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At the end of the MA Regenerative Design students graduate with a place-based regenerative design project that is activated in collaboration with human and more-than-human communities, and deliver a design research portfolio containing their bioregional, contextual, ethical, ecological and design processes, a critical report, a  film and presentation. Below is only a fragment of the final developed work.


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 of 2025
Quoi Alexander, Japan
Bonnie Carr, UK
Susanna-Mei Casuncad, UK
Mark Hester, UK
Lucy Mitchell, UK
Maki Obara, US
Sherry Perrault, Canada
Ines Quinones Fabregas, Spain
Kristen Robb, Ireland
Marcell Csillag, Hungary
Olga Glagoleva, Russia
Charlie Whinney, UK
Tom Whiteley, UK



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Class 2025
Quoi Alexander, JP
35.6764° N, 139.6500° E

BeingCraft, keystone ontologies of the Kunasaki Peninsula


This project was nominated for the Green Trail Awards LVMH Maison/0


In the mountains and estuaries of the Kunisaki Peninsula, Japan, a new ontology emerges, one that reimagines design as a system of evolving connections. It positions craft as a catalytic force that helps shape both structure and interdependence within living ecosystems.

In collaboration with elders, farmers, craftspeople, and non-human partners, the project functions both as documentation and as transformation, showing craft as a keystone for rethinking how we live, make, and relate. Through hybrid methodologies, seasonal rituals, and experimental materials, the work proposes new models for design education, regenerative fashion, and bioregional futures.


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Class 2025
Bonnie Carr, UK
51.5072° N, 0.1276° W


Reaching Fashion’s Symbiocene

This project was nominated for the Green Trail Awards LVMH Maison/0

Design for decomposition and radical regenerative solutions to Fashion end-of-Life. Can near-future Fashion become nutrients for soil and food growth? - neutralising clothing waste for Next-Gen Fashion. 

With non-toxic material innovation set to accelerate substantially by 2030, we have an opportunity to create symbiotic systems which allow us to design, manufacture, wear and regenerate Fashion with local ‘textile reincarnation’ front of mind.




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Class 2025 
Susanna-Mei Casuncad, UK
51.0153° N, 3.1068° W


The Apprenticeship in Localness



There are multiple causes in Western ways of living that are leading to breakdowns in kinning with biodiversity in locality. Robert Pyle(1993) calls this ‘the extinction of experience’. The Apprentice in Localness is designed to utilise methodologies and pedagogies that serve as an access point to our localness. Access to our localness is crucial to imbuing a sense of kinning and understanding of the biodiversity within it. 

Craft, when connected to place through apprenticeship, is a tacit learning methodology that is used to connect humans to biodiversity in locality; to understand localness. Designing for biodiversity in locality will help activate regeneration more broadly. It will reframe how we move through the world and how we care for wider biodiversity.


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Class 2025 
Mark Hester, UK
50.9699° N, 0.4160° W


re:Source


This project was nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent


re:SOURCE explores a regenerative future where nutrients from human urine are re-valorised into useful products rather than being flushed away. 

At the heart of the project is a Bioreactor that has been designed to grow an edible superfood called Spirulina using urine.  re:SOURCE invites people to explore their own relationship with the nutrient cycle by asking them to consider how they feel about food grown with urine. 

Would you eat Spirulina grown with your own pee? How about if the urine came from the person standing beside you? These ideas were explored in collaboration with members of the PlusX Innovation Hub in Brighton. In addition to researching notions of social acceptance, the system design required to implement urine recycling at scale was also explored.


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Class 2025
Lucy Mitchell, UK
52.1951° N, 0.1313° E


From the Fens, 
with the Fens, 
for the Fens.




This project was nominated for the Graduate Awards




Paludiculture is the practice of farming on rewetted peat, with an elevated water table closer to the ground’s surface. It has the potential to reduce the degradation of peat soils and CO2 emissions whilst still cultivating the land and supporting fen biodiversity. There are currently no commercial paludicultural sites in the UK, but it presents an opportunity to rethink the way we interact with land in the Cambridgeshire Fens.

‘From the Fens, With the Fens, For the Fens’ uses paper artefacts made from potential paludicultural crops to tell playful stories of interconnection and changing values, whilst demonstrating the potential commercial properties of these novel crops.
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Class 2025
Maki Obara, US
40.7128° N, 74.0060° W


The C Cosmology



The C Cosmology is a Regenerative Design initiative rooted in the cycle of reciprocity, facilitating the paradigm shift towards earth-centred thinking. 

Guided by the teachings of cannabis L. sativa—a plant colonised and criminalised despite sustaining civilisations and air, soil, water for over 15,000 years—we reconnect what has been severed: humans and nature, inner and outer worlds, personal healing and collective liberation. We call this practice Inner-Regeneration. Because to thrive on this planet requires that we unlearn the toxic ways, and remember how to be human again—together, as a species that is part of the biodiversity. 


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Class 2025
Sherry Perrault, CA
49.8954° N, 97.1385° W


Prairie Knowledge Holders



Prairie Knowledge Holders is an initiative to build a Prairie ecosystem of educators, Knowledge Keepers, ecologists and artists to promote the idea of rethinking how we view the Prairies by seeing it as a multi-dimensional, regenerative city full of knowledge.

