Lucy Mitchell
MA Regenerative DEsign
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Sustainable Design / Design Research / Industrial Design
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lucy Mitchell
First Name: Lucy
Last Name: Mitchell
Specialisms: Sustainable Design / Design Research / Industrial Design
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My Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: MA Regenerative DEsign
About
I am a regenerative designer, seeking to use design as a means of bringing about system and landscape change for the benefit of ecosystems, species and places. I get excited about material culture, local traditions and how we can make in ways that embrace natural systems.
I have a background in industrial design, previously working as a design consultant on innovation and sustainability projects.
From the Fens, With the Fens, For the Fens
Paludiculture is the practice of farming on rewetted peat, with an elevated water table closer to the ground’s surface. It has the potential to reduce the degradation of peat soils and CO₂ emissions whilst still cultivating the land and supporting fen biodiversity. There are currently no commercial paludicultural sites in the UK, but it presents an opportunity to rethink the way we interact with land in the Cambridgeshire Fens. ‘From the Fens, With the Fens, For the Fens’ uses paper artefacts made from potential paludicultural crops to tell playful stories of interconnection and changing values, whilst demonstrating the potential commercial properties of these novel crops.
Competitions
Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025
“Making Connections” is a response to the brief “The Land: New Relational Paradigms”, looking at land through a culture/nature lens and using making as a way of connecting to the land. The response has since developed into a research methodology, becoming a form of intra-action where making informs learning and learning informs making. Crafted artefacts make tangible local and generational knowledge, using knowledge from the past to inform design for the future.