James Harlow is an artist and spatial designer whose practice asks how design might respond to landscapes that cannot be restored. Working between material research and documentation, he develops seaweed-based alternatives to plastic alongside archival imaging, cyanotype and narrative text, recording shorelines in active erosion. His work questions the institutional impulse towards sanitised preservation and proposes approaches to design grounded in approximation, care and bearing witness to loss.

Sami Kimberley is a creative director and regenerative designer working at the intersection of ecology, material and human culture. Her practice, eco-cultural design, starts from the idea that cultures are inseparable from the ecosystems they emerge from and positions design as a mediator within depleted social and ecological systems. Her material work includes Clam-Crete, a composite made from the shells of the invasive Golden Clam in the Thames, developed as an alternative to sand extraction.

Louise McArthur is a flax-centred material artist making site-responsive textile works shaped by the ecological and temporal conditions of landscape. Growing, processing, dyeing and hand-constructing raw flax, she develops material-led methods in which the landscape acts as a teacher, shaping both process and outcome. Trained in clothing design, she now works with fibre to explore ecological entanglement, material behaviour and cultural restoration.

Sarah Muir-Smith is an artist, facilitator and designer exploring how local craft can be in service of the living world. Working with weeds, green waste and abundant plant material, she uses basketry to make habitat structures for native fauna, in collaboration with ecologists, landcare groups and local communities. She designs and runs workshops on human–nature connectedness through craft, treating making as a way of caring for shared places.

Gabriella Rhodes is a material-led artist whose practice treats clay-rich sediments as active participants in living systems rather than inert resources. Through fieldwork, site-responsive making and contemporary reinterpretations of vernacular earth-building, she explores the relationships between material, geology, ecology and human history. Her recent work reads the eroding glacial cliffs of the Llŷn Peninsula through sculpture, moving image and a digital field guide.

Lesley Roberts is a strategist, researcher and social practice artist working between culture, material and possibility. She connects place-based narrative and embodied knowledge to imagine other futures, and builds links between art, craft, industry and academia. She publishes and speaks on material innovation, regenerative textile systems and the creative economy. Her recent work, A Haptic Atlas, spans a website, a felted not-coat, a curriculum and film.