Sarah Macbeth is a designer, community collaborator and urban grower working with clients and communities to transition to a just and regenerative future.
A brief list of work and education is provided below, while a new site is being developed. Please email studio@sarahmacbeth.com for further information.
Selected recent roles and projects
Design and Engagement Manager, Community Energy Pathways, May 2023–July 2025
Design talk and walkshop in Brighton for Mass Observations, June/July 2024
Hourly Paid Lecturer, MA Sustainable Design, University of Brighton, May-August 2023
Policy Lab UK, Designer, August 2022–May2023
Multi-species Belongings zine contribution, designed and produced by Rae Turpin, funded by Collective Imagination Practice Community, 2022
Boundaries talk and workshop, Sustainable Design MA, University of Brighton, March 2022
Citizens are Designers feature, Permaculture Magazine, Summer 2021
Exhibition, Design Research Society Symposium, University of Brighton, October 2022
Exhibition, London Design Festival, September 2022
Citizens are designers – How can we re-imagine our relationship to growing and the land, live more sustainably, and nurture a more caring culture? Care & Citizenship project, De la Warr Pavilion, Spring 2021
Wicked Possibilities webinar, Invited creative response, Radical Methodologies Research and Enterprise Group, University of Brighton, Sept 2020
Data visualisations to support a commons-based future, Paper and workshop attendee, Participatory Design Conference, August 2020
Sustainability on Sea festival, Transition Town Hastings, Sept 2018 and Sept 2019
Car Free Day, Transition Town Hastings, Sept 2019
Proposal Bench for the Town Explores a Book Jane Eyre Project, St Leonards Warrior Square, Feb–March 2017
Community Garden, St Leonards Warrior Square, Started in 2015
Learning
Power of Place, Designing Places for Life, Spring / Summer 2025
Carbon Literacy Training, November 2023
Practical Ethnobotany, Great Dixter, Feb-July 2023
MA Sustainable Design, 2018–2020
Elemental, exploring the characteristics of the main elements: Earth, Air, Water and Fire, 2018
Introduction to Permaculture, Summer 2015
Interactive Design for Graduates, 2000
BA Graphic Design, Printmaking specialism, 1992
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