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Explore the perspectives of our MARD researchers in Where Land and Water Meet, a situated research week at the Kilchoan Melfort Trust. What can biodiversity do for designers, and what can designers do for biodiversity? Explore the full project via the link in bio Bringing together voices across ecosystems a shared question emerges _ How can we reframe realities to activate futures through the narratives, scales, and situated realities of place? Sami Kimberley_ Wasteland: where Ecology, Design and Stewardship meet on Even Ground, a design-led framework that facilitates multi-perspective collaboration across disciplines in response to complex place-based ecological and social challenges. Quoï Alexander _ THIRD : Trojan Horse Integrated Regenerative Design, a framework where beauty provides entry, and vestigial re-functioning gives new ecological or cultural roles to materials, crafts, and gestures that have become dormant. Charline Lalanne _ Anywhere and Everywhere: Personal Synthetic Geography, transforming perception of geographical landscapes, systems or processes through the lens of ecological and online data. Through the creation of your own synthetic geography you will be able to participate in a new form of data: one that is situated, consented and cared for, both in the physical and digital world. 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. @maisonzero @ma_regenerativedesign @csm_news @samikimberley @quoialexander @c_charline

Explore the perspectives of our MARD researchers in Where Land and Water Meet, a situated research week at the Kilchoan Melfort Trust. What can biodiversity do for designers, and what can designers do for biodiversity? Explore the full project via the link in bio Bringing together voices across ecosystems a shared question emerges _ How can we foreground collective learning systems and shared observation to build networks of care and collaboration? Lucy Mitchel_ A Framework for Designers and Ecologists to Collaborate using data for Biodiversity Restoration, that swaps product system baselines for ecological assessment baselines to define steps and roles. Ines Quinones Fabregas_ Fieldwork Fictioning: How Anchoring in Relation feels like. A design methodology that explores biodiversity as relational intelligence and the set of relations it creates, as something sensed, embodied, and imagined, and not only measured. Tom Longmate_ Towards Hydrocommunity :  How might Designers Activate Communities in Service to Waterbodies? A set of collaborative multidisciplinary methods to activate collective watershed care and engage communities in democratic stewardship models. 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. @tomlongmate @inesqui @lucymitchell @csm_news @maisonzero @ma_regenerativedesign In loving memory of Tom Longmate, MARD student and friend (1977-2026)

Explore the perspectives of our MARD researchers in Where Land and Water Meet, a situated research week at the Kilchoan Melfort Trust. What can biodiversity do for designers, and what can designers do for biodiversity? Explore the full project via the link in bio Bringing together voices across ecosystems a shared question emerges _ How can local ecologies and material interactions shape new ways of thinking, making, and restoring coastal environments? James Harlow_ The body Learns the Sea: Temporal Commons and Tidal Practice, positions design within ecological time by operationalising a Temporal Commons across the intertidal ecotones and through tidal mapping, material probes, aquaculture, it delivers time‑attentive, place‑based protocols for coastal restoration. Gabriella Rhodes_ Embodied Sediments: Relational Fieldworks for Biodiversity Restoration, centres on the idea that restoration is not solely a scientific task but is also cultural, relational, sensory, and material aligning with pluriversal perspectives that recognise multiple ways of world-making Lesley Roberts_ Becoming Place: Reimagining Wayfinding Practices as Arts-and Ecology based Fieldwork. Becoming Place is a creative response, a method of exploring the generative potentialities threading practice, place, and knowledge creation. 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. @ma_regenerativedesign @csm_news @maisonzero @_rhodesgabriella @jamesharlow02 @culverlesley

We have worked with two communities in Bolivia for the past two years in collaboration with @unesco_mab and @lvmh to pilot the implementation of regenerative design practices in biosphere reserves. This philanthropic project helps women communities develop craft artefacts in a way that supports and restores biodiversity, engage with their cultural heritage and enable them to generate income whilst living in remote locations. We are very proud today to help them launch their first regenerative craft collection. check out their stories @galilea.regenerativa

We have worked with two communities in Bolivia for the past two years in collaboration with @unesco_mab and @lvmh to pilot the implementation of regenerative design practices in biosphere reserves. This philanthropic project helps women communities develop craft artefacts in a way that supports and restores their local biodiversity, engage with their cultural heritage and enable them to generate income whilst living in remote locations. We are very proud today to help them launch their first regenerative craft collection. check out their stories @bista.regenerativa !

We’re proud to announce the 2026 LVMH Scholars at Central Saint Martins: 🟰Johannes Warnke @johanneswarnke | MA Fashion 🟰Olivia Stewart @olivistewart | MA Fashion 🟰Tisya Khanna @tisyakhxnna | BA Fashion Design: Menswear 🟰Tristan Oboura @maison_tsiena | BA Fashion Design: Print This year, the programme has expanded to support students across their full degree and not just their final year. This deeper investment from the start of the students’ journeys will result in greater access, stronger connections and longer lasting impact. Congratulations to our scholars. @maisonzero | @lvmh | @bafcsm | @mafcsm Photography by Angela Tozzi

