Cultivating Creativity Rooted with Life's Elements
Coaching, Workshops, Making and Consultancy, weaving together design, technology and Human Nature
Hi, I'm Erica,
Curious, questioning, caring and creative by Nature.
Interdisciplinary Designer, Mechanical Engineer, Artist, Coach and Facilitator. Founder of independent Studio Technical Nature.
Working across an ecosystem of change: corporate, NGO, policy, start-up, education and community.
Bringing a combination of hands-on circular, eco, systems design and engineering experience to the ever evolving Regenerative Design field.
Over the years I’ve learned the importance of working with limits and energy, my own as well as the planet’s. That shapes everything about how I work and what I believe design and business can be.
Design Council, Design for Planet Expert · Fellow RSA . Visiting Professor RAE at GSA ·
Streams of Work
Creativity, coaching and business strategy, combined with design, art, science and wonder for the living world
Here to meet you where you are. Listening, thinking, questioning and creating alongside businesses, teams and individuals, to help uncover, translate and cultivate regenerative intentions into grounded, practical, beautiful design and action
Coaching Cocoon
With a Creative Nature
1:1 Coaching, Mentoring or Strategy sessions for creative companionship for individuals and organisations at any stage of their regenerative journey. From a single grounding and sounding session to ongoing creative partnership or community
Workshops Cultivating
Design and Business with Nature
Workshops, learning journeys and outdoor experiences that explore designing as, in, with and for nature. Seeding creativity, nurturing wellbeing, and guiding better product and business design
Circular EcoDesign Consultancy
Imagining & Forming
Circular, sustainable business and community model design, regenerative, systems thinking consultancy. Packages and consultancy for organisations ready to embody system change for flourishing people and planet
Making and Gathering
Creative Practice & Goods
Creative practice, art, circular goods and curated objects for more considered being and living. Making as inquiry, curating with care and curiosity
Ground · Landscape · Reorientate · Flow
The journey towards better design and business is rarely straight or certain. It may ripple, cycle, pause or speed up, moving in unexpected ways and directions or go deeper beneath the surface. I guide and accompany individuals and organisations through this.
Exploring, weaving and layering ideas across products, business models, ecosystems and creative practice.
DEW, Design Element Wayfinding, is a light guide, map and compass that I use at the heart of my work. It’s emerged overtime from my exploration in what it might be to design for, with, as and in Nature, within limits. Earth’s and my own.
Regenerative Design | EcoDesign | Nature Connection | Coaching | Circular Economy | Biomimicry | Wellbeing | Engineering | Outdoor Facilitation | Workshops
Exploring Being With, As and In Nature. For....
...the business finding its sustinable, circular footing
...the designer seeking ecological depth and meaning making
...the startup building with purpose
...the team ready to think and work differently
...the community making change from the ground up
...the curious caring soul not quite sure where to start
Part of a Wider Ecosystem
Design Council, Design for Planet Expert · Fellow RSA · Visiting Professor with Royal Academy of Engineering at PDE Glasgow School of Art · Outdoor Nature Facilitator, Change in Nature Outdoor Nature Facilitator, Wild Geese Network · Cards for Life Facilitator · Just Ideas Associate · The Growth Experience Alumni · Climate KIC Network Coach · Co-Founder Design Nature CIC · Reading CAN Beyond Waste Working Group Theme Lead · Henley Business School Professional Coaching Certificate student
Alongside my core design focus, part of Studio Technical Nature’s income and time supports tree planting and rewilding initiatives, alongside discounted work with eco-entrepreneurs and pro-bono work with aligned charities, students and community organisations
Read my wider ecological commitments and reciprocity approach
Notes on rewilding design, creativity and business practices. Exploring ways, bridges and connections between nature and technology through the seasons, elements and more-than-human world.
“Every design has a consequence, let’s make it a good one”
Pause, Breathe
Not sure where to start?
I’m here to meet you where you are. Get in touch for a conversation to explore a stream that may feel right for you or your team, or, if a Sounding Session feels like the right first step, you can book directly.
I’m happy to explore whether there’s a fit, or point you towards a potential better place for help.
