Brackish (formerly Making Design Circular with Katie Treggiden)
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Episodes
Brackish - S6 E16 Bernadette Russell & Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Bernadette Russell, a storyteller, author and passionate tree planter whose work invites us to pay closer attention...
Brackish - S6 E15 Stefanie Cheong & It Could Be Worse
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger Warning: We discuss the sudden loss of a loved one. If this is something you are experiencing right now or have a sensitivity towards, please ...
Brackish - S6 E14: Emmi Salonen & What I learnt from getting in cold water everyday for a month
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Emmi Salonen, a Finnish graphic designer, creative director and educator, about creative wellbeing, burnout recover...
Brackish - S6 E13: Kerry Tottingham & How to spot a tomboy, all grown up
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Kerry Tottingham, a social change designer and Strategic Lead of A Brilliant Thing CIC. Kerry’s work sits at the ...
Brackish - S6 E12: Helen Bowkett & Hireth
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Helen Bowkett, a jack-of-all-trades craftswoman, Cornish Hedging Trainer, co-founder of the Cornwall Rural Educatio...
Brackish - S6 E11: Sarah Hakewill & Still
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Sarah Hakewill, a Coastal Coach, Culture & Change Strategist, and Londoner turned seaside dweller, about the power ...
Brackish - S6 E10: Lucy Beckley & Early
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Lucy Beckley, a writer, poet, and creative writing facilitator based in Cornwall, about creativity, motherhood, and...
Brackish - S6 E9: Sas Petherick & Blackout Poem #5
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Sas Petherick, a self-belief coach, writer, speaker, and podcast host whose work explores the connection between se...
Brackish - S6 E8: Sophie Austin & Blackout Poem #8
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Sophie Austin, a multidisciplinary director, writer and producer, about how storytelling can become an act of regen...
Brackish - S6 E7 Alex Dunkley & Blackberry Jelly October 22
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Alex Dunkley - a writer, musician, and independent funeral celebrant – about creativity, courage, and the quiet p...
Brackish - S6 E6 Juliet Bennett & Yes, after Adrian Mitchell
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie speaks with Juliet Bennett, to explore how wild swimming, coaching, and nature combine to create powerful, transformative exper...
Brackish - S6 E5 Amy Wilson & The Fish
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie Treggiden speaks with Amy Wilson. Amy is an artistic and adventurous soul, wielding the epic powers of creativity daily at her ...
Brackish - S6 E4 Kirsty Tanner & The Kitchen Windowsill
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie Treggiden speaks with Kirsty Tanner, a Scottish multi-disciplinary artist, designer and maker, living in Liverpool. She runs ...
Brackish - S6 E3 Joanne Lamb & Trying
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie Treggiden speaks with Joanne Lamb, an Irish artist based in London, who creates delicate woven vessels inspired by nature and t...
Brackish - S6 E2 Agnes Becker & The Cormorant
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Brackish, Katie speaks with Agnes Becker, artist, science communicator, and creator of We Are Stardust, about bridging the gap betw...
Brackish - S6 E1 Joeli & The Crumb
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 encounte...
In Conversation with... Elle Bower-Johnston
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Elle Bower Johnston. Elle (she/they) is a body witch. Their work is the alchemisation of breathwork, somatic, and res...
In Conversation with... Rosie Murphy
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Rosie Murphy. Rosie is a consummate communicator and connector.She is just one of a broad ecosystem of architectural w...
In Conversation with ... Jo Casey
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
**This episode was originally an Instagram Live, so at the point of going live on the podcast, the rest challenge we talk about has already happened –...
In Conversation with...Tamu Thomas, part 2
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie continues last week’s conversation with Tamu Thomas a renowned transformational life coach, dedicated to guiding women toward...
In Conversation with...Tamu Thomas
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Tamu Thomas a renowned transformational life coach and the author of "Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic P...
In Conversation With...Lucy Hawthorne
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Lucy Hawthorne. Lucy is a campaigner at heart and Founder of Climate Play. Through play-based training and facilitatio...
In Conversation With...Ella Wiles and Andres Roberts
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Ella Wiles and Andres Roberts from The Bio-Leadership Project. The Bio-Leadership Project’s mission is to change the...
Walk don’t run: The 5-stage path to sustainability
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie digs into one part of her Making Design Circular framework, the methodology that underpins everything she does. She talks about...
In Conversation With...Tom Curran
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Tom Curran, a World Leading Expert on Perfectionism. With an eye on politics, economics, and society, he takes a cult...
Exploring Broken: Mending and repair in a throwaway world
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Katie is doing something a little different.As you may have heard her mentioned in the previous episode, her latest book, Broken: Mending an...
In conversation with... Minnie Moll, Design Council
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Minnie Moll, Chief Executive at the Design Council. Minnie spent years in innovation, design, advertising and brand co...
Laura Eigel
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie is joined by Laura Eigel PhD, the founder of The Catch Group, a leadership coaching firm accelerating women into the C-suite, a...
Define
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks about Define, another element of the Making Design Circular framework, this is all about working out your niche, your un...
Ray Dodd
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks to Ray Dodd a Money Coach who helps those who have traditionally been excluded from making money, to make life-changing a...
Believe
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie explores another of the pillars of the making design circular framework – Believe. The idea that we need to bring about chan...
Liberate
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Katie talks about perfectionism, about:Liberating yourself from perfectionism, the second part of the first pillar of the MDC framewo...
Matt Hocking
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[Trigger Warning: Matt mentions female genital mutilation (FMG) in this episode, so listener discretion is advised.] In this episode, Katie talks wit...
Absolve
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, an...
Sarah Fox
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Making Design Circular: The Framework
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re kicking off with Katie guiding us through her Making Design Circular Framework, all based around the goal to “rewild your creative practice,...
TOAST Renewal: a panel discussion
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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? ...
Tom of Holland
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Lauren Chang
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 tod...
Ekta Kaul
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 disc...
Caitlin DeSilvey
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 v...
Justin South
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Janet Gunter
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Hans Tan, Tiffany Loy & Hunn Wai
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 epis...
Bridget Harvey
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the differences between repair, restoration and conservation? Is maintenance also repair? And how are these processes viewed along gender lin...
Aya Haidar
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’m talking to Aya Haidar. As a self-described 'mother, artist, and humanitarian,' her creative practice focuses on found and recycled objects, thro...
Daniel Charny
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re talking to Daniel Charny, a creative director, curator and educator with an inquiring mind and an entrepreneurial streak. Alo...
Celia Pym
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ite...
Chris Miller
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 indust...
Christopher Raeburn
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the ninth episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden talks to Christopher Ræburn, founder and creative director of ethical fashion label RÆBURN, about...
Lauren MacDonald
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the eighth episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden talks to artist, designer and director of textiles studio, Working Cloth, Lauren MacDonald, about ...
Yinka Ilori
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Nig...
Nina Tolstrup
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the sixth episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden talks to co-founder of Studiomama, Nina Tolstrup about the impact her Scandinavian childhood had on...
Tristram Stuart
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
07–11 September 2020 is Zero Waste Week, and with this year’s focus on food, who better to have as our guest on the fifth episode of Series 01 tha...
Ander Zabala
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of Zero Waste Week next week, the fourth episode of Series 01 is a conversation between Katie Treggiden and ‘Zero Waste Warrior’ Ander Zabal...
Seetal Solanki
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden is in conversation with designer, author and educator Seetal Solanki. They talk about the embodied ...
Lucy Siegle
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of Series 01, Katie Treggiden chats to ethical journalist and broadcaster, Lucy Siegle, about the trip to India that changed her...
Hugo Tagholm
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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Trailer
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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