Class of 2024
Ikki Kawanishi, Japan
Danielle Statham, Australia
Francesca Baur, Kent, UK
Charline Lalanne, Paris, France
Bruna Cerasi, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Laura Middlehurst, Margate, UK
Aly Tobin, London, UK
Karoline von Igel, Bali, Indonesia
Hannah Ogahara, London, UK
Class 2024
Ikki Kawanishi, Japan, 35.6764° N, 139.6500° E
PANORAMA, exploring new ecosystems for Textilisation
This project was nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent
Panorama Culture aims to regenerate the biodiversity of Satoyama through global collaboration. Panorama Culture’s approach, called Textilisation, integrates local permaculture into a global context. Panorama Culture uses biochar, made from discarded coniferous and deciduous wood after the completion of a spatial design project, to sequester carbon and improve soil nutrients by burying it in the ground, supporting biodiversity and renewable energy. A prototype biochar fuel cell combines spatial design with ecosystem regeneration, promoting global collaboration and the long-term regeneration of Satoyama’s biodiversity.
Class 2024
Danielle Statham, Australia, 29° 27’ 51.8796’’ S 149° 50’ 42.3888’’ E
Can Paper heal?
Explore a voice that delivers powerful storytelling. A voice that is delivered in unseen words on paper. A paper that is made with healing hands. Paper that evolves from raw cotton fibre. Cotton fibre that is grown in the local area of a once closed paper mill. A mill that sits in the hearts of the female Goomeroi Elders. This is the regeneration of a generation, the sharing of knowledge and the acknowledgement of country.
Class 2024
Francesca Baur, Kent, UK, 51.2787° N, 0.5217° E
Inter/twine Collective- An ecosystem connecting food, fibre and communities
This project was nominated for the Green Trail Awards LVMH Maison/0
Intertwine is a research and education platform committed to reducing fossil fuel dependency by promoting regenerative fibre practices. We are committed to reintegrating waste textiles into our local ecosystem. By sourcing fibres from plants, animals, and waste, we use storytelling to highlight the connections between food, fibre, and clothing. We engage in place-based learning and rediscover traditional textile skills, advocating for responsible textile care and natural decomposition. Through community partnerships and collaborations, we grow dye and fibre plants, promoting biodiversity and healthy soil. Together, we envision a future where textiles are intertwined with nature, nurturing thriving communities and ecosystems.
Class 2024
Charline Lalanne, Paris, France 48.8566° N, 2.3522° E
Office for Planetary Relationships, a new holistic approach to ‘worlding’.
This project was nominated for the Green Trail Awards LVMH Maison/0
The scale of our relationship with the planet begins right at our doorsteps. How much do we truly understand? To navigate Gaia’s intricate balance through species interdependence, the Office for Planetary Relationships offers guidance to collectively explore the consequences of our decisions within the critical zone. Together, we will map our environment’s cycles across time and space to trace the ripple effects. Our worlding process, a holistic nature’s portrait, aims to bring a fourth dimension to new creative narratives and dialogue.
Class 2024
Bruna Cerasi, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 23.5558° S, 46.6396° W
RIZALAB, connecting with roots to co-create ancestral futures
This project was nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent
RIZALAB is a root-like research, curatorial and creative platform originated in Brazil through a participatory method involving local traditional communities’ members, biologists, artists, thinkers and creative practitioners from Southeast of Brazil, Atlantic Forest. By bringing root stories to the centre of conversations, RizaLab aims to keep ancestral wisdom alive and remind us of our common shared ground and the importance of growing roots to build agroforestry mindsets and design desirable futures. RizaLab’s approach innovates by mixing roots wisdom and technologies to ideation methods and creative thinking to provoke decolonial exchanges via different formats such as workshops, talks, experiences as a way of amplifying roots voices. It divides itself in 4 different layers: Cosmologia (Cosmology), taking us to see the world through roots lens, Curadoria (Curation), creating a bridge with art and materials from human and more-than-human roots and allies, Comunidade (Community), building rooted relations through gatherings and sharing, Criação (Creation), providing access to ideation tools inspired by roots technologies, strategies and behaviours that create a bridge for imagining solutions towards a desirable future.
Class 2024
Laura Middlehurst, Margate, UK, 51.3896° N, 1.3868° E
Commoning with The Good Companions: How do you eat yours?
This project was shortlisted & nominated for the Green Trail Awards LVMH Maison/0 and awarded with highly commended
TGC examines the ethics of care, multi-species kinship and future commoning communities by utilising speculative storytelling of localised future food systems and species co-habitation. By exploring how climate change can impact island communities, territories, borders, migration, extinction and cultures, TGC showcases a future system that is ecologically restorative with species and humans sharing both common land and common tide. It develops and fosters new rituals, tools and networks of care to aid in the development of new cultures and adaption to changing climates, creating a resillient local ecosystem of solidarity and kin with the more-than-human.
Class 2024
Aly Tobin, London, UK, 55.6761° N, 12.5683° E
WeGENERATION
When do you persist, adapt, or fundamentally transform? You decide while you play. WeGENERATION is a critical card and web-game designed by Aly Tobin. Players analyse and discuss four possible disruptive scenarios that offer transformation in how we might interact with the fashion industry. The goal of the game is to work together to create radical solutions that fundamentally alter how we view and engage with textiles and dress in these speculative worlds. To begin to have a regenerating fashion industry the entire system needs to be reconsidered and remodelled. New worlds, new opportunities for complete change.
Class 2024
Karoline von Igel, Bali, Indonesia, 8.4095° S, 115.1889° E
Waterthreads
The threads of textile waste intertwined with the currents of environmental degradation. Waterthreads is a campaign committed to the restoration of Bali’s waters. Addressing the critical issue of textile waste, which constitutes 5% of river waste and is predominantly composed of fossil fuel-derived fibers, this campaign highlights the threat to vital ecosystems such as mangrove forests, local communities, and biodiversity. Waterthreads seeks to raise awareness and confront the colonial violence inflicted upon these rivers, advocating for reconnection and a shift in design practices towards tailored solutions in response to the water crisis.
Class 2024
Hannah Ogahara, London, UK 51.5072° N, 0.1276° W
The Symbiotic Neighbourhood
A regenerative design platform that connects local ecosystems and communities through collaboration to revitalise the human-nature relationship in our urban environment. The Symbiotic Neighbourhood is committed to catalysing positive change within neighbourhoods and cities worldwide and foster symbiotic relationships between human, flora, fauna communities to co-create to become thriving and connected communities. Local ecosystems are often overshadowed by human infrastructures, but every neighbourhood relies on the healthy symbiosis of supporting healthy environments. Creating clean soil, air, water, and co-living spaces contribute and invest in the future of the neighbourhood and support connection, collaboration and new learning on how human and nature are intertwined.