Month: May 2026

I am a London-based sustainable design postgraduate with a background in interior architecture and experience working in finance. I am currently completing my Master’s in Sustainability at Kingston School of Art, where I am exploring how design can create meaningful, responsible, and inclusive spaces. I am passionate about interior and furniture design, materials, food culture, and creating environments that support people and communities. My work is guided by empathy, persistence, and a desire to make a positive social and environmental impact. I am especially interested in socially conscious design that brings together creativity, wellbeing, and sustainability, and I aspire to contribute to a more compassionate and thoughtful built environment through my future work.

Is a product designer whose work explores irony, experimentation, and a distinctive “trashy-comic” aesthetic. Since 2021, he has collaborated with Emiliana Design Studio while developing personal and commissioned projects. His practice spans objects, spaces, video, and conceptual work, combining playful narratives with a critical and socially engaged perspective that seeks to empathize with users.
He designed the trophies for the Peace Journalism Awards of the Catalan Journalists’ Association and has self-published lighting pieces such as “Low-Cost lamps”, “Dissabte” or “Anima(l)”, exhibited in Barcelona and Milan. He graduated in Industrial Design Engineering from Elisava in 2022, and his work has received a Silver ADI-FAD Award and been presented at Milan Design Week and “Museu del Disseny de Barcelona”.

Is a landscape designer based in London, trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and Tsinghua University. Her work explores the intersection of landscape, infrastructure, and public participation, with a focus on how design mediates relationships between human and environmental systems. She has professional experience at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), where she contributed to large-scale international projects, leading landscape design development and coordinating multidisciplinary teams. Her portfolio spans urban public realm, ecological strategies, and speculative design research.Jo’s work has received multiple international awards, including the World Landscape Architecture Student Awards. She is particularly interested in participatory design frameworks and adaptive landscapes that respond to long-term environmental change.

Is a systemic designer and co-founder of BY THE END OF MAY, a Lisbon-based research and design studio exploring how local waste, digital fabrication, biomaterials and craft can support more self-sufficient urban futures. He holds an MA in Design from the University of San Marino and a BA in Cultural Communication from the University of Bologna. His work questions how design can move away from extractive production models towards locally grounded and openly shared practices. Over the past years, his projects have been presented through exhibitions, festivals and public programmes. He previously collaborated with the Polytechnic of Lisbon on Distributed Design activities and has delivered masterclasses for makers, artisans and creatives.

Is a designer and researcher working at the intersection of material cultures, social economies, and system thinking. Her practice investigates how design can function as a symbolic and relational infrastructure, activating alternative models of production grounded in local knowledge.
She engages deeply with traditional techniques and knowledge, translating them into contemporary contexts through research, prototyping, and collaborative production. Across her work, Sara blends conceptual rigor with narrative and poetic sensitivity, approaching design not as aesthetic resolution, but as a political and ontological act capable of reshaping how communities inhabit and sustain their territories.

I am a graphic designer with a background in multimedia and a specialization in packaging design. I enjoy developing new concepts and rethinking existing products to make them clearer, easier to use, and more meaningful. Packaging has become the space where I experiment the most, combining ideas with real, functional solutions. I see design as a constant process of learning and questioning, a way to explore how small changes can improve everyday experiences.

Is a designer and entrepreneur driven by the belief that design can make systems more human. She studied Strategic Design at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, where she developed her approach to tackling complex, real-world problems through systemic thinking.
She is the founder and CEO of meelo Care, a startup reimagining non-pharmacological dementia care. By weaving biographical work into multisensory activation, meelo helps people with dementia strengthen their sense of self and quality of life — while improving communication with loved ones and enabling more personalized, empathetic care for practitioners.
For Elodie, good design starts with listening.

Growing up in Vilobí del Penedès, surrounded by the vineyards and landscapes of Barcelona, I developed an early obsession with how natural light transforms a space. Now, at 23, that fascination has evolved into a professional focus on lighting design — balancing the technical side of brightness with the warmth of a lived-in home. I’ve always been someone who prefers getting my hands dirty. Whether it’s woodworking or exploring traditional Mediterranean crafts, I believe design should feel tactile and grounded. For me, the “Next Gen” of design isn’t just about new tech; it’s about bringing soul back into our environments by honoring raw materials and heritage.