ABOUT

House of Inana is a creative studio and think tank that brings together experts from architecture, design, anthropology, art, writing, … . Playful, explorative, and boundaryless in its approach, the lab thrives on collaboration to work with complex projects, whether large-scale commissions or grassroots initiatives.

At its core, the studio seeks innovative solutions to some of today’s most urgent challenges: the exploitation of both human and natural resources. By weaving together niche expertise and diverse perspectives, the focus is on regenerative practices and the use of local resources to strengthen infrastructure, preserve traditional knowledge, and ensure it continues to flow across generations.

First out were the Black Sheep Project and the Aware Project, where the projects bridge disciplines to explore space, storytelling, and materiality. This is a space where experimentation meets action, where ideas are transformed into tangible solutions, and where creativity is harnessed to support sustainable, meaningful outcomes for the world we inhabit and pass on to our childrens children. Study travels to gather knowledge from other cultures as inspiration for future development.

We are the ancestors of the future.

Besides the Studio, which is located in the nearby village, the Ocean Weavery comes as well with a remote located house, offering a serene artist-in-residence program set within a retreat-like environment. Being not only the remote weaving workshop to the artist, Karina Siegmund, founder of the studio, here, artists, designers, and craftspeople can immerse themselves in creative practice, renting access to the digital handweaving loom, a unique tool for exploring contemporary weaving processes. Prior weaving experience is required to operate the loom; however, for those looking to expand their skills, there is the possibility to optional top-up lessons to help you navigate its intricacies. The Ocean Weavery House is also home to a creative retreat and workshop space, providing artists a nurturing environment to explore their work at the intersection of tradition, technology, and artistic expression in the meeting of other international creatives. We gather around a wooden longtable, having community dinners and a wonderful place for making new friends.

If you are looking for internship, or want to learn to weave, be an ART / Design apprentice, I encourage you to send a mail with your application, as well a motivation letter, and your Vitae. If you are looking for a new path in your way to go, the Ocean Weavery is a beautiful place to find yourself and have a time out from the usual 9-5 business as usual living, with woofing and work away as possibilities to start again.

For Open Calls, please scroll down to opportunities.

Manifesto

We are the weavers of new worlds

threading together ancient wisdom, earth’s rhythms, and bold creativity.

Inana rises:

Daughter of the sun, bearer of fire and tools, guardian of deep roots and regenerative futures.

Here, art meets activism. Design serves the earth. Life slows down to listen, to heal, to grow.

We are a sanctuary for transformation, a design studio, a lifestyle label, and a retreat house, all woven into one living practice. The weavers dance, a rememberance, of the old ways to pave the future.

We honor the sacred cycle of descent and return, of unlearning colonial stories and rematriating the land, the body, and the spirit.

Through slow making, regenerative craft, and radical connection, we forge paths toward a postcolonial way of living:

grounded, vibrant, and fiercely alive.

Join us in weaving the future, one thread, one story, one breath at a time.

Meet the Founder

BACKGROUND

Being german, living in a remote corner of the world, close to nature, grants a bird’s eye view on urban and global issues. Seeing weaving as one of the original technologies in ancient history, I consciously bring the weaving legacy forward, through our time to the next. Textiles have always been part of our cultural heritage, and always will, functionally and in terms of identity.
My art and design works give transparent insides into all aspects of production, that I transmit by storytelling. A conscious way of living in todays challenging times of climate crises and pandemic, offering an alternative to fast life and consumption model based upon exploitation of human and material resources. Being The Oceanweaver, running the Ocean Weavery Surfhouse, I want to open those platforms to share the weavers dance, an educational approach upon the quest, how to live, where values form the base of all decision making, with a regenerative approach - to give back more than ones takes. Lets meet at the longtable, and around the fire, to craft solutions for todays challenges, to pass on wisdom, cultural identity and a thriving earth.


Contact

For all customer and sales inquiries, please contact:

contact-at-karinasiegmund-dot-com  |  Tel: +47 41 72 44 28

For visit:

The Ocean Weavery Studio & Gallery
Borgundvågvegen 31, Stadlandet,
6750 Norway 

The Ocean Weavery remote Workshop & Retreat house

Vestkappveien 3060, Stadlandet,
6750 Norway 

meetings only upon appointment.

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