'Design for Regenration' is a UK‑wide student design competition organised by Planted Community in partnership with software developer Vectorworks. It invites undergraduate students (and recent 2025 graduates) in design‑oriented disciplines (architecture, interior design, landscape, product/industrial/furniture design) to submit design proposals.
The theme of the competition is to reimagine the built and natural environment through regenerative design. Erin's winning project Towards the River Clyde focuses on the former industrial shoreline of the River Clyde — specifically the ex‑industrial edge at Port Glasgow in Scotland. The concept being to reuse local tenement sandstone as a key material; transform the shoreline into a coastal park that invites residents and visitors to engage with memory, nature and leisure; and to embed carbon‑cutting, circularity, habitat creation, and social/educational ambitions.
Find out more here: https://planted-community.co.uk/erin-mccaffray
Erin's tutors were Vid Znidarsic and James Chung and the MArch course directors are Dr Tao DuFour and Dr Irit Katz.