Rachel is a designer, researcher and educator who founded Loop.pH in 2003. Rachel trained at the Royal College of Art in London and specialised in responsive environments inspired by the study of living systems.
Rachel Wingfield, WIRED Innovation Fellow 2014
Specialist in ephemeral, lightweight architecture
Installation and set design for Viennese theatre group Toxic Dreams.
Living algae through a textile photosynthesising to produce bio-fuel
MetaboliCity is a vision of a city that metabolizes its resources and waste to supply its inhabitants with all the nourishment they need and more.
Vyksa votes ‘Happiness’


Animated Lace at the MoMA, NY, 2007
A generative, emergent light and sound environment with a luminous and responsive growth
Responsive light environment
Rachel Wingfield, a student at the Royal College of Art, demonstrates her illuminated pillow at the Orange at Home research house in Hatfield Business Park. Photo by Michael Walter/Troika
A biomimetic textile inspired by photosynthesis, 2002
Smart textiles for home of the future, 2001
First fully animated digital, electronic wallpaper, 2006
Experiments in living design and architectural structures using textile principles, 2005
Rachel speculates on near and far future scenarios that explore emerging biological and technological futures by crafting space, technology and living materials into visionary experiences and environments. Her work explores a new role for designers to intervene at an urban scale and develops collaborative tools for public engagement initiatives and multidisciplinary practices.
She also consults on creative strategies and speculative futures for business and the public sector, and as an educator she lectures and delivers workshops internationally.