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Merging Spirit, Identity, & Design with Silas Munro: Wisdom from the Moon Studio Community

Episode Summary

What if your multidimensionality is your greatest creative power? In this intimate conversation, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener connects with artist, educator, and designer Silas Munro about what it means to live and create as a whole, multidimensional person. From honoring grief to challenging design norms, Silas shares how integrating identity, spirituality, and activism has transformed his work and life.

Episode Notes

What if your multidimensionality is your greatest creative power?

In this intimate conversation, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener connects with artist, educator, and designer Silas Munro about what it means to live and create as a whole, multidimensional person. From honoring grief to challenging design norms, Silas shares how integrating identity, spirituality, and activism has transformed his work and life.

You’ll hear:

• Why embracing all your parts—artist, mystic, educator, activist—is a radical act
• What poetic research is and how it can guide your creative process
• How Silas turns surfing into a spiritual practice and grief into creative fuel
• The power of community and co-creation within Moon Studio spaces
• How Clear Channels helped Silas merge purpose with visibility

This is a deeply moving episode about multidimensionality, poetic research, and the magic that unfolds when we stop trying to fit into boxes and start showing up as our full selves

More on Silas Munro:

Silas Munro is a designer, artist, writer, researcher, curator, surfer and descendant of the Banyole people of Eastern Uganda. He is the founder of the design studio Polymode based in Los Angeles and Raleigh that works with clients across cultural spheres. Commissions and collaborations include: The New York Times Magazine, MIT Press, Nike, Airbnb, the Brooklyn Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

https://www.polymode.studio/

https://bipocdesignhistory.com/

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