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Amelia Harrison

Birmingham City University

My designs reflect my passion for sustainable interiors, holistic wellbeing, and the quiet power of nature. As a designer, I believe that the spaces we live in should nourish us, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. My work centres around creating interiors that promote wellness, encourage mindfulness, and foster a deep connection to the natural world. Through thoughtful material choices, organic textures, and biophilic design principles, I aim to craft environments that feel grounded, restorative, and beautifully alive.

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The Gentle Divide

Category: Interior

Competitions: Home Competition 2025

The Gentle Divide is a sensory spatial installation that reimagines interior boundaries through biodegradable materials and a wellness-driven philosophy. Created as a tapestry-style room divider, the piece is crafted from agar sheets, an eco-friendly, gelatinous material derived from seaweed, infused with plant-based dyes, herbs, and textural inclusions. Rather than acting as a fixed architectural element, The Gentle Divide offers a soft, semi-translucent presence that separates space without severing connection, creating a meditative threshold that encourages stillness, presence, and gentle transition. This installation is rooted in sustainability and ritual. The agar material is not only non-toxic and biodegradable but also impermanent; it naturally degrades over time, embodying cycles of change, decay, and renewal. Embedded herbs, such as lavender and sage, slowly release subtle scents as the panel dries and dissolves, offering a temporal, multi-sensory experience. The divider resists harsh lines or industrial separation, instead embracing slowness and softness in how we inhabit shared environments. The Gentle Divide is designed for wellness spaces, homes, or contemplative interiors where emotional and physical boundaries benefit from being porous and organic. It encourages viewers to rethink how materials, time, and ritual can shape the way we interact with space and one another. The project sits at the intersection of design, craft, and ecology, inviting reflection on impermanence, care, and our relationships with natural materials in a built world. In this way, The Gentle Divide is not just a spatial object, but a quiet, dissolving gesture of presence.

In association with Arts Thread

Working with our partners at Arts Thread to develop lifelong learning and career opportunities for students of fashion and design. Our partnership provides the opportunity to compete on a world stage, participate in industry led workshops, set up an outstanding portfolio and gain access to the resources that will kickstart careers in fashion and design.