The Ecosystem Incubator - Fashion in living systems – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Welcoming Randi Seiff of the ground breaking Treun House Atelier, Treun are working change along every touch point of their start up from manufacturing in their made to order approach, to the tech right to the next gen fibers and packaging that are applied over the collections.

It is always an honor to collaborate with Randi - and she sets the bar for the industry in her agile and lean approach.

‘’Enjoy what you are doing, Share what you have learned’’

Fascinating conversation with the great women at Contemporary Hempery.  We are working with them in one of our first 4 collaborative co-creation pods.

Working with localised Hemp fibre production, forging new paths to the future. The coming together of all communities around new systems, from the farm, to hand spinners to the business space. Realising this new future is very much in the space of collaboration in itself. 

Learn about the great qualities of growing hemp and processing of it.  Discussing bast fibers in general showcasing also nettle fibers and the great Nettle dress film WATCH IT .. 

Developing with old ways of growing hemp but adding in new modern ways that work In a regenerative, standing on the shoulders of the old hemp industry and stepping into a contemporary space.

JOIN US on the Harvest Retreat to help the next phase of this project, we are creating a micro festival to fund and to share the experience featuring not only the Hemp and the heroes of this story, but great music, locally grown food and fabulous fun.

In the Incubator we work always in collaboration finding unique ways to come together in business development for a regenerative future - To find out how the Incubator could be beneficial to your business or innovation - check out our website here

Jose Leal from Radical Purpose - talks about building business in collaboration, understanding human nature via neuroscience… he speaks of Antonio Damasio and his work in the space of feelings  - and how we work and build with them as a human centric level of co-creation.

Working from needs making meaning and sense of the world, the need to create, nurture, produce and organise, how we meet our ‘being’ needs  & finding people who we want to belong with , working with our scale of purpose. 

The ‘need’ is what binds us .. being vunerable enough to share our innate needs in being. That ideas themselves are ephemeral, agile and constantly fluid...

We discuss the new way of working as a collaborative - one of which we are working with inside The Ecosystem Incubator - at first in the fashion space in action.

Set the human context first - then set the content - work with connection.. using tools not rules. Coming away from force and control moving to working with needs of the collaborative.

Living in whole systems, very much Life-centric systems in understanding of the needs of re-connection in all our systems.

Welcome to series 2 of The Ecosystem Incubator – ‘’Into The Regenerative’’ where we are interviewing players from regenerative, new economic and new living systems approaches. The Ecosystem features a lot of the learnings from these bases, so we see it as a great way to showcase new ideas and ways of building in the new business landscape.

In this Episode we are talking with Okwudili Ogbu a philosopher who is author of ‘’ The Science of Expectation’’, he looks at the pursuit of happiness - and how that relates to reduction of over consumption and resources for the world – how that goes hand in hand.

The good life being materially detached, not connected to material things – In turn saving the planet, happiness and more equality. 

Lack brings in a drive for life, a meaning – so bringing and moving the lens to look at inadequacy improves drive and in turn happiness.  Abundance doesn’t always cause happiness, can create more depression. 

He looks at consumption itself and how that creates unhappiness over all and that simplifying our existence is key.  Such a resonance with similar thinking from Helena Norberg Hodge, Ancient futures book in terms of the lens that we are looking at abundance. 

Suffering comes with comparison and that everything boarders with expectation – the expectation of being something, balancing ecology, happiness and measuring new success on a different playing fields.

Welcome to series 2 of The Ecosystem Incubator – ‘’Into The Regenerative’’ where we are interviewing players from regenerative, new economic and new living systems approaches. The Ecosystem features a lot of the learnings from these bases, so we see it as a great way to showcase new ideas and ways of building in the new business landscape.

This podcast features Erinch Sahan who is the business lead for ‘The Doughnut Economics Action Lab ‘.. created by the great Kate Raworth.  A fascinating journey into new regenerative futures with Enrich, interesting talking with him about a future that doesn’t rely on competition but thrives on collaboration.  Exactly the approach that we have in The Incubator.  

How wonderful to hear him talk of the forest analogy, where no one tree in the forest can be a forest alone –the very words that we use to describe The Eco-systemic system that we grow our forest with.  So great to hear of so many existing models of business that we can utilise to work with, and that we are no longer stuck to one way of working.

 In a move away from GDP growth, where do we go? Enrich gives some great examples of companies already moving into this space of sharing and living with different principles.  

