In this episode of Weaving Beings, Season Two, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by writer and sustainability journalist Anna Roos van Wijngaarden to explore the delicate art of listening – as a writer, as a traveller and as a guest on the land. The conversation traces Anna’s recent journey into the Peruvian Amazon, where she met designers and researchers working with native materials like kapok and shiringa, fibres that hold the potential to regenerate the ecosystems they come from.
Together, they speak about authorship, relational knowledge and the tension between regenerative intention and systemic extraction. Anna reflects on what it means to move at the pace of trust, to write with integrity and to observe without taking.
From textile rituals in the rainforest to her own daily practices of presence and care, this episode offers a reflection on the responsibilities of storytelling and the value of slowing down.
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