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Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie Treggiden)

Katie Treggiden

Welcome to this new iteration of my podcast, which was called Making Design Circular and now has the same name as my Substack, Brackish. Brackish is a term used to describe water that is a mixture of saltwater and freshwater, for example, where a river meets the sea. I first encountered it sitting in a boat in just such water and it immediately became one of my favourite words. I am fascinated by intersections, liminal and littoral spaces, overlaps and interconnections, and I want to use this

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All Episodes

00:15:55

Absolve

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2023/02/08

In this episode, Katie talks about the idea of absolving yourself from guilt. The climate crisis is not your fault, but it is your responsibility, and you have an incredible opportunity to bring about change. Katie talks about:The idea of absolving yourself of the guilt that comes with the climate crisisHow the energy industry has not only contributed the vast majority of the carbon in the atmosphere, but has also worked really hard to curb regulations and undermine public understanding of climate

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00:56:19

Sarah Fox

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2023/02/01

In this episode, Katie talks with Sarah Fox a coach and mentor helping organisations and individuals who are motivated to do good and do well, being drivers of positive social change. Sarah’s mission is to help people who care about the world to live a life of fulfilment, a life that is truly well lived, meaningful, purposeful and creative.We discuss:Sarah’s strive to always do good and her journey with ‘kindness’What is means to be good, not just to the natural world but to ourselves.Sarah’s values

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00:26:57

Making Design Circular: The Framework

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2023/02/01

We’re kicking off with Katie guiding us through her Making Design Circular Framework, all based around the goal to “rewild your creative practice, so that you, your business, and the planet can thrive”, and you can find the image Katie promised HERE. (It turns out you can’t add images directly to show-notes!) We discuss:The 3 distinct areas of the framework, Release, Plant and GrowAbsolving yourself from guilt about the climate crisis and the things you were doing right or wrong when it comes to

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01:01:13

TOAST Renewal: a panel discussion

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/08/24

Do we always need to mend? How can mending help to nudge us towards significant behaviour shifts? What are the materials innovations that might help? Are there self-healing materials – or even self-destructing materials?In this bonus episode, I’m leading a panel discussion with TOAST, including amazing insights from Seetal Solanki, Tom van Deijnen, Celia Pym and Bonnie Kemske. We discuss:- The art of kintsugi and what it means within Japanese culture.- The fine line between repairing invented holes

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00:49:51

Tom of Holland

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/08/17

Is there a trade-off between affordability and disposability? Can we go back to a mindset of mending and repair, without pricing ourselves out? How do we overcome the objections of time, money and skillset to get more people involved in this movement? On today’s episode, I’m talking to Tom van Deijnen – a self-taught textiles practitioner, founder of The Visible Mending Programme, and a volunteer at the Brighton Repair Café. He says that he likes ‘doing things that take forever’ because that slow

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00:55:48

Lauren Chang

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/08/10

How does conservation differ from repair? How is it similar? How have the tenets and ideas of best practice with conservation changed over time?On today’s episode, I’m talking to Lauren Chang, a textile specialist, who spins, dyes, weaves, and writes about textiles on her website interstitial-spaces.com. She holds a B.A. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University and an MA in Textile Conservation from the Textile Conservation Centre in the United Kingdom. Lauren worked as a textile

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00:49:33

Ekta Kaul

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/08/03

Can mending and repair be used as self care? How can the traditions we’ve studied impact our current actions towards sustainability? Are we too disconnected from our past? What drives the culture of mending? On today’s episode, I’m talking to Ekta Kaul, an award-winning London based artist. Her artistic practice is focused on creating narrative maps that explore places, history and belonging through stitch. A pared back aesthetic coupled with a considered use of graphic marks and lines form the core

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00:50:00

Caitlin DeSilvey

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/07/20

Do we only repair the things that we cherish? Is there a place for visible mending in our built environment as well as our clothes? Can a repair add value to the object that is mended? And do we always need to intervene with repair – or is 'curated decay' sometimes a better option? On today’s episode, I’m talking to Caitlin DeSilvey, a geographer whose research explores the cultural significance of material change and transformation, with a particular focus on heritage contexts. She has worked with

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00:34:01

Justin South

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/07/13

Is repair and restoration limited to the things we own? Can it be applied to other facets of our life? How is repair correlated to poverty, and can that change for the betterment of our planet? How is community related to all of this?On today’s episode, I’m talking to Justin South, a 32-year-old bisexual fashion student. Four years ago, Justin went into rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and has been in recovery ever since. During that time, he has worked with several charities that support

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00:52:30

Janet Gunter

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/07/06

Do we really have the right to repair the things we own? How can broken items be given new value? Is repair only to be used when an object is spoiled or broken? Can repair be aspirational, playful and creative? On today’s episode, I’m talking to Janet Gunter, the co-founder and outreach lead at The Restart Project and a leading Right to Repair campaigner. The Restart Project is a social enterprise that aims to fix our broken relationship with electronics. We discuss:- How attitudes to repair differ

