DESIGN PORTFOLIO
A selection of work that explores a range of projects that I have worked on throughout my career.
UAL GRADUATE SHOWCASE
My work was chosen through a jury process from over 100 student submissions and staff nominations from across all UAL colleges for the 'People and Planet' collection curated by the Climate Emergency Network.
"The UAL Climate Emergency Network is a growing community of interest and concern, creative practice and action. It is open to all, overseen collaboratively by both students and staff from across UAL.
This collection features the work of students from across UAL whose practices have a strong affiliation with the climate and ecological crisis, the current global health pandemic, social justice, or work at the intersection of these major issues of our time."
SCEAUX GARDENS ESTATE: COMMUNITY WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
Plastic pollution is a large-scale issue that the world faces in today’s society. As designers, we have a big impact on adapting and influencing our own and others use of materials, within the built environment. By promoting the use of biodegradable, sustainable and recycled materials, we can effectively help reduce the pile-up of waste and associated consequences. I am interested in how plastic is found and used within a domestic space and how we can help change the future of plastic usage in how we use what already exists, and how we can limit its further production by educating younger generations. My dissertation began to explore how this has developed over the year and a potential future scenario of more sustainable lifestyle.
For this project I wanted to involve the community as a whole in practical and informative skills based tasks, that would explore the repurposing of materials on a large scale, whilst still looking closely at the impacts domesticity has on how these materials have previously been used and how they can be transformed. People can share their knowledge and discuss ways in which the community can collectively expand these small-scale changes out of the workshop and into their personal and professional lives. By educating people in a playful and engaging way, the hope is that they will take that knowledge and educate more people.
There is already progress in the battle against plastic pollution, individuals make big waves when they move together and it is us, the designers, who can help influence them to do so. There is not one singular solution, so it is important that we are considerate of how we design and are aware of what has come before, so that these aspects can influence how and what we design for our future.
