How do we stay rooted when the world feels as if it’s unravelling, and what new forms of wisdom can emerge from mythic imagination?
In this episode of Weaving Beings Season Two, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by storyteller, mythologist and elder Michael Meade for a conversation about finding meaning in liminal times. From his childhood discovery of myth to his lifelong work with mythology and ritual, Michael reflects on how collapse and renewal are twin movements in the story of life. Together, they explore the language of myth as a guide for clarity of vision and courage, the importance of creative and contemplative practice as an anchor, and the remembering that we are each a thread of genius in the great weaving of the world.
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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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How do we live in alignment when the world feels out of balance — and what becomes possible when we do?
In this episode of Weaving Beings Season Two, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by writer, filmmaker, and cultural thinker Lily Cole for a conversation that moves between early activism and spiritual presence, from fashion runways to forest stillness. Together, they explore the power of storytelling as a vessel for nuance and listening in a time of polarisation, and reflect on how practising peace and optimism in our own lives is one of the most radical things we can do right now.With references to Rumi and Ram Dass, the ecology of interconnection, and the tension between clarity and complexity, this episode invites listeners into a slower, more thoughtful pace — one that encourages a deeper form of agency, grounded not in reaction, but in care.
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In this opening episode, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by Dörte de Jesus, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lissome, who introduces the core theme of the new edition: resilience. In this thoughtful and expansive exchange, Dörte shares what led her to explore resilience and offers an intimate look into the creative process behind the magazine. From curating contributors and selecting interviewees like Lily Cole and Michael Meade, to directing a regenerative fashion shoot in Portugal, she reflects on how this issue came to life, how it redefined her understanding of resilience, and what it means for the future of fashion and community.
You’ll also hear reflections on the magazine-making process itself – how each edition is woven intuitively and in community, and how the magazine as a craft artefact in itself represents the values of The Lissome.
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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.
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Follow us along each month as we share a new insight with a creator featured in the magazine.
The Lissome is a magazine created by an international community of creatives in fashion and beyond. It is an independent publication exploring the intersection of earth-centred fashion design, mindfulness, ecology, and system transformation for poetic and sensitive storytelling. It provides a gentle space for conversations and contemplation, inspiring positive change and making hopeful futures for all. This series is a collaboration with the Architecture of Contemplation podcast; With The Lissome, we hope these conversations foster deep thoughts and even more deep actions. With this, we leave you to enjoy.
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More from Hardeep and The Architecture of Contemplation podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-architecture-of-contemplation/id1648892931, https://www.instagram.com/perse.london/
Audio Producer, Ivan d’Avoine: https://www.instagram.com/ivandavoine/
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.
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Follow us along each month as we share a new insight with a creator featured in the magazine.
The Lissome is a magazine created by an international community of creatives in fashion and beyond. It is an independent publication exploring the intersection of earth-centred fashion design, mindfulness, ecology, and system transformation for poetic and sensitive storytelling. It provides a gentle space for conversations and contemplation, inspiring positive change and making hopeful futures for all. This series is a collaboration with the Architecture of Contemplation podcast; With The Lissome, we hope these conversations foster deep thoughts and even more deep actions.
With this, we leave you to enjoy.
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More from Andrés Altamirano: https://www.andresaltamirano.com/
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Audio Producer, Ivan d’Avoine: https://www.instagram.com/ivandavoine/
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.
Follow us along each month as we share a new insight with a creator featured in the magazine.
The Lissome is a magazine created by an international community of creatives in fashion and beyond. It is an independent publication exploring the intersection of earth-centred fashion design, mindfulness, ecology, and system transformation for poetic and sensitive storytelling. It provides a gentle space for conversations and contemplation, inspiring positive change and making hopeful futures for all. This series is a collaboration with the Architecture of Contemplation podcast; With The Lissome, we hope these conversations foster deep thoughts and even more deep actions.
With this, we leave you to enjoy.
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Fashion Fictions: https://fashionfictions.org/
More from Hardeep and The Architecture of Contemplation podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-architecture-of-contemplation/id1648892931, https://www.instagram.com/perse.london/
Audio Producer, Ivan d’Avoine: https://www.instagram.com/ivandavoine/
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.
Follow us along each month as we share a new insight with a creator featured in the magazine.
The Lissome is a magazine created by an international community of creatives in fashion and beyond. It is an independent publication exploring the intersection of earth-centred fashion design, mindfulness, ecology, and system transformation for poetic and sensitive storytelling. It provides a gentle space for conversations and contemplation, inspiring positive change and making hopeful futures for all. This series is a collaboration with the Architecture of Contemplation podcast; With The Lissome, we hope these conversations foster deep thoughts and even more deep actions.
With this, we leave you to enjoy.
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More from Virginia: https://www.virginiavigliar.com/
Virginia’s course Wisdoms of Water: https://advaya.life/courses/wisdoms-of-water
More from Hardeep and The Architecture of Contemplation podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-architecture-of-contemplation/id1648892931, https://www.instagram.com/perse.london/
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.
Follow us along each month as we share a new insight with a creator featured in the magazine.
The Lissome is a magazine created by an international community of creatives in fashion and beyond. It is an independent publication exploring the intersection of earth-centred fashion design, mindfulness, ecology, and system transformation for poetic and sensitive storytelling. It provides a gentle space for conversations and contemplation, inspiring positive change and making hopeful futures for all. This series is a collaboration with the Architecture of Contemplation podcast; With The Lissome, we hope these conversations foster deep thoughts and even more deep actions.
With this, we leave you to enjoy.
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Audio Producer, Ivan d’Avoine: https://www.instagram.com/ivandavoine/
Welcome to Weaving Beings, Conversations with The Lissome.
These conversations are here to herald in the latest edition, number four, entitled Love Ethic. 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 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.
Follow us along each month as we share a new insight with a creator featured in the magazine.
The Lissome is a magazine created by an international community of creatives in fashion and beyond. It is an independent publication exploring the intersection of earth-centred fashion design, mindfulness, ecology, and system transformation through poetic and sensitive storytelling. It provides a gentle space for conversations and contemplation, inspiring positive change and making hopeful futures for all. This series is a collaboration with the Architecture of Contemplation podcast – together with The Lissome, we hope these conversations foster deep thoughts and even more deep actions.
With this, we leave you to enjoy.
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More from Dörte: https://www.dortedejesus.com
More from Hardeep and The Architecture of Contemplation podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-architecture-of-contemplation/id1648892931, https://www.instagram.com/perse.london/
Audio Producer, Ivan d’Avoine: https://www.instagram.com/ivandavoine/
