Team

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    Heather Ring, Creative Director

    Heather Ring is a landscape architect practicing in London and is the Founder and Creative Director of Wayward Plants. In 2010, she was commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to design and produce the Union Street Urban Orchard for the London… Continue reading →

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    Thomas Kendall

    Thomas Kendall is an Architectural designer and artist from Cornwall. He graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture where his work focused on translating stories into tectonic space and human/spatial interactions. He now resides at the Royal College of Art… Continue reading →

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    Jarred Henderson

    Jarred is a designer and urban grower. His passion and understanding of food, combined with a background in architectural design has led to a career managing farmers markets, community gardens, food growing projects and composting systems. Jarred joined Wayward Plants… Continue reading →

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    Rachel Mikulsky

    Rachel started with us as an intern from Central St Martins (studying MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments), and quickly became an integral part of the team as Volunteer Coordinator and Events Coordinator at the Urban Physic Garden. Using her… Continue reading →

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    Claire Healy

    Claire completed her MA in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins in 2011 having previously taken her BA in Arts, Design & Environment. Her work is centred around the practices of spatial design, curation and experience design.… Continue reading →

  • Writers and Storytellers

    Wayward Plants creates botanical narratives, bringing together people through spaces and stories, and so we love working with writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, thinkers, researchers and storytellers. Here are a few of our collaborators – if you’ve got a story to… Continue reading →

  • Designers, Artists and Makers

    We love collaborating. We work with architects, landscape architects, graphic designers, illustrators, furniture designers, carpenters, installation artists, interaction designers, lighting designers and more. Here is a small selection of the many artists and designers that have worked with Wayward Plants.… Continue reading →

  • Urban Growers and Guerrilla Gardeners

    Productive spaces, food growing, and the imaginative potential of derelict sites and orphaned land are at the heart of our projects. Our first garden in London was a guerrilla garden on Old Street, which acted as a testing ground for… Continue reading →

  • Community Volunteers

    Our projects engage communities in the design and build of spaces. We’ve worked with hundreds of volunteers of diverse backgrounds and levels of experience. Volunteers gain skills in carpentry, gardening and more, while bringing their own ideas and skills to… Continue reading →

  • Advisors and Supporters

    We are grateful to our advisory board, which includes Richard Reynolds (Guerrillagardening.org), Stephen Escritt (Publica, Whitechapel Gallery), Jane Mason (Virtuous Bread), Bryan Boyer (Helsinki Design Lab) and Abbas Nokhasteh (Openvizor), as well as everyone who has provided support and guidance… Continue reading →