Web of Us
Web of Us explores the visible and invisible connections that shape our world.
Season One ranged across disciplines - from mycelium and movement to trust-first finance and collective courage. Season Two gets specific, investigating how networks hold under pressure. Think ancient endowment systems, conductorless orchestras, community currencies, feminist funds. Not tidy solutions. Each carries real tradeoffs. Yet they seem to hold.
Hosted by Claire Wathen, Visiting Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Produced by Studio Goldstar.
Essays, frameworks, and field notes at webofus.substack.com.
Have a question, an idea for a future guest, or feedback to share? I’d love to hear from you at Claire@WebOfUs.org.
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Latest Episodes
Giving that outlasts you, with Mohamad Zaoud
For more than 1,400 years, the waqf – a form of Islamic endowment – has channelled private wealth toward public good. Today, Mohamad Zaoud, business owner, brand executive, and former Al Jazeera strategist, is applying that model to philanthrop...
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Reviving what rice replaced, with Helianti Hilman
Indonesia has hundreds of indigenous ingredients, but most of the world has never tasted them. Enter Helianti Hilman, the food entrepreneur kickstarting Indonesia’s homegrown food revival. Leaving her legal career to found Javara in 2008, she c...
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How to lead in the open, with Maryana Iskander
“If you don't know how to be porous as a leader, [...] you're just not gonna get it done” says Maryana Iskander on the Web Of Us podcast. In conversation with Claire Wathen, she shares what started as a “joke” to now being called the “...
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Coming Soon: Web Of Us Season 2
Claire Wathen is back for season two of her podcast, Web of Us. A show exploring the visible and invisible connections that shape our world. In Season Two, 'What Holds?', we’re investigating how networks hold under pressure. Claire exp...
How movement connects our inner and shared worlds, with Alonzo King
“To make this world work, we have to be fanatically positive,” says globally renowned choreographer and founder of LINES Ballet Alonzo King on The Web of Us. In conversation with Claire Wathen, Alonzo shares why movement is life, growing up wit...
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