share · tinker · connect
a place for building communities and rethinking everyday skills
yurt collective acts as a space where individuals with environmental sensitivities, a passion for making, and an interest in design and craftsmanship gather to reimagine the future of materials, tools, practices, and communities related to these fields.
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Origins
A yurt is a crafted space, made of felted wool and wooden sticks. Its design for quick assembly and disassembly facilitates the mobile lifestyle of the nomadic Turkic tribes. It is both temporary and permanent, becoming a part of the landscapes it moves around in.
A clan or an extended family shares their yurt. Each member contributes to the well-being of their community with their skills, knowledge, dreams, and compassion. The yurt serves for their physical and creative needs: it is an active environment for crafting, storytelling, and poetry.
When the time for moving to a new location comes, yurt is de-assembled, leaving no harmful trace behind it. People carry their creativity with them until they find their next stop and are ready to be part of the new landscape. Things that exist in this new surrounding shape the next chapter of crafts, stories and poems. This is how the community keeps growing.
Philosophy
Through creative production and discussions, yurt collective aims to
delve into the ever-expanding ecologies in which humans are embedded, and
foster caring relationships with human and nonhuman communities.
Just like living in a yurt, the collective becomes part of the larger landscapes of related fields: creativity and coexistence, crafts and design, environment and sustainability.
yurt aspires to function as a platform for knowledge exchange, tinker about textile materials and fibers, and develop new services, systems, and products, as well as new mindsets, behaviors, and habits.
Its goal is to inspire individuals to become less reliant on external resources and live in harmony with nature, collectively.
It is open to everyone from any region of the world to participate in the forums, workshops, seminars, and exhibitions.
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Updates
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Gardening in the Balcony
March, 7th at 12pm, Online.
In this workshop, we will briefly discuss how to take care of house plants. Then, together, we will plant spring onions.
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Yogurt Making
February 24th at 12 pm, Online.
In this workshop, we will make yogurt, a delicacy made with milk. After discussing methods of food preservation, we will make our own batch.
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Garment Mending
January 27th at 12 pm, Online.
Do you have ripped-off buttons? Holes in your shirts? Broken seams? Join this workshop to take care of your garments and get some mending tips.
Who are we?
We are an evergrowing nomadic community.
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yurt collective offers space to develop skills for sustainable everyday habits. It facilitates peer-learning through events such as workshops, seminars, and conversations.
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We aim to connect people who share similar sensitivities about social and environmental interactions. Our goal is to facilitate conversations to understand how to be a human in the 21st century.
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We aim to bring people together to make the world a better place for all existing beings.