S1/E17: #This Messy Mobile Life - How to Embrace a Life in Transit with Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore

Show notes

How to navigate a multicultural, multilingual and multi-mobile lifestyle with ease? Nowadays we all live scattered all over the world, we might have families almost everywhere. In this episode, Frauke and Marie-Christine explore the complexities of modern mobile families.

Culture Chat Frauke and Marie-Christine welcome Pakistan-born Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore, a writer, researcher and expatriate family specialist who grew up and lived in ten countries. Her husband is German/Italian and together they have raised their children in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore has created the MOLA tool to help global families design and show their stories to the world. In South America, a mola is a shirt made from intricately stitched layers of patterns and cloth. Worn with pride, it represents who you are - inside and out. Mariam presents a mola as the perfect metaphor for globally mobile families living between cultures, countries, languages, nationalities, identities and homes, who find their story hard to articulate.

References

Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore (2019): This Messy Mobile Life: How a Mola Can Help Globally Mobile Families Create a Life by Design. Springtime Books

Connect with Mariam https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamottimofiore

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