Rewild your creative practice so that you,
your business & the planet can thrive
Created by Katie Treggiden
Author, journalist and podcaster
Making Design Circular is a membership community and online learning platform for designers, makers and craftspeople who are making imperfect progress towards environmental sustainability.
Become a part of a community that will meet you where you are.
Introducing Making Design Circular
Making Design Circular isn’t just about what you do, it’s about how you think and feel. It brings together designers, artisans, and creatives who share a common goal: to integrate sustainable practices into their work. The platform serves as a meeting point for those who believe in the power of responsible design.
Environmental responsibility as an integral part of design, not an afterthought or another thing for your to-do list, so my approach enables you to invest in yourself, your creativity, your business and the planet, all at the same time.
The framework
The Making Design Circular framework is an innovative methodology created to help you ‘rewild your creative practice’, so that you, your business, and the planet can all thrive.
‘Release’ is about letting go of guilt, duty and perfectionism so you can stop worrying about getting it “right” and instead make decisions that align with your values. ‘Plant’ is about finding meaning and purpose in your environmentalism work through connecting with defiant hope, finding your environmental niche and bringing play back into your practice. And finally, ‘Grow’ gives you the tools and resources you need to make it all happen over the long term.
Courses
Take a course or download a resources created by Katie Treggiden together with guest experts and start making imperfect progress towards your environmental goals.
Community
Join the Making Design Circular membership and find the knowledge, support, and community that will help you to rewild your creative practice so that you can thrive.
Coaching
Rewild yourself and get calm, clear and confident about your purpose-driven creative business. 1:1 nature-informed coaching and mentoring with Katie Treggiden.
The Head, Heart, Hand Approach
The Making Design Circular approach is unique because it combines head, heart and hand skills and most courses include an element of each.
I’ve flagged up which courses lean predominantly into which skills, so you’ll see an icon that tells you whether you’ll be using your brain to think things through (head skills), whether a course is informed by coaching techniques and there’s likely to be some soul searching required (heart skills), or whether you’ll have the opportunity to learn new making techniques (hand skills).
Head
These courses are information-based and you’ll be using your brain to reason things through and apply new knowledge to your creative practice.
Heart
These courses are informed by coaching techniques and will require introspection and soul-searching to find the answers within yourself.
Hand
These courses offer the chance to learn new techniques and skills and to translate all that head and heart knowledge into your making practice.
What would you like to learn?
How To Turn Waste Into Products & Furniture (Masterclass Bundle)
How to Use Fashion Waste & Repair Techniques In Your Work
How to Fund Your Environmental Design Projects
How to Speak the Language of the Circular Economy
How to Talk About Sustainability as a Designer-Maker
We’re not here to waste your time or ours.
That’s why we offer a direct, no-nonsense money-back guarantee.
Our goal? Happy customers and zero regrets.
All Access Membership
- Unlimited access to all courses and resources
- Expert instructors in business, craft and sustainability
- New content every month to help you progress
Cancel anytime with 3 working days notice.
Katie Treggiden in the press...
Forbes
Monocle 24
FT How to Spend It
The Observer
Dezeen
Hole & Corner
House & Garden
Design Milk
Crafts Magazine
ICON
About
Katie Treggiden
Katie Treggiden is a purpose-driven writer and keynote speaker championing a circular approach to design – because Planet Earth needs better stories.
She is currently exploring the question ‘can craft save the world?’ through an emerging body of work that includes her sixth book, Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World (Ludion, 2023), and a podcast, Circular with Katie Treggiden.
With 20 years’ experience in the creative industries, she regularly contributes to publications such as The Guardian, Crafts Magazine, Design Milk, Dezeen and Monocle24. She has launched, edited and published an award-winning design blog and an independent print magazine.
She recently gained a distinction for her Master’s Degree in the History of Design from the University of Oxford. She was the founder and first president of Bloom and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Podcast
Making Design Circular with Katie Treggiden is a podcast exploring the nuances, complexities and mindset shifts we all need to embrace to move towards a more circular and regenerative economy – seen through the lens of craft and design. Most of us know what to do to become more environmentally responsible, it’s the “how to be” part of the conversation that, until now, has been missing. Exploring themes such as perfectionism, values-aligned decision-making, and the role of playful experimentation in solving a very serious problem, Katie’s is a rare and hopeful voice that cuts through the noise.