Here are some answers to the most frequently asked questions about our call to stitch 2025. How do I sign up? We are asking everyone to register so that we make sure to stay in touch with all of you. Contacts through different social media platforms and messaging apps are too much for us to […]
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When your individual or collective piece is finished, we ask that you follow these steps to help us assemble your creation, your photos, and your testimony(ies) when installing the mega collective creation. Sign your creation We would like all pieces to bear the name or mark of those who created them somewhere. You can embroider […]
Less waste In Mexico City, researchers at the UAM-Azcapotzalco calculate that each day some 300-500 tonnes of clothes and fabric go to landfill. This is only counting domestic waste, without considering textile factory pre-consumer waste. Even worse: most of the clothes and fabric that are thrown away are practically new. Zurciendo el Planeta invites you […]
In their book Active Hope, Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone say that the Great Turning has already begun, that many of us simply don’t see it yet, because we are immersed in it, just like when you see an impressionist painting up close and it seems like just a bunch of arbitrary colored dots, but […]
Rob Hopkins says that we need to imagine a future so attractive, so delicious and desirable that we yearn for it more than other things. The longing created by that “memory of the future” should be like the flavour of the cake my mum made when I was a child, or the smell of sunrise […]
How to prepare your collaboration: There are 3 ways to participate in the great 2025 collective creation that will showcase the diversity of actions in defense of nature and the common good around the world. When you start, which ever option you choose, please let us know on the link below. This helps us to […]
With the 2025 Call to stitch, we seek the creation of an enormous collective artwork made of secondhand clothing that showcases the strength, diversity, beauty, and magnitude of collaborative action in the world. We are in the midst of an eco-social crisis, climate change, and severe ecosystem degradation. The UN conferences, known as Climate change […]
The United Nations climate conferences are one of the key elements of the UN’s mechanism to mitigate, reverse, and address the issue of climate change. They began in 1996, and in 2025, the thirtieth multilateral meeting will be held in Belém, Brazil, where the Amazon river flows into the Atlantic Ocean. In those 30 years, […]
This guide is for neighborhood, community, and collective groups that are already active in their locality and wish to come together to express a shared idea through a collective textile creation. The first part of this guide discusses materials and measurements (Material Matters). The second part addresses the theme, which each group will define to […]
This guide is for all collectives or groups that stitch together and who want to delve deeper into imagining the world we yearn for and who wish to capture their visions of the future in a textile creation. One might say that human societies have two boundaries. One boundary is drawn by the requirements of […]