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Julina Vanille Bezold

The Soft Spot is a socially engaged artistic practice founded in 2025 by Julina Vanille Bezold, exploring the intersections of textiles, care, activism, and community-building. It moves between collaborative making, material storytelling, and fiber-based research, questioning notions of ownership, labor, and the commons. Through workshops, public interventions, and experimental formats, The Soft Spot creates spaces for coexistence, sensitivity, and radical forms of collectivity. One of its core projects is a traveling, modular weaving initiative, originally co-founded in 2023 as Reimagining Looms by Julina Vanille Bezold and Samira Vogel. Together, they worked across Palestine, Jordan, Ireland, Egypt, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, collaborating with communities to build The Tapestry of the Commons—a growing collective piece that explores material politics, shared making, and solidarity through fiber. Julina Vanille Bezold (she/her; *1992) is a body designer, artistic researcher, and artist-educator working at the intersection of socially engaged art, queer ecologies, and material politics. Integrating somatics, spirituality, pleasure activism, and design for well-being, her practice embraces a holistic and healing-centered approach to education and creativity. Rather than working within fixed disciplines, she moves fluidly between craft, research, and embodied methodologies, exploring how radical care, slowness, and collective knowledge-sharing can resist extractive and capitalist structures. At 2.Dh5, she invites participants to explore these ideas through tactile engagement, material storytelling, and collective reflection—asking what it means to create, care, and resist together.

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