We seek to ask, can we reframe passing on generational wealth as passing on generational biodiversity wealth? Where generational extends to include both the human and the more-than-human communities and wealth goes beyond the financial, focusing instead on offering gifts that ensure the health of ecosystems exchanging in mutually beneficial acts of reciprocity.

We learn from the Prairies that diversity helps make healthy lands and bodies so we should incorporate these ways of thinking in our cities and towns with the aim of building ecological roads by gifting seed, sharing knowledge and bringing prairie species across urban borders to shared lands.
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Class 2025
Ines Quinones Fabregas, ES
40.4167° N, 3.7033° W


Lab for Endemic Practices



This project was nominated for the Green Trail Awards LVMH Maison/0

Lab for Endemic Practices is a multidisciplinary platform that reimagines design through the lens of hyper-locality, using territory as key. Endemic refers to something confined to a specific geographic area, carrying unique social, ecological, and cultural characteristics; this is the scale at which we can act more effectively preserving biodiversity, local knowledge and cultural heritage.

We operate at the intersection of ecology, speculative design, living systems, and hands-on creation. Our work envisions alternative futures that challenge conventional paradigms and foster regenerative possibilities. Through practical making, we translate these concepts into tangible interventions, crafting solutions that are both imaginative and grounded in ecological realities.
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Class 2025
Kristen Robb, IE
53.7798° N, 7.3055° W


The Worthy Earth Rangers Worthy Earth Rangers is a community-based environmental activism group dedicated to creating positive change within our local biosphere in County Down, Northern Ireland. The project aims to combat the ‘problem’ of overabundant or invasive plant species within rewilding sites by ethically removing the plants and utilising them to produce natural dyes. These plant species tend to harm local biodiversity, food webs, and nutrient cycling.  

The mission of Worthy Earth Rangers is to create reciprocity between human and non-human neighbours. By collaborating with non-human neighbours in an informed, creative and productive way, we foster care and connection. 

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Class 2025
Marcell Csillag, HU
47.1625° N, 19.5033° E


Fleece, Flora & Fauna





This project was nominated for the Graduate Awards

 
Hungary’s landscape is characterised by a wealth of diverse grassland habitats that support significant biodiversity and distinctive ecosystems. For centuries, traditional pastoral practices and extensive livestock farming have adapted to these landscapes, fostering a balanced coexistence between human- and more-than-human communities. 

Fleece, Flora & Fauna addresses the vital role of ancestral pastoral knowledge systems in shaping and preserving local landscapes through the lens of fibres. By exploring the critical issue of underutilized autochthonous wool in Hungary, the project seeks to reveal local capacities and opportunities for synergies to process the fibre in place. 

A key focus is to revive and reinvent wool industry through research, design thinking and new modes of production fostering place-based collaborations that promote innovative approaches and preserve traditional practices.
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Class 2025
Olga Glagoleva, RU
55.7646° N, 37.6056° E


Light Sufficiency

Can invasiveness as a form of life be transformed in the biosphere into opportunities? Can I as a regenerative designer change the narrative around it? Light sufficiency allows us to see how to turn invasive species into a positive force of restoring relations and into a subject of negotiations. 

Light Sufficiency is a project that blends ecological awareness, material innovation, and social transformation. The Festival of Hope is a performative act created by a community of caring, curious co-creators working in the field of biodiversity restoration. Through partnerships with scientists and artists, Hogweed has been reimagined as a resource for new applications — producing paper, yarn, vodka, and native glass flowers—shifting the narrative from despair to possibility.


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Class 2025
Charlie Whinney, UK
54.3739° N, 2.9376° W


Science for Generation Regeneration

This project explores ‘Education as a Regenerative Practice’.  This project reframes statutory National Curriculum content for KS 1-4 into fun and visual narrative sessions introducing pupils to a Living Systems view of the world. These free resources or 1-hour sessions are non-empirical, presenting science as a ‘Big Beautiful Story’.  The intention is that long-term net regeneration can be achieved by this project by incremental paradigm changes in the new generation which this project could help with.  

This project will be part of the Windermere Science Festival outreach for schools in 2026. The background for this work has been the development of an academic tool called ‘Reductive Lenses’ which allows students to see trends between different aspects of history and society today - and how these relate or reduce to ‘Regeneration OR Degeneration’.
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Class 2025
Tom Whiteley, UK
51.3781° N, 2.3597° W


Your Human World

Your Human World explores the deep interconnectedness of water and aims to educate viewers in whole systems and holistic thinking.

Using the human body as a metaphor, this series of illustrations draws parallels between natural systems and the systems within your body.

Water is more than just a substance—it is the essence of life, woven into all natural systems and I see it as a lens through which we can better understand the interdependence of life, nature, and ourselves.

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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. 
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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.full length film



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/0Intertwine 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.full length film


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.full length film



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.full length film



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. full length film



Class 2024
Aly Tobin, London, UK, 55.6761° N, 12.5683° E


WeGENERATIONWhen 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. 

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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. full length film





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.  full length film

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