Regenerative Transmissions is a newsletter about a deep desire to move away from extractive relating to the living world, into regenerative and mutual interbeing. Transforming perceptions of multispecies design, healing, and remembering.
Why this?
Because the world is on the brink of deep extinction.
Because beauty can meet form through the intersection of unexpected alchemy.
Because we need radically different materials for the new world we are imagining. To adopt a new way of being that is in alignment with the rest of the planet.
Regeneration is a way of being, a mode of existence.
It does not succumb to the extractive nature of current economical models. It does not give into the provocation of society’s deep rush.
It is doing its own thing.
Regeneration is a joker, a trickster that meets death, and is reborn anew.
Regeneration = transformation.
We do not regenerate back, we regenerate forwards, into a new form that is being asked of us to incarnate.
Asked not by the demands of a crumbling system, gripping its last hope targeted at the most sensitive kind.
But asked by our higher purpose, our essence. Regeneration willingly gives up parts of itself that need to decay, for new emergent forms to surface.
I see mycelium as the portal for earth’s regeneration, the portal into death, decay, and new birth.
It is as regenerative itself, as it brings this essential quality to the earth’s ecosystems.
Because some threads don't fit the loom.
About Me
Hey!
My name is Rūta Žemčugovaitė, currently living in Berlin, Germany.
I am a writer, artist, and researcher, working with mycelium for regenerative futures.
Born & grew up in Lithuania, studied and lived in Scotland for 6 years.
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Started off by studying psychology (BSc), then learning to facilitate trauma healing and shadow work in Costa Rica. Practiced that for a while in private practice. Also started a podcast, Modern Psyche.
After moving to Berlin, dove into work with technology: learned coding, and started running Humane Tech Berlin group.
Oscillated between ethical AI research, mycology (and trying to build things out of mycelium), affective computing, spatial sound design, creating art, regenerative practices, and writing.
