Planetary Self

Your Mom at Arte 2025

Mãe Universal explores maternal wisdom as a living force — one that transcends borders, cultures, and disciplines. Rooted in the ethos of YM – Your Mom, the project frames maternal care as a system of human and planetary sustainability.

 
 

Mãe Universal

An artistic and relational activation by YM – Your Mom at SP-Arte

Curated by Everard Findlay | Advisor to the UNESCO GEM Report

 

Mãe Universal explores maternal wisdom as a living force — one that transcends borders, cultures, and disciplines. Rooted in the ethos of YM – Your Mom, the project frames maternal care as a system of human and planetary sustainability.

This activation invites visitors to experience care not just as sentiment, but as action — through play, conversation, and shared imagination. Interactive environments such as Molly Findlay’s Mrs. Noodle Pillow nests and Daniel Moreno’s ribbon installation create spaces for dialogue between humor and depth, memory and possibility.

At its heart, Mãe Universal aligns with Planetary Self’s core values: that radical empathy and interdependence are pathways to regeneration. That global transformation begins with micro-gestures. And that the wisdom of care — in families, in communities, in ecosystems — is one of the most powerful forces for shaping a better world.

 

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Mãe Universal

An artistic and relational activation by YM – Your Mom at SP-Arte

Curated by Everard Findlay | Advisor to the UNESCO GEM Report

Molly Findlay
Molly Findlay

Molly Findlay is a sculptor, set designer and community activist. For two decades, she has been creating imagery and solving material problems to build products and drive brands. Her commercial clients include Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Google, Estee Lauder, Tiffany, Harry Winston and Samsung, among many others, and her work has been widely published globally. Her sculptural practice gently subverts the day to day experience through form and happenings. She is the founding member of the artist collective Mother of Thousands, a pioneering space for emerging artists and designers.

Findlay is a Founding Trustee of The Museum of the Courageous where she lends her 20+ years of experience to catalyze the courageous movement and design museum user experience.

Everard Findlay
Everard Findlay

Everard Findlay blends branding and social innovation to empower CEOs, heads of state, and thought leaders to invest in a future that benefits citizens, the environment, and society as a whole while building profitability and growth.

Findlay has served on the board of GrowNYC, the Council for the Environment of New York City since 2009 and is currently Communications Chair. He is a founding trustee of The Museum of the Courageous, NeueHouse, tenured board member of Soho House, UNDP Turning Tables, Dartmouth College’s Institute for Cross-engagement, The New York Times’ Friends of TimesTalks Committee and The National Center for Children in Poverty.

 

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