# Project Description

Wigy Ramadhan

10033911@network.rca.ac.uk

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About

Wigy is a transdisciplinary design researcher who explores how we can build more harmonious relationships with technology and materials. His work integrates design, engineering, science, and the humanities , bridging natural and artificial systems through research, making, and collaboration.

Trained as a product designer, Wigy has five years of experience as a Design Researcher at various tech startups in industries such as e-commerce, circular economy, and fintech. He has developed a generalist toolkit that includes product design, design engineering, system design, and material innovation .

Wigy’s approach is a research-led process: he immerses himself in the field, engages with people, and experiments with prototypes. By absorbing the atmosphere and grounding his thinking in the systems, materials, and contexts he works with, he develops responsibly made solutions .

Wigy is also a founding member of the Scenius Industries collective and has developed futurerealitydesign , a community-based design platform.

Selected projects:

Birkenwerk: A material exploration project using birch bark, focusing on its regenerative value and inherent properties as a sustainable alternative to synthetic materials. The project uses a bodyboard as a case study, leveraging the natural water resistance and buoyancy of birch bark to provoke critical reflection on conventional epoxy and foam-based boards, which are difficult to recycle.

OWNE: A sustainable system design project aimed at developing a fully circular couch, rethinking the product lifecycle to enable complete reuse, repair, and recycling.

Scenius Industries: An exploration into novel manufacturing techniques for bioplastics, blending craft, science, and design to prototype sustainable material futures production.

Co-hivetation: A citizen-science kit designed to raise awareness of rewilding and pollinator health. It includes modular planters and camera traps to enable community-based pollinator monitoring and habitat support.

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