About us
Reweaver Studios partners with local custodians to inspire flourishing biodiversity, economies, and human well-being.
For generations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP&LCs) have safeguarded the world’s ecosystems, guided by worldviews rooted in balance between people and nature. Today, science affirms what they have always known: these communities are the most effective stewards of life on Earth. Key to this are principles such as Buen Vivir (“Living Well”) which embody this wisdom, placing harmony with nature at the heart of a good life.
From this foundation emerges bioculture and the recognition that nature and human culture are inseparably linked. Bioculture highlights the essential role of Indigenous and traditional knowledge in protecting ecosystems, while offering a different story of abundance, valuing all forms of wealth present in a landscape including the living, social, cultural, intellectual, experiential, and financial.
Since the earliest cave paintings, art has been a way for people to reflect what makes their place unique such as its landscapes, species, stories, and myths. Art becomes a mirror, revealing the richness of a place while opening new ways of seeing and celebrating it. At Reweaver Studios, we draw from this tradition, using art and storytelling to embody stories of place, and connecting Indigenous Knowledge holders with broader audiences, especially young people.
In today’s era of interwoven crises—biodiversity loss, climate change, social inequality and technological overload—approaches grounded in Living Well and biocultural celebration open new pathways. These approaches can revitalise knowledge and cultural practices, strengthen community bonds, foster regenerative economies, and honour the deep connections between biodiversity, culture, and human well-being.
Inspired by the African weaver bird, Reweaver Studios gathers the threads of a distinct landscapes to create Stories of Place, weaving nests of possibility where thriving futures can emerge.
About the founder
Dimitri Selibas founded Reweaver Studios after more than a decade working in human rights, development and science journalism. Covering global environmental issues as a journalist for outlets including the BBC, Mongabay, Science, and The Guardian, his reporting spanned land rights, ancestral knowledge, climate finance, and the role of environmental defenders, with a strong focus on the Amazon and the crucial stewardship by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Living in Colombia for five years, he was deeply influenced by the worldview of Buen Vivir (“Living Well”), which centres harmony between people and nature as the basis of collective wellbeing.
These experiences— from the forests of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, to the deserts of Namibia’s Kalahari and rolling smallholder farmlands of Mexico and South Africa— revealed to him how Buen Vivir provides an alternative framework to extractivism and a means to break down the funding siloes between climate, biodiversity, and development. Returning to South Africa, Dimitri saw an opportunity to reapply these lessons and Reweaver Studios was born.
