We're proud to annouce the winners of this year's Green Trail award. Five students have been chosen out of a total of sixty nominated by course teams across Fashion, Fashion Communication, Jewellery, Textiles, Material Futures, Biodesign, Narrative Environments, Industrial Design, Product Design, Ceramics, Architecture and Graphic Communication Design.
The Maison/0 Green Trail highlights projects that champion and innovate for nature by our graduating students across design disciplines at Central Saint Martins.
Quoi Alexander
Alona Cohen
Alys Hargreaves
Punxh Hutaphaet
Akhil Krishnan
We're hugely indebted to our talented jury, and would like to extend our thanks to them all.Alexandre Capelli, LVMH Group Environment Deputy Director; Manuela Brini, Director of Creative Talent Acquisition and Development, LVMHCarole Collet, Director Maison/0, Central Saint Martins, UAL;
@quoialexander |MA Regenerative Design | @ma_regenerativedesign
Through hybrid methodologies, seasonal rituals, and experimental materials, this project proposes new models for design education, regenerative fashion, and bioregional futures.
In the mountains and estuaries of the Kunisaki Peninsula, Japan, a new ontology emerges, one that reimagines design as a system of evolving connections. It positions craft as a catalytic force that helps shape both structure and interdependence within living ecosystems. Within this project, this force activates regenerative practices that allow for the making of a shoe assembled with local shichitoui grass, washi from mitsumata, chitosan from shiitake mushrooms, and agar from seaweed.
BA Fashion |@alonanellycohen |@CSM BA Fashion
Alona has developed a collection of clothing and accessories that centers sustainability through the revival of traditional craftsmanship. Drawing from shared artisanal traditions between Jewish, Amazigh and Middle Eastern communities.The collection explores how craft can act as a bridge between cultures—past and present. Each piece is made using 100% natural-based fibers and mostly hand painted, printed or dyed with natural pigments, a deliberate rejection of harmful synthetic materials that dominate the industry.
My project addresses sustainability by centering natural materials and traditional practices that inherently prioritize balance. In response to the harmful effects of synthetic dyes and overproduction, I work primarily with natural dyes and fibers, embracing their limitations as creative opportunities. This approach reduces environmental harm and promotes mindful resource use. Historically, these methods were survival tools and craftsmanship was heritage, passed through generations. Today, I see them as tools for resilience in the face of environmental crisis.
MA Architecture |@alys_e_h |@csm_architecture_march
This work seeks to recalibrate material and water practices towards alternative paradigms of bioregional governance.
The Peak District blanket bog sits as a frayed borderland to the flood-prone city of Sheffield: wetness and dryness is not where it should be. The project investigates wool felt as a strategy to mediate contaminated relations between dry upland peatlands, privatised water infrastructures, and the city edge.
MA Material Futures| @punxh.13| @materialfutures
The project merges CMYK inkjet technology with fungi and bacteria, turning prints into self-decomposing, regenerative mediums.
As a designer, this project expands my role from creating static visuals to fostering a regenerative ecosystem. GROWinK encourages visual communities to swap chemical dyes for living ink, promoting social and environmental regeneration. It challenges the notion that print must be permanent and wasteful, instead turning communication into a regenerative cycle that nourishes the earth. GROWinK is more than ink—it’s a biological interface for sustainability.
MA Industrial Design |@akhilkrishna_jayanth|@csm_maid
This project reinterprets everyday water rituals, revealing the hidden narratives of consumption and consequence.
Bindu is more than a droplet, it is the primordial seed, the point from which all creation unfolds. In Sanskrit cosmology, it symbolizes the source of consciousness, the beginning of form, and the pulse of intention. As a water droplet, it holds the tension between ephemeral presence and eternal origin. A quiet metaphor for renewal, reverence, and the infinite within the minimal.
The Green Trail and its sister award, Maison/0 This Earth, celebrate exceptional nature-positive and thought-provoking graduating student projects, bringing together work that responds to the climate and biodiversity emergencies.
Maison/0 is the Central Saint Martins-LVMH creative platform for regenerative luxury. Our partnership is committed to leveraging the agency of creativity and education to help regenerate our climate and biodiversity and to empower emerging talents to design a better future.