Our Ecosystem
A Connected Cultural Learning Ecosystem
Yuniya CIC operates through an interconnected ecosystem that brings together learning, cultural production, digital storytelling and participation rooted in lived experience.
At its core, the work is grounded in community participation and shaped through storytelling, environmental learning, creative practice and systems thinking.
Rather than separating education, culture and production, the ecosystem connects them as part of one continuous learning journey.
The Three Connected Arms
Learning And Participation
Yuniya CIC
Yuniya is the learning and educational anchor of the ecosystem.
Yuniya delivers storytelling-led learning experiences across schools, communities and cultural spaces.
Participants engage through storytelling, reflection and guided creative practice rooted in lived experience.
Through Yuniya, learning can continue into cultural production, enterprise, documentation and future pathways.
Cultural Production, Products And Enterprise
Karatasi Collective
Karatasi Collective is the cultural production arm of the ecosystem.
It focuses on handmade storytelling materials, publishing, paper-based works and participatory cultural production.
It connects storytelling, environmental learning and cultural production through shared creative practice.
Participants also contribute to the creation of cultural outputs, publications and storytelling materials through the wider ecosystem.
Learning becomes physical form.
Digital Storytelling And Learning Experiences
Karatasi Studio
Karatasi Studio is the digital storytelling and creative media arm of the ecosystem.
Karatasi Studio extends storytelling into sound, visual media, digital experiences and ongoing engagement.
Stories, projects and lived experience can continue through digital formats that are accessed, shared and revisited over time.
Karatasi Studio supports storytelling through digital media, visual storytelling, sound, learning experiences and online engagement.
A continuous relationship between learning, making and storytelling.
Yuniya CIC supports learning and participation.
Karatasi Collective supports physical storytelling, products, publishing and cultural production.
Karatasi Studio supports digital storytelling, sound, visual media and ongoing learning experiences.
Together, they allow ideas to move across formats while remaining connected to community, story and environmental learning.