Becoming Regenerative is a group of academics, researchers and practitioners who examine a number of the conflicts that come with regenerative creativity, including how to adapt creatively to unanticipated occurrences, how to put an idea or prototype into practice while figuring out how to adequately "scale" regenerative efforts. The initiative will further our empirical and theoretical understanding of this rapidly evolving field while generating new avenues for direct encounters with this style of creation, making "creating with/for nature" accessible to the mainstream industry.
Group members
Research students
- Luqing Cao
- Keun-Hee Choi
- Melenie Hecker
- Lena Rissmann
- Molly Simpson
- Lilian Weiermann
For more information, contact b-regen@csm.arts.ac.uk or Dr Tuukka Toivonen, Becoming Regenerative initiator and PI t.toivonen@csm.arts.ac.uk
What the MAIM student researchers are saying about this project
"As a practitioner with experiences more than a decade in the fashion industry, the work on approaches for a restorative environment leads to the research question: how to accelerate wider planetary regenerative transformations in the fashion industry?" - Keun Hee Choi, 2023 cohort
"The opportunity to support the research project at this point in time and in the creative and forward-thinking environment of Central Saint Martins is an exciting prospect. I am keen to explore the possibilities that start-ups and enterprises have to align with nature and to thus create a more sustainable and social future." – Lena Rissmann, 2023 cohort
"I want to focus on the relationship between the fashion industry and our planet, which currently is more of a taking than a giving affair. I am very excited to discover different approaches and capture tangible results with this research group." – Lilian Weiermann, 2023 cohort
"In order to identify longer-term options for the greatest polluters, I think it is critical to transfer regenerative design from an academic to an intersectional and economic context. As a result, I hope that this initiative will change how we interact with nature, impart information, and inspire action." – Melenie Hecker, 2023 cohort
"An early career in brand marketing and communications has exposed me to the systemic structures and underlying narratives of human separation that dominate consumer culture. This has inspired my transition towards facilitating narrative change and transformation which is the focus of my MA dissertation and will hopefully contribute to the infrastructure of this emerging research project." – Molly Simpson, 2022 cohort
"In my previous fashion experience, we used to regard nature as the building material from which we create new products, this act of possessing nature leads to climate change. So I want to change our minds from possessing and obtaining the resources of nature to a new Regenerative thinking, to grow with nature and living systems in the future." - Luqing Cao, 2023 cohort