To celebrate Earth Day, we are pleased to share the Lexicon of Situated Responses, developed as part of the @ma_regenerativedesign field research project Where Land and Water Meet, supported by the Maison/0 Challenge Fund @csm_news . Addressing biodiversity today calls for new modes of interdisciplinary collaboration, approaches that can better account for the complexity of ecosystem interactions, relationships, and impacts. Where Land and Water Meet, a field research project based in Scotland, explored these intersections through regenerative design practice. As an extension of this work, the research group introduces an open-source Lexicon of Situated Responses, freely available for download to all those interested in regenerative design. (see @ma_regenerativedesign for info). This evolving lexicon brings together a selection of key terms developed by MARD researchers. It is intended as a tool for reflection, continuous learning, and practice, an entry point that challenges assumptions and invites new ways of thinking. Rather than a fixed glossary, the lexicon is conceived as an active and ongoing process, helping us recognise that biodiversity operates across interconnected levels. For regenerative designers, engaging with these levels is essential to navigating living systems. The lexicon is structured across three scales: Local Ecologies & Material Interactions, Collective Systems & Situated Knowledge and Paradigm Shift & Reframing Realities Research team: Quoi Alexander, Ines Quinones Fabregas, James Harlow, Sami Kimberley, Charline Lalanne, Tom Longmate, Lucy Mitchell, Gabriella Rhodes, Lesley Roberts, led by Judith Van Den Boom and Dr Barbara Smith.

Thanks to @material.matters_grant.gibson for featuring our recent conversation on the infamous Material Matters Podcast. Carole Collet on the magic of mycelium and regenerative design. DEC 17, 2025 SEASON 20 EPISODE 8 To listen search for Material Matters with Grant Gibson on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and the MM website here: https://lnkd.in/e-ZRSVPw

Join us tomorrow 19 November 1-3pm as we launch our research project in Scotland with our group and partners building Ecosystem Alliance. Join us as we ask: What can design do for biodiversity, and what can design learn from biodiversity? We are launching the Ecosystem Alliance, a platform founded by Barbara Smith and Judith van den Boom, core team of MA Regenerative Design at CSM. This symposium marks the launch of our first activation research project in Scotland, where we joined with a group of students and graduates from our MA Regenerative Design. Biodiversity loss is one of the most pressing challenges of our time, and no single discipline can tackle it alone. Collaboration is essential. Biodiversity doesn’t have a single solution, it asks us to explore new ways of working with the changing dynamics of places, species, and communities, and to collaborate across disciplines. Together, we’ll explore how design and ecology intersect to support biodiversity in meaningful, applied ways. Our research is conducted in partnership with Kilchoan Melfort Trust, a conservation initiative in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, dedicated to restoring biodiversity. Featuring: 🌿 Research group, nine practitioners from different design disciplines and ecosystems 🌿 Kilchoan Melfort Trust, conservation & restoration in Argyll and Bute, Scotland 🌿 Dr. Alex Thomson, Seawilding 🌿 Dr. Alasdair O’Dell, SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science) 🌿 Mátyás Csiky, Open Climate Solutions 🌿 Prof Carole Collet, Director Maison/0, CSM 🌿 Alexandre Capelli, LVMH Group Environment Deputy Director The project is supported by the LVMH Maison/0 Challenge Fund, which aims to develop creative collaborations through student and graduate-led engagement. Connect and collaborate to restore biodiversity 🌿 link Eventbrite in bio @ecosystemalliance @maisonzero @kilchoantrust @barbaramariasmith @greenandbeyond sams @seawilding @capelliparis @lvmh @mschool @csmnews @alasdairodell @openclimatesolutions #ecosystemalliance #biodiversityrestoration #biodiversity

How can designers engage with the regeneration of biodiversity? Join the @maregenerativedesign @csm_news @ecosystemalliance @jtm_csm online symposium on 19th of November. Maison/0 is the platform for regenerative luxury developed by LVMH and Central Saint Martins. Every year we support a project at Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London for students or graduates to explore a theme aligned with the LVMH Life 360 environment strategy. Biodiversity is a key pillar, and this year the @MA Regenerative Design was supported to develop a biodiversity project in Scotland. Join us as we ask: What can design do for biodiversity, and what can biodiversity do for design? Together, we’ll explore how our shared practices can better support the living world. In this online biodiversity symposium, we will introduce our research project, which took place in Scotland. Over the two-hour session, our research group will share presentations, listen to reflections from guest speakers and panel discussion with our partners, all connected by a series of short films showcasing our work. The project and symposium is curated by course leader Judith Van Den Boom and senior lecturer and researcher Barbara Smith. Guests included our alliance partners: _ Team Kilchoan Melfort Trust _ Dr. Alex Thomson from Seawilding _ Dr. Alasdair O’Dell from SAMS _ Mátyás Csiky from Open Climate Solutions _ Carole Collet, Director of Maison/0 at Central Saint Martins _ Alexandre Capelli, LVMH Group Environment Deputy Director https://lnkd.in/e52VJRf4

“Renewing Nature: Enacting Biodesign to Restore Ecosystems” I am delighted to be invited as a keynote speaker to the Circular Strategies Symposium 6: Cultivating Matter Is the future alive? @ioa_buildingconstruction on November 20th-21st, 2025 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. My talk will discuss how a living systems approach to design - articulated via biodesign or regenerative strategies- can stimulate new ways of knowing to inform how we design in the context of our planetary boundaries. https://ow.ly/ZAAP50XtmiW