11/03/2026
Regenerative Fellowship Kuching
4–6 March 2026, Kuching, Borneo
I had the opportunity to join the
Regenerative Fellowship Kuching,
where practitioners from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, and Japan gathered across fields such as design, art, and business.
We came together around a shared question:
How might our everyday practices and work contribute to regenerative futures?
During these days we walked through the city,
met local people, shared conversations,
and tasted food rooted in the land and culture of Borneo.
Slowly, the question began to settle into the body.
Across cultures and perspectives,
we spent time imagining what more beautiful futures might look like.
To be honest, I had kept some distance from the word regenerative.
Like many emerging concepts, it risks becoming another fashionable term in the business world.
Yet this is precisely why such ideas deserve careful listening.
Discussing them with people from very different cultural contexts
was a rare and valuable experience.
One realization stayed with me:
Regenerative ways of living often begin by placing culture
and long temporal perspectives at the center.
At the same time, politics plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions for such possibilities.
Hearing about cultural policies and approaches to ethnic diversity across countries opened an important perspective.
I was also deeply impressed by the story behind the Borneo Cultural Museum.
Over eight years, its creators listened to voices from many communities and wove together a narrative that places minority cultures—and even the voiceless presence of nature—at the center.
My sincere thanks to
for designing such rich experiences that entered the body,
and hosting us with extraordinary generosity and care,
the for their support,
the organizers & ,
for opening the door for us,
for the beautiful photos,
and all the wonderful people I had the joy of sharing this time with.
