About DB
The Laboratory
Devir Bordado is born from the conviction that there are forms of knowledge that do not fit in writing alone. They emerge from the encounter between body, matter, memory and time.
It is not a brand, nor a studio, nor a blog. It is an authorial and independent laboratory for research, creation and documentation. It exists to investigate how making, and especially the act of embroidering, produces knowledge, memory and transformation.
The project arises from the need to create a territory of inquiry that exists outside traditional academic structures, yet in deep dialogue with them. A place where knowledge produced by the hands can converse with the rigor of scientific knowledge, and where research does not close in on itself, but circulates openly and accessibly.
Our mission is to investigate, document and share the relationships between making, memory and transformation. Our vision is to consolidate a reference space for those who seek to understand manual practices, material culture and the many ways of producing meaning through matter.
The Symbol
The Devir Bordado symbol does not illustrate an object. It materializes a principle.
In its form, we find three elements: an orb, a central point and a line that crosses it. The orb represents the sphere of experience, the territory where something dwells. The central point is the presence that remains. The line, in turn, is the thread, which symbolically stems from the culture around Akai Ito, but here it does not join two individuals: it crosses them.
This crossing is fundamental. It represents the relationship that is not outside the individual, but takes part in their constitution. Every relationship that crosses us leaves marks and transforms us.
In Japanese legend, Akai Ito is translated as the red thread of fate that invisibly joins two people from the moment of their birth.
Thus, the symbol expresses the first principle of the laboratory: all transformation is relational. There is a presence, there is a territory, and there are relationships that cross them, producing movement.
The Founder
Devir Bordado is led by Iara Lima, librarian, information scientist and embroiderer.
Iara’s trajectory is marked by transitions. From health to administration, until she found in Information Science and in manual practices her territory of inquiry. It was through embroidery that these different areas of knowledge found a point of convergence: the perception that manual making is also a legitimate form of knowledge production.
Today, as an independent researcher, Iara dedicates herself to investigating the relationships between memory, material culture and information. Her work has already resulted in academic publications, exhibitions and the development of her own documentation methodologies.
Devir Bordado is the result of this search: a place to document processes, share discoveries and create spaces of inquiry beyond the walls of universities.
