DESING
DESING
Regenerative Utopia
Design
Regenerative lifestyle design
Landscape design & permaculture
Space design
Scientific design
Culture
Education
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The Studio
Environmental awareness
Skills and solutions
Food scapes
People and practices
Religion & reflections
The Botanical lab
Material science & products
Evolutionary science & illustration
Regenerative systems design
Science
Water
Painting & Sculpture
Art
Ideology & press
Role models
Blog
Philosophy
Transdisciplinary lenses
The Mission is regenerative living systems design, integrating local ecologies and global technologies through collaborations and entrepreneurship.
“My lifetime dream project of building sustainable living communities, remedying current urban challenges based on permaculture design ethics, along with the effort of like-minded people, drives my creations on a daily basis.”
About
Waylon J. D’Souza is a transdisciplinary artist and designer with a research-driven practice, collating principles of education, philosophy, and culture to iterate pan-disciplinary experiments in sustainability science.
He has trained in a matrix of symbiotic disciplines including fine arts, animation, aquaponics, permaculture, and industrial design at various institutes.
His creations advance environmental solutions through materially symbolic and visually compelling works. In an ever-expanding space of experimentation, Waylon’s practice moves into varied mediums, forms of expression, and articulations. It is like a kaleidoscope, where the same elements are reorganized eternally to produce new and exciting manifestations. This produces a conceptual underpinning that allows his work to be recognized and understood.
“ With my passion for science and research and my proclivity towards design and art, I mapped out what I had done over the years and saw the interconnectedness of everything. It led me to contemplate deeper. It helped me understand the economics and biology of waste. Art allowed me to take it further. I began to tell stories, express my research, and find original solutions.”
The Art of Awareness
The installations produced from his research and scientific inquiry have been showcased at Serendipity Arts Festival in 2018 & 19, the Changwon Sculpture Biennale in 2020, Mumbai art room in 2019, and various other galleries/venues. They come together to examine hydrology, the life of water, enabling a collation of different vantages – paleontological, climatological, geo-political, biological, anthropological, and mythical, thus mapping interdependence.
He simultaneously created sets and headgear for the late Wendell Rodrick's collection at Lakme fashion week 2011, performed at a UNESCO site in Azerbaijan 2017, and created symbolic and educational light installations for real estate developers and government museums. Stories of the Himalayan glacial melt, climate change, and jellyfish blooms along with international cultural ties and fossil fuel were interwoven.
Whether it is through gesture, bodily performance, research, or practice, the essential truths that are tied to natural systems weave through the layers of different projects. Cornerstone compositions such as these are the signature of the artist’s underlying philosophy to synthesize poignant environmental commentary with experiential art.
At the Story of light festival 2015 and tahe Seesharp festival 2017, microplastics and detrimental urban lighting are addressed along with upcycling workshops based on circular economies were integrated with his studio practice.
The studio offers social and educative models where he works with the collaboration of a spectrum of human and non-human entities like architects, students, educators, musicians, builders, and crafters from urban to forest systems, to manifest the vision of sustainable futures lifestyle design.
With a scholarship to attend the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 2007, along with graduation from NID 2008, Ahmedabad in industrial design, basic experience in companies like Godrej 2005 and LG electronics, and various other courses in aquaculture and permaculture, Waylon explored biomimicry inspired conceptions to advance water conservation, recycling, and usage.
The designer's syntrophic explorations intersect to develop long-term solutions in landscape architecture with farm to table and waste management models, aquascaping, biomimicry and bioremediation, and upcycling urban detritus into lighting, furniture, and architectural elements, which has been applied in his clients’ commercial & residential projects since 2009.
Solutions to contemporary landscapes
He works as a consultant examining a venture from holistic perspectives with various people and firms from specialized fields to create an integrated design from a structural, economic, aesthetic, cultural and ethical angle.
Using documentation as a tool, he often returns to drawing, photography and painting to express anthropological and contemporary environmental change.
In conjunction with his academics, Waylon documents and researches various habitats. From tributaries to the ocean, natural and manmade communities in the Western Ghats, Gujarat, Kerala and Srilanka, to understand soil science, hydrology and alternative economics.
He collects specimens for regenerative systems design and ecosystem engineering by leveraging the potential of simple organisms such as fungi and algae to create waste management plans and products.
He infused the previous academic practice with his urban afforestation project which has now evolved into ‘The Botanical Lab’ - an art-house by itself.
His culinary explorations lead to assimilation and diversification of global culture with locally diverse and indigenous to invasive ingredients.
He analyzes food economics, harvesting, production, preparation, packaging, transport, consumption, and disposal. From existing centralized Industrial Agriculture, medicine and health to vernacular traditional methods, to emerging new age practices, he interweaves them with landscape architecture and lifestyle design.
For Waylon, medium and material are organically defined by the direction and requirement of an assignment – he concentrates on local and regionally available produce, highlighting their integral qualities and histories, besides practicing ethical resource management.
The aspiration leads to synergy and evolution of a dynamic ever-changing culture mindful of the past, present and future in tandem with speculative sustainable futures.
Clients
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Training
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Collaborators and Contributors
Lina Vincent
Parag mody
Rashmi Krishnan
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Gayathri Purushothaman, Govind Mukundan, Hyacinth Pinto, House of Arra, Elvina Halli, Nupur Dsouza, Anita Raikar, Adwait Singh, Rihab Dias, Sonja Coates, Sapna Sahani, Douglas Gracias, Amit Gaur, Becky Dcosta, Smit Patel, Amey Naik, Winti Faidol .
Services
Co -authoring educational, marketing and sales content ; Landscape and permaculture design ;co-design with interiors, lighting and furniture
Co-research and documentation ; systems and product design ; ecosystem engineering
Scientific illustration and educative infographics
Farm to table experiences ; Recipe development and Alternative food styling ; Craft, culture and cuisine documentation ; Sustainable decor and event co- design.
Creative training, workshops and talks ; Environmental awareness and educative public installations ; Sculpture and painting
Regenerative lifestyle and systems design ; Sustainable community building
Collaborate with us
If you are a scientist, educator, historian, film maker, content creator, entrepreneur, real estate developer, hospitality concierge, designer, architect, curator or an organisation looking for similarly original design solutions or to invest in original and practical work,
please do get in touch!
We are always looking to expand our tribe of creative, conceptual thinkers and managers able to collaborate and work comfortably within a diverse team, we want to hear from you.
The ideal candidate is articulate, motivated and well organised with excellent planning and time management skills. He/ she should feel inspired and challenged to contribute to the spirit and ambition of the studio.
How We Work
As the client, when requesting a new design, please
understand that the process is an artistic and analytical one.
Adjustments may need to be made throughout the process.
Your understanding of this allows us to create something that is artistically beautiful, original, logistically and structurally sound.
We would prefer if you contact us way in advance before the conceptualisation phase of your idea or project. Knowing what the other areas and timelines of the project are help us better comprehend and tune our design processes in tandem with them.