Mineral brings together the work of the 2025/26 Design Researchers in Residence.
Their projects interrogate the UK’s intersecting mineral landscapes, focusing on lithium, copper, silica and chalk.
The research spans the UK: from active mines in Cornwall’s ‘Clay Country’ to historic sites of extraction in Anglesey, Wales; from factory furnaces in North London and Sunderland to chalk aquifers and dew ponds across southern and eastern England.
Together, the projects ask:
Should the ‘green transition’ be sustained through the continued extraction of finite resources?
How can design research can help navigate the UK’s dependence on minerals?
Collectively, the displayed work explores how community consultation, landscape restoration, material reuse and alternative forms of resource management might help reshape our relationships with extraction.
The 2025/26 Design Researchers in Residence are Alfred Yatlong Yeung, Elise Limon, Rafael El Baz and Rosa Whiteley.
