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Teodora Bujdei

Central Saint Martins

I am a knit textile designer whose research-led practice explores the intersections of sustainability, material innovation, and narrative. Informed by posthumanist perspectives, my work challenges anthropocentric approaches to design by acknowledging the agency of materials and the interconnectedness of human and non-human systems. Growing up in a rural community, where resourcefulness was a necessity, shaped my sensitivity toward waste and the potential of overlooked materials. This mindset continues to inform my creative process, in which everyday elements are reconsidered as active agents in shaping material meaning and textile language. By combining traditional craft techniques with experimental processes through a slow-making methodology, I aim to develop textiles that are both materially responsible and conceptually reflective, positioning textile practice as a critical space for ecological responsibility and material storytelling.

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Lament of the Forgotten

Category: Interior

Competitions: Home Competition 2025

This project began with a quiet emotion, the sadness I feel when walking through Montrose Park, a place behind my home that I’ve passed through every day for the past five years. I’ve witnessed the park’s full cycle: bloom, decay, and quiet renewal. What moves me most are the overlooked remains; the dead grass and dried weeds that still whisper stories of past beauty. Inspired by this, I created two light sculptures. The first is a cylindrical lamp, built through archival needlework using dead grass, its woven surface casting soft shadows that evoke fading memories of nature. The second is a lamp with weed directly attached to the lamp base, left raw and exposed, a more fragile and honest homage to the wild, forgotten edges of nature. These pieces are original in their use of delicate, perishable materials—materials not often celebrated in design, and their commitment to slow craft. The lamps challenge traditional ideas of luxury and permanence by celebrating fragility and memory. What makes this project last is not just its form, but its emotional presence. It invites people to see beauty in what’s been discarded and to reconnect with the quiet poetry of nature. These lamps are not mass-produced objects—they are love letters to the land, made to be cherished and remembered. Their glow will continue to tell a story: of care, stillness, and the overlooked wonders around us. It will last not just because of its craftsmanship, but because it invites love, through its sincerity and spirit.

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