, skin, and textiles.

First, artefacts transit across the two communities to demonstrate tangible, vibratory, and acoustic qualities of connecting different aesthetic worlds and the artefacts will remain in the two communities as a representation of our cross-cultural weaving.

In this process, we develop educational programs that integrate other modes of knowledge production and contribute to a novel practice of ethical collaboration.

Characterised by an abiding respect and attentiveness to the cultural understandings of crafting, movements, and rhythms in Sarayaku, particularly their weaving practices, awana, we combine western and indigenous methods of co-creation to exercise alternative knowledge-making practices that overturn European and Anglo-American models and perceptions in design.