I am a multidisciplinary design strategist and researcher with seven years of experience in the built environment, turning research on climate, material circularity, and emerging technology into regenerative spaces for all living things that depend on them.
I am a multidisciplinary design strategist and researcher with seven years of experience in the built environment, turning research on climate, material circularity, and emerging technology into regenerative spaces for all living things that depend on them.
REGENERATIVE DESIGNAfterlives: Propositions for a Regenerative Future
2026
Perak, Malaysia
Stakeholder Interviews
Ethnographic Research
Data Visualization
Environmental Storytelling
Mixed-Media Installation
This project takes into account ground fieldwork and conversations with smallholder communities and grassroots agroforestry practitioners working this land differently and translates that research into a speculative object system (a field manual, reimagined latex-collection equipment, ecological visualizations) that makes the case for what regenerative use of this land could look like.
This repair manual argues for a new way of evaluating abandoned land and encouraging grassroots stewardship.
Images Courtesy of A Little Wild
From Systems of Extraction
The move from an extractive to a sustainable system is a first step. It addresses the negative externalities of a broken system and makes it more resilient, but doesn’t treat underlying foundational issues at their core .
Framework adapted from ReGen’s Regenerative Manifesto
To Systems of Abundance
A regenerative system produces outputs that go beyond positive externalities and returns them as inputs. Each cycle rebuilds the conditions for the next, raising the system’s capacity over time. Regeneration works on root causes instead of symptoms to realign our current extractive paradigms.
Images Courtesy of A Little Wild
Draw Ecosystems Not Borders Nothing exists in isolation. Think in flows, not fences. Map the relationships, the spillovers, things at the edge.
Acknowledge Plural EcologiesMore than one thing can exist together and at the same time. Difference can be a condition for resilience.
Measure Growth DifferentlyReconsider standard measures. Question what other forms of value can build alternative economies of support.
Respect Planetary Boundaries Nothing is without limits. Recognizing them is the first step to working within them.
Take Care of Things Both Big & Small Climate traverses all scales. Tending to the small things can often lead to the big things.
Listen to All Forms of KnowledgeExpertise is everywhere. Building collaborative partnerships is essential. Seek out the people closest to the problem.
Everything is Useful There is no such thing as waste. Think in cycles, not lines.
Think Through Soil The ground is real and land is tangible. Even degraded soil holds possibility for renewal.
Use what You’ve GotBe resourceful, look around and within before looking elsewhere.
Build Alliances Work across disciplines and hierarchies, change is hard alone.
Tools are like words, they mediate relationships between the person who uses them and the living world they act within. So use them thoughtfully!
What could this land support in a hundred years if we measured it by the number of species it nurtured?
What could these plantations become if we designed their next conversion to restore the land's ecologies instead?
What if 420,000 hectares of plantation land were left to regenerate, how much carbon can it draw down in a century?
The abandoned plantation is a site of emerging life rather than as empty land
Choreographing an atmospheric experience that moves from extraction to future possibilities. Where the historical plantation displayed efficiency as its primary virtue, this project reframes one hectare of an abandoned plantation as a living archive of care, interdependence, and metabolic consequence. This project proposes various tools of engagement that unfold across three scales, planetary, forest, tree, each reorienting the visitor's relationship to rubber's monoculture legacy and the possibility of its transformation.