Designing for Life Affirmation is an emerging practice I have developed, moving beyond Human-Centred Design by dissolving the notion of a human “centre.”
Instead, it affirms life at its core, challenging traditional sustainability concepts and embracing interconnected, reciprocal relationships within ecosystems.
Creating Collaborative Futures: Collective Decision-making for the Energy Transition – was run in collaboration with the Collective Intelligence team at NESTA, the UK’s innovation agency, and focused on exploring the future of sustainable energy.
How can a typical rain jacket and its surrounding system be redesigned in a more sustainable way?
With a focus on circular material loops and community practice, I redesigned a typical rain
jacket to challenge our ideas of sustainable
wearables in material, construction, usage, and
afterlife.
A design proposal for the perfume brand Early Modern.
Exploring olfactory landscapes and the experiences and stories we connect with them.
A project exploring bacteria for textile dyes.
Everyday bag, made originally as a graduation gift for a brilliant friend.
A shirt inspired by the warmth, comfort, and calm of feathers, berries, and the Milky Way in the night sky.
A Life Affirming take on Kånken Classic, Kånken Breath is a Living Artefact that, through the photosynthetic microalgae printed on the hemp fabric, is able to purify air as it moves through the world.
How can the iconic Kånken backpack become not only circular in its material use, but through this circularity be regenerative?
Using the iconic Kånken backpack as an entry point for designed artefacts as part of systemic change, this project focuses on redesigning the Kånken to not only fit into circular material loops, but by doing so be regenerative.
Teaching people how to speak the language of mental health, I Speak Mental Health consists of an accessible self help journal based on research and psychotherapy, alongside a platform to publish texts.
Looking into the properties and waste cycle of a
material not often considered, I explored human
hair and Chiengora – dog wool. Human hair shown here.
This project focused on how the intentions we as
designers inscribe in our work manifest in the objects we produce.
A chair seat made entirely from mycelium.
Part of an exploration of mycelium's qualities.
A bag made for travelling, adventure, and everyday life.
This bag was the final project at my fashion design preparatory school.
A bag made for travelling, adventure, and everyday life.
This bag was the final project at my fashion design preparatory school.
A crocheted beanie made for a lovely nibling.
Denmark. 2025