Family quilts are pieced together with heatmap and rainfall data, folkloric iconography, and children’s drawings. Don’t the best quilts feel so cozy and protective because the squares are sourced from a diversity of textiles, colors, and memories? One small piece of fabric could never make something large or warm enough for all.
Extending this idea to the anticipatory action story, the quilt demonstrates how the best protection is made from many forms of knowledge. In southern Africa, small cooperatives are being reimagined in this way: webs of support and wisdom spanning all the corners of communities, displacing the Western-knowledge hierarchy. This becomes a kind of resilience, one that can wrap around all of us.
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