You don’t force a river to flow — you restore the landscape so it can find its course
I listen to myself talk a lot about rewilding lately. Maybe too much. Probably too much actually (I see those eyes gaze at time). But I have fallen deeply in love with the concept of rewilding.
In this article I will discuss the benefit of rewilding fashion. Not to look wild or trendy or anything like that, but to massage away the tension between preservation and innovation (so to speak). This is the first of three articles. I hope you will enjoy.
I have been working for some years now on crafts preservation in Indonesia. This has made me aware of an array of obstacles and humbled me to the reality that preserving traditional crafts is not simply a matter of storytelling, financial support, or boosting sales.
When examining traditional practices and materials, the ethics of using cultural heritage in contemporary design become critical. Often, these practices are intertwined with the desire to preserve and protect them from extinction, but this approach can inadvertently lead to the stagnation of the very creativity they were meant to nurture, and at times even to exploitation. In contrast, rewilding offers an alternative framework — one that embraces evolution and natural growth, while resisting…