Who we are
The Ark of Us is a living record of human presence in a time of great crossing. It began as a podcast and is growing into a cultural vessel — gathering voices, stories, and sensibilities that carry the texture of the analog soul into the digital century. We are not preserving nostalgia; we are safeguarding the subtle technologies of being human: attention, memory, touch, imagination, and the mysterious intelligence that lives in and between people when they truly meet.
Over the next decade, The Ark of Us will expand into an archive, a publishing imprint, films, gatherings, and a global map of lived experience — a continuum where artists, scientists, elders, and everyday philosophers become stewards of organic intelligence and Generation Human. This is a place where the future can still recognize its ancestry, and where the question “What did it feel like to be human?” has an answer spoken in human breath.
the founder
Zofia Hausman is a cultural visionary and steward of human-scale wisdom in technological times. With three decades of work spanning music, grassroots activism, holistic health, and community ritual, she has dedicated her life to protecting what she calls organic intelligence — the knowing carried in bodies, relationships, and the natural world. Born between cultures and disciplines, she moves with equal fluency through science, myth, and lived experience, translating complex futures into intimate human language.
As the founder of The Ark of Us, Zofia brings the sensibility of an archivist and the heart of a ceremonialist. She believes that the most radical act of the coming century will be to remain fully human - and that our stories, spoken aloud, are the technology that will guide us home.
Creative Partner
Sheena Israel serves as a conduit for the articulation of the living transmission which is life. Her mastery is found not in a medium, but in a devotion to the art of creation itself—an intuitive weaving of multi-dimensional patterns that span lifetimes, and lineages, allowing them to be seen and woven anew.
Exploring life, death, and the vast spaces between offers an overflowing well of wisdom—a recognition that consciousness is not a sequence, but a field always and everywhere available to commune with. Sheena brings to The Ark Of Us, a vibrational openness that allows t.he field to be braided into resonant reflections and structures, that do not contain but breathe, hum, and become. Believing that when structure is informed by presence, and after all the remembering, a harmonic field is formed—an ever-present garden where new flowers bloom from breath’s womb—the heart.