Elsa Parrot

About

Elsa Parrot is a interdisciplinary designer working within the field of design futures, exploring how design can imagine and shape more sustainable and equitable systems.

She has a background in product design, where she began by working with discarded and overlooked materials, exploring how waste could be revalued through design. Her early work was grounded in material experimentation and making, aiming to rethink how objects are produced and consumed. Over time, her practice has evolved to include systems thinking, speculative design, and more-than-human perspectives. She is particularly interested in how design can engage with environmental complexity, not just through sustainable materials, but by challenging the structures and behaviours that underpin production and consumption systems. While her work spans different industries, fashion has been a recurring lens, offering a rich intersection of cultural, ecological, and economic issues.

Her final project, “Weaving New Roles“, continues this trajectory by exploring the future of circular transformation in fashion. Set in the context of medium-to-large European fashion brands navigating circularity goals by 2035, it questions how the role of the designer can expand beyond product creation to support systemic change within organisations. The project responds to upcoming policy shifts, environmental pressures, and cultural values around longevity, care, and repair.