MAKE CONSCIOUS art and design processes are expressions and applications of AAPI cultural practices known as gong fu 功夫 in Chinese, and sadhana in Sanskrit/Tibetan. (साधना/ སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་) In their original forms, they were not separate since a master of one is the master of all due to the unification of qi or prana. What appears to be multidisciplinary to the current product-driven Western industrial complex is from an Ancient Wisdom process-perspective simply a joyful expression of a unified consciousness working in harmony with nature.

Make Conscious celebrates and integrates AAPI ancestral paradigms of transformation into contemporary design process from a place of sincere daily practice and ancestral healing. Many of our ancestral lineages have been destroyed through colonization and by embracing ancestral processes of analysis, listening, divination, and ritual we are able to celebrate our shared global cultural heritage not from an anthropological standpoint or from a historic preservation standpoint but from a practical, embodied, and Asia Futurist perspective.

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Make Conscious collaborates with the genius loci (spirit of place). Our listening and healing work brings us into spaces of connection and listening on the ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples all around the world. We honor and acknowledge the ancestral lands that we live upon and are in the ongoing process of decolonizing all levels of consciousness. We are based in California but our work takes us all over the world.

We stand in solidarity with Indigenous land protection and sovereignty movements around the world and acknowledge the deep levels of compounded BIPOC trauma embedded and woven into Indigenous genocide and trauma. Our work is committed to addressing intergenerational land-based trauma and addressing environmental and social justice initiatives.

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