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00:36:53

Hans Tan, Tiffany Loy & Hunn Wai

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/06/29

How can broken items be given new value? Is repair only to be used when an object is spoiled or broken? Can repair be aspirational? On today’s episode, I’m talking to Hans Tan, Tiffany Loy and Hunn Wai from the R for Repair exhibition, which ran from 13 January until 6 February 2021 at the National Design Centre, Singapore. The exhibition, curated by Tan, shone a timely spotlight on global waste by showing how broken or discarded items can be given new value.We discuss:- R for Repair, the exhibition

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00:42:06

Bridget Harvey

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/06/22

What are the differences between repair, restoration and conservation? Is maintenance also repair? And how are these processes viewed along gender lines? On today’s episode, I’m talking to Bridget Harvey, an artist who uses making to ask critical questions, generate new understanding and add meaning through craft. Investigating processes and concepts through making: she asks what we make, how we make it, and why that matters. We discuss:- What we make, how we make it, and why it matters.- How

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00:37:03

Aya Haidar

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/06/15

I’m talking to Aya Haidar. As a self-described 'mother, artist, and humanitarian,' her creative practice focuses on found and recycled objects, through which she explores themes of loss, migration and memory. She has studied art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, The Slade School of Art – part of University College London – and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, before undertaking a Masters in Non-Governmental Organisations and Development at the London School of Economics and Politics

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00:58:06

Daniel Charny

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/06/08

In this episode, we’re talking to Daniel Charny, a creative director, curator and educator with an inquiring mind and an entrepreneurial streak. Alongside Dee Halligan, he is co-founder and director of Forth, a creative studio, where he works with clients from Google to the Design Museum. Describing themselves as ‘part R&D Lab and part consultancy, small, connected and serious about finding better responses to our changing world,’ their most recent initiative is a large scale European research

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01:03:22

Celia Pym

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/06/01

In this episode, we’re talking to Celia Pym, an artist living and working in London. Working with garments that belong to individuals as well as items in museum archives, she has extensive experience with the spectrum and stories of damage, from small moth holes to larger accidents with fire. Her interests concern the evidence of damage, and how repair draws attention to the places where garments and cloth wear down and grow thin. In clothing, this is often to do with use and how the body moves. Pym

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00:59:31

Chris Miller

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/05/24

This season is all about repair and in this episode, we’re talking to Chris Miller the co-founder of Skinflint – Europe’s leading vintage industrial lighting website. Skinflint scours locations across the world to source historic vintage lights, which are restored with a gentle touch by UK-based lighting experts, ensuring their stories shine through. We discuss:- How a life-changing experience in Sri Lanka set his life on a new path- How his company, Skinflint, got its start- The interesting places

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00:51:48

Jay Blades

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2021/05/24

Welcome to Season 2 of Circular with Katie Treggiden. We’re kicking things off with Jay Blades, a modern furniture restorer, upcycler and eco designer who is passionate about sustainability and community. In this episode we discuss his history with furniture restoration, the importance of investing in the next generation of creators, why helping people you may never meet truly matters and lots more. Jay Blades is now best known for presenting the BBC’s Money for Nothing, The Repair Shop and most

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00:46:14

Christopher Raeburn

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2020/10/06

In the ninth episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden talks to Christopher Ræburn, founder and creative director of ethical fashion label RÆBURN, about how his discovery of unworn 1950s jackets – still in their original packaging – as a student led to a career exploring reuse, surplus and repair, and Christopher reveals that making nothing at all for his latest collection, RÆFOUND, is an intentional provocation for the industry. As recommended by Metro, The Week, Wallpaper and FastCompany.

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00:26:58

Lauren MacDonald

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2020/09/29

In the eighth episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden talks to artist, designer and director of textiles studio, Working Cloth, Lauren MacDonald, about dying clothes using food waste. Lauren explains why she finds the term ‘natural dye’ problematic, how a box of penises put her off studying art (yes, you read that right!), the magic tricks she performs with red cabbage, and why avocados will turn your clothes pink not green. As recommended by Metro, The Week, Wallpaper and FastCompany.

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00:38:10

Yinka Ilori

Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie... ·

2020/09/22

In the seventh episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden chats to London-based designer Yinka Ilori about his early exposure to reuse and upcycling in Nigeria, his penchant for collecting discarded chairs off the street and bringing them home on the bus, the first time he created a collection he could truly see himself in, his most meaningful collaboration to date, and why he now has legacy and reuse written into his contract. As recommended by Metro, The Week, Wallpaper and FastCompany.

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