27/08/2026
Meet Our Special Guest: INÊS MILAGRES — PORTUGAL
Inês Milagres, Founder & CEO of Quotidiano Integral, is a Portuguese artist, designer, entrepreneur and universalist thinker whose work explores the connections between people, nature, culture, territory, creativity and sustainability.
Trained in Industrial Design, she has developed a diverse body of work that goes far beyond any single material or discipline. Her creative practice embraces food, illustration, textiles, natural materials, local culture, traditional knowledge, community and the rhythms of nature. Her projects are often rooted in the belief that sustainability is not simply an environmental concern, but a way of understanding how we live, create, consume and relate to one another and to the world around us.
Through Quotidiano Integral, Inês brings together creativity, entrepreneurship and a holistic approach to everyday life. Her work has explored the relationship between food and design, nature and culture, place and identity, while creating experiences that reconnect people with local resources, seasonal cycles and forms of collective participation.
Her artistic language is deeply connected to the natural world. Seeds, food, plants, materials, landscapes and the cycles of the seasons are not merely subjects of her work; they become ways of thinking about balance, belonging and the human experience. Her work with h**p and sustainable textiles is therefore part of a much broader philosophy rather than an isolated field of expertise. At CannAzores 2025, she contributed specifically to the discussion on sustainable h**p industries and textiles, bringing this wider perspective into the emerging h**p economy.
Inês represents a vision of sustainability that is creative rather than restrictive, holistic rather than compartmentalised, and deeply human. Her work invites us to reconsider the everyday — the food we eat, the materials we use, the places we inhabit and the relationships we create — as opportunities to build a more harmonious relationship between people and the living world.
For Inês, sustainability is ultimately about balance: between tradition and innovation, human creativity and nature, individual expression and community, and the needs of today and the generations yet to come.
Her work reminds us that creating a more sustainable future does not necessarily begin with grand technological solutions. Sometimes, it begins by looking differently at what is already around us — and rediscovering the value of what we have forgotten.