 A really inspiring and energetic journey into the world of ‘Doughnut Economics’ and how we can apply regenerative and distributive relationships within our businesses. 

Nicola talks of her experience in the fashion industry in the area of intimate apparel and her human/life centric way of working and consulting with brands.  Mindset shifts being a key part of building as well as an Intergenerational respect in how she creates.

Looking at the industry in new ways and taking on working with people where they are and working with new innovation and ideas.  Moving from old mindsets to new ones, how she is seeing supply and the industry work in so many agile different ways.

 Collaboration and how we action that building with The Ecosystem Incubator , sharing ideas and new industry experience, discussing conscious collaboration with a magical authentic quality. 

Inter industry connectedness and inspirations out of the fashion space that we can build with. 

Inner connection, ecstatic dance and meditation. Coming out of fear and scarcity into the choice to acting from a place of collaboration, emotional intelligence and be able to act in a truly sustainable.

For a considered, holistic life and human centric approach to the industry delve in here, the birth of a new industry space is upon us. 

I have known Belo throughout my journey as a sustainability leader, we already created a mutually beneficial collaboration together.. It is great to hear about Maria and Charlotte's journey.

We go into creation with the locality in mind - how to respect the bio-region that you are creating within - which is such a fundamental part of building towards the regenerative.

Of course its a journey and its great to hear that Belo are moving into thinking about the end life of the bags - even though they are already circulating  from waste such as seat belts and inner tubes from other industries - which makes their brand already on the journey of circularity.  When we move to the regenerative way of being with a product at least - the afterlife of the product is so important to build into.

This is no mean feat for small businesses such as Belo, which is why we will be looking at this as a collaborative arm inside The Ecosystem Incubator.

It is great to hear of the social change that Belo created with their partnerships with NGOs In Brazil.. and how that inspired Maria on the journey, as well as our connection and their connection through me to our first Member Circularity professional Ken Alston. 

If you want to learn even more about Ken - go to our first podcast and take a listen - he is a wealth of knowledge, it is an honour to have brilliant minds, brands and personalities like Ken and Maria start to join us. 

With gratitude we share the great Maria Elisa Costa

Building a small fashion business is not something to be taken on lightly, it is a journey of wonderful discovery, tenacity and grit.  Building it with heart is even more of a journey.

Our new member Rochelle from Roc Ethical takes us thought her journey of building a business out of industry waste from SriLanka.  Based in the UK, the journey has been challenging during cover times to keep going and takes constant communication to work the product and get It right.

She works with single women in SriLanka who stitch for her the items from what the industry would send to landfill or incinerate.

I always love to speak with Rochelle she is a breath of fresh air in  an industry than can so often be about ego.  

We take a deep dive with Katheline Vandal the creator of Vandal Kids.  A kids wear start up based around longevity and long wearing garments for children.

When creating a small business In fashion we run up against economies of scale, it is very difficult to create something that is reducing over production when the system itself is set to a large scale.  We discuss how in The Ecosystem Incubator we could as a collaborative network build with each other and work together on co-creation, hence reducing over production. 

Katheline has a background in marketing and very much sees the value in co-marketing with the members in the Ecosystem and as it grows this can become a space that is nurturing for young brand talent as well as lifting B2B operations.

She talks of her journey in building Vandal Kids and learning these things sometimes the hard way.  We also discuss the inner work needed to see the limiting beliefs that are holding us back from progressing in business and how we work with our respective coaches and business partners to move into a new space with it.

Our Founder Rachel Sheila Kan, worked with Katheline on the latter part of her brand development with her company Circular Earth.

In this episode we introduce Shan Elangovan who is a member and collaborator in The Ecosystem Incubator - with his business CEAE utilising factory floor textile waste into packaging and building with R&D in sustainable packaging ... and into the future of naturally dyed products in his new ventures.

We loved speaking with Shan, he has a real down to earth way of looking at sustainability In the design and development phase.. he rightly says that a lot of the answers are out there for a sustainable textile futures - what we need is the economic will to be able to make that work in our world.  That yes it does cost more to add sustainability to your fashion business, however it is those that don't that will suffer in the future.

What he says about The Ecosystem Incubator, was inspired.

'' The Incubator is limitless and a great initiative'

We will continue to build in the ecosystem with Shan and others as they join and understand and we love working with such passionate sustainability professionals like Shan

If you are looking for a sustainable  packaging solution - talk to Shan