Quoi Alexander (JP)
Inés Quiñones Fábregas (ESP)
James Harlow (UK)
Sami Kimberley (UK)
Charline Lalanne (FR)
Tom Longmate (NOR)
Lucy Mitchell (UK)
Gabriella Rhodes (UK)
Lesley Roberts (US)
Project led by Dr Barbara Smith, Lecturer in Ecology, MA Regenerative Design and Judith van den Boom, Course Leader MA Regenerative Design
An MA Regenerative Design project in partnership with Kilchoan Melfort Trust, and knowledge partners Scottish Association for Marine Science and Seawilding in Scotland, United Kingdom.
The project is supported by the LVMH Maison/0 Challenge Fund 2025 to bring together ecologists and designers to activate place-based biodiversity restoration, research, and collaboration. For LVMH, biodiversity is a key strategic pillar as part of their LIFE 360 Environment strategy. The challenge fund supports collaborations with creative practitioners to foster new relationships between nature restoration and creative endeavours.
Research group responses and research
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The Scotland expedition research developed how collaborative approaches can unlock the potential of biodiversity restoration, demonstrating that this challenge requires new methodologies and an evolution in design practice rather than a single solution.
The research group proposed work ranges from: frameworks for designers and ecologists to work together using ecological data, inspired by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) processes, reframing data-collection and design interventions, rethinking citizen-science initiatives and local geographical understanding and assessments to rethinking how regenerative design practices can operate as part of ecosystem and support new functions and ways of seeing the world.
Quoi Alexander _ THIRD : Trojan Horse Integrated Regenerative Design
Inés Quiñones Fábregas _ FIELDWORK FICTIONING: How Anchoring in Relation feels like
James Harlow _ The Body Learns the Sea: Temporal Commons and Tidal Practice
Sami Kimberley _ WASTELAND: where Ecology, Design and Stewardship meet on even ground.
Charline Lalanne _ Anywhere and Everywhere: Personal Synthetic Geography
Tom Longmate _ Towards Hydrocommunity : How might Designers Activate Communities in Service to Waterbodies?
Lucy Mitchell _ A Framework for Designers and Ecologists to Collaborate using data for Biodiversity Restoration
Gabriella Rhodes _ Embodied Sediments: Relational Fieldwork for Biodiversity Restoration
Lesley Roberts _ Becoming Place: Re-Imagining Wayfinding Practices as Arts- and Ecology-Based Fieldwork