I'm a collaborative designer focused on creating sustainable futures through understanding complex problems and co-creating new experiences, products and impact ventures.
I freelance, teach at GSA, support the team at Andthen and chair the board for Inclusive Surfing Scotland.
Eating meat-free meals, switching to a green energy provider or riding a bike to work can earn you ECOs which you can spend in a new sustainable marketplace to buy ecological experiences, services and goods. This is a new way to track, measure and reward sustainability so that now you can do good and get paid.
The Hub Collective is a community-powered learning and sharing platform that strengthens innovation and entrepreneurship. Members are entrepreneurs, trainers, facilitators, coaches, enablers, practitioners, hub-makers and community-conveners who believe in the power of the collective to grow together.
Plastic Beach Party collects, shreds, designs and moulds plastic waste into brand new products on the island of Aruba. We see a waste-free future where materials are valued and ecosystems are safe from trash that is instead utilised in a circular economy. We create recycled locally valuable products, research the impacts of plastic waste, and provide guidance for plastic free products.
Nara was the first capital city of Japan and also means Happy in Gaelic. We aim to create food that is good for our bellies and our biosphere, making the world a little bit happier with every mouthful. I work alongside live cultures and ferments to transform humble Scottish ingredients into something tasty.
The report shares insights into market trends, costs, and the challenges SMEs face in carbon reporting. It aims to help businesses navigate carbon reporting and support their transition to net zero. It includes extensive research, covering over 270 carbon reporting solutions as well as in depth results of surveys and interviews of SMEs and solution providers.
Scaling Impact
Advanced Research Centre, Glasgow, UK.
January 14th 2023
Symbiotic Futures
Glasgow School of Art, Online.
October 11th 2021
Workplace of the future
Bloc Brewery Living Lab Series, Online.
October 8th 2020
The future of design
Ghana Design Network, Online.
September 16th 2020
Making a sustainable economy the "new normal"
Economia Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
June 25th 2020
Designing futures and living in them
Speculative Futures Meetup, Glasgow, UK.
February 13th 2020
Less talk, more action; How we really change
ChangeNOW International Summit, Paris, France.
January 30th 2020
Balancing our economy and ecology
World forum for Responsible Economics, Lille, France.
October 15th 2019
A Sustainable currency for our Spaceship Earth
Waterkant Festival, Kiel, Germany.
June 14th 2019
UX Design for sustainable systems
Permaculture Symposium, Forres, UK.
June 10th 2019
The first 1000 days of building a product
Good Festival Summit, lausanne, Switzerland.
May 15th 2019
Doing more good with less
Innofrugal Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
May 7th 2019
Rebalancing our economy for people and planet
Balance Unbalance Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
19th September 2018
Gamification of our economy
Border Sessions, The Hague, Netherlands.
28th June 2017
Sustainable systems
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
21st October 2016