SAMUEL BAUTISTA LAZO on Handmade Futures /322

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Grounding this conversation within Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico, guest Samuel Bautista Lazo, brings listeners into an insightful conversation on the value of craftwork that connects us to the past and plants seeds for the future. Here, Samuel outlines the weaving traditions of the Benzaa people, offering insight into a trade and lifeway shaped intimately by ancestry and the land. Through his family’s weaving business, Samuel emphasizes the importance of creating connection and meanin...

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1:06.4	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
1:10.7	Today I'm speaking with Samuel Batista-Lazo.
1:14.7	Our weavings are the way I see it. They're more than fabric. They are the living
1:20.7	books of rancestors, the patterns and symbols that we weave carry stories that are encoded
1:28.4	in those sacred geometrical forms that we have memorized.
1:35.6	Dr. Samuel Batista-Lazo is a benza zapo tech weaver from Tio Titlán de Val,
1:42.7	Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2013 he obtained his PhD in engineering from the University of Liverpool
1:49.9	in the UK, doing research in the topic of sustainable manufacturing. Samuel's research focused
1:55.6	on finding ways to help industry mimic nature, where there is no waste. He created tools that
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