10 Day Leadership Program

10 Day Leadership Program

¨ The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting¨ Plutarch

An invitacion to weave together

OVERVIEW

EVERY FIBRE OF YOUR BEING

We cannot effectively understand, change or tinker with a system to improve it if we dont go back to its first principles. Fibre is cloth ́s most granular unit, the smallest form of self we call itself. To feel something deeply is to feel it through every fibre of your being.
A 10 day master leadership program, full of workshops, talks, debates and round table discussions led by celebrated maestros and maestras from the world of heritage textile craft, activism, diversity of Fibers, indigenous knowledge, new materials, regenerative agriculture and experts from the tech world working on the future (ethics, AI, Machine Learning).
It is urgent that these worlds, the past and the future, be brought together at this very pivotal moment to dialogue with each other and together build a new narrative that is informed by ancestral knowledge and powered by exciting new technology.
We need to calibrate our compass before we turbo boost
into the future!

These 10 days did incite, inspire and elate with hope and purpose.

Why now ?

It is clear that the Digital Age has brought about some exciting disruptions.

1) Unprecedented Transparency : Satelites and other remote sensors in cell phones and elsewhere are making transparency the norm and privacy harder to find.

2) Mass Collaboration : The social web and the rapid spread of mobile devices are giving rise to new ways to collaborate around the world.

3) Intelligent Systems: Big Data, Machine Learning capabilities, Cloud Computing have led to advances like ChatGPT, DALL.E2 and other enabled smart systems that combine human and machine intelliegence.

4) Mixed Reality : We are now in a time where there is a merging of real and virtual worlds, This mixed reality is shifting how we engage with each other and the
world around us.
Together these and other disruptions are already shifting current power dynamics, norms and values

¿But how do we steer these disruptors towards the path we want ?

So far the Digital age has contributed to unsustainable production and consumption patterns as well as increasing inequities around the world.
No one knows where these digital disruptors will lead. There are those who swear by the power of technology to save us and others who paint a pretty grim dystopic future.
We believe its urgent we start to leverage these disruptions to drive
the change we want to see.

Why us ?

Those of us passionate about heritage craft can give many reasons for our obsession but these 4 values that craft embodies are pivotal for a real system change thinking.

1) Passion for Quality : Artisanship prioritizes quality and instills in the practitioner a passion to excel. So sucess is quality not quantity, key to a sustainable future.

2) Human Centric : Craft is about self-expression through honing of skills and personal perseverance but is also deeply rooted in community and harmony with the natural world.

3) Culture of Beauty : Craft promotes the pursuit of beauty and as a famous quote from Dostoevsky’s goes ̈the world will be saved by beauty ̈

4) Intergenerational Ethos : An artisan practices his/her craft like a ritual that embodies our connectivity to the past and a commitment to our shared future.

This digital age needs to be informed by these values for which its urgent we participate and lead to drive the change we want to see. This cohort will deep dive into the diverisity of Fibres, local practices and indigenous knowledge we are on the brink of loosing.

̈There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew ̈ Marshall McLuhan