The journey to regenerative design
Snakebird Designs grew out of a ceramics practice and a question I couldn't stop asking: what would it mean for my work to do genuine good, rather than just less harm?
That question has taken me out of the studio and toward regenerative design- a way of working that starts not with what I want to make, but with what the species and people of a place actually need. I hold a Masters in Regenerative Design from Central Saint Martins (expected June 2026), and I bring that thinking together with nine years of craft practice and six years of workshop facilitation.
Now I design workshops, habitat structures, and art objects that put people in direct relationship with their local ecology by using the materials of a place, for the benefit of the species that live there. I collaborate with ecologists, councils, land managers, and community organisations to make that work that is rooted in place and in service of the living world.
I'm based in Naarm/Melbourne's north and work across Victoria.
- Masters in Regenerative Design, Central Saint Martins (2026)
- Habitat Conservation and Management Short Course, Darebin Creek Management Committee (2024)
- Bachelor of Communications (Advertising), RMIT University (2016)
- Past student of the School of Clay and Art, Brunswick
- Background in ceramics and workshop facilitation
- Drawing on the Five Pathways to Nature Connectedness framework
- Working with local councils, land managers, and ecological organisations across Victoria
If you’re working on something that needs this kind of thinking or would like to work on something together, I’d love to hear about it!
Vision
For humanity to work together to restore health to planetary systems by working for, with and as nature.
Mission
My mission is to use creativity and craft as tools for reciprocal engagement with the living world. Through education, community engagement, communication, and hands-on material practice, we bring regenerative design principles to life in service of healthier, more biodiverse futures.
Positionality
I acknowledge that I am a non-Indigenous person of settler heritage who lives, creates and teaches on unceded Wurundjeri land. I recognise that the frameworks from which I have learned carry ongoing histories as tools of colonisation, and acknowledge the systems and structures which afford me undue privilege.
I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, gratefully acknowledging their enduring connection to and care for Country. The values of reciprocity and interbeing with the more-than-human world, deeply rooted in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, inform and inspire my practice. I stand for reconciliation and social justice, and am committed to continual listening, reflection and unlearning of harmful dominant paradigms.
While some fibre craft techniques may overlap with First Nations weaving, I do not claim Indigenous Cultural Knowledge. I hope to create a respectful space for learning and reciprocal care for this land, and welcome opportunities to learn how to engage here most respectfully.
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which Snakebird Designs works, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, recognising that sovereignty has not been ceded. I pay my respect to their Elders past and present, and to all First Peoples.
Inclusivity & Accessibility:
Everyone is welcome at Snakebird Designs. I strive to make all workshops and interactions accessible, safe, respectful and enjoyable for participants of all ages, abilities, identities and cultures.
If you have any questions about accessibility or feedback about areas for improvement, please get in touch!