Éwà Poranga

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Éwà Poranga is a multicultural fashion education school that sews the diverse knowledge and skills of two originating countries in fashion with a teaching body of Afro-descendant and African masters, indigenous Brazilians and Latin Americans, with the aim of promoting a more sustainable fashion production, enabling a learning experience that connects ancestry and modernity, valuing Brazilian cultural identities through ecodesign.

With the union of theoretical remote teaching and practical experiences, we form people/professionals committed to the promotion of systemic change aiming at positive impacts on society. As end-of-course work, the innovation ecosystems are developed, where new forms of production and sale are grown using their own methodology in traditional communities, and this allows the expansion of two knowledge acquired at school to the environments, generating income, solving problems and promoting bem viver practices.

Over the course of 2 years, the innovation ecosystems were carried out with indigenous women, one with refugee seamstresses from Bolivia, the Sartasañani and another with the Marakanã multi-ethnic village. In the year of 2023 the Forest Colors project of the Huni Kuin and Ashaninka ethnic groups developed, in the state of Acre located in the Amazon.

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