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I’m a designer interested in the relationship between emerging technology and everyday life. My work combines interface design, visual systems, 3D image-making and speculative thinking to explore how emerging technologies may shape future behaviours, environments and ways of living.

A speculative domestic system that transforms household food waste into biodegradable growth structures for small-scale cultivation.

Part appliance, part infrastructure, the project explores how future homes may treat waste not as something removed from daily life, but as material for ongoing biological production.

A speculative visual system exploring how biological, cultural and environmental data can be made visible through mapping systems.

Using live vaccine and population datasets, the project visualises the UK as a reactive particle-based landscape. Information behaves less like static statistics and more like living matter; shifting, clustering and dispersing over time.