A designer-researcher inspired to restore connections between people, place and nature.
Madison Taylor Sacramone
About me
What I like to do
What I'm working on
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My favourite colour is green. Not in a casual "it's my favourite colour" kind of way—I seem to have built an entire life around it.
Originally from New York and now happily rooted in the UK, I've always been fascinated by the relationship between people and place. Somewhere along the way, I traded my love of big cities for places that feel more like a collection of villages—places where community, nature, and everyday life can flourish together.
As a landscape architect turned designer-researcher, I spend my time exploring how the environments we create shape the way we live, connect, and belong. At heart, I'm an observer of places, a connector of ideas, and an advocate for designing beyond sustainability towards regeneration—creating places that give back more than they take.
I'm a serial hobbyist, which is a polite way of saying I'm curious about almost everything.
Most of my favourite activities involve being outdoors: walking, sketching, gardening, exploring, or simply noticing the small details that make places memorable and worth documenting. My sketchbook is often where ideas begin—part observation, part reflection, part design tool.
I also enjoy working where practice, research, and experimentation overlap, turning big ideas into practical action and finding new ways to reconnect people with the living systems around them.
I'm currently a PhD researcher, investigating how small, strategic interventions can create lasting social and ecological change. My research explores Urban Acupuncture as a method for creating regenerative places, using the emerging Eden Project Dundee as a living case study. Through this work, I'm developing ways to identify, map, measure, and amplify the ripple effects of place-based interventions within complex urban systems.
I've worked across landscape architecture, urban design, sustainability, and regenerative practice—moving between professional projects, academic research, and hands-on learning.
I see my career less as a series of qualifications and roles, and more as an ongoing exploration of one question:
How can we design places that help both people and nature thrive?
Work
Landscape Architect, Placemaking
Arup, Bristol (2022-2024)
Architecture Intern
BLOCK Renovations, New York (2019)
Education
PhD Urban Design, University of Dundee (2024-present)
MSc Advanced Sustainable Design, University of Edinburgh (2020-21)
BFA Interior Design & Sustainability, The Savannah College of Art & Design (2016-20)
Extras
4D Regenerative Design with Daniel Wahl, Gaia Education (2025)
Permaculture Design Certificate, Terra Alta, Portugal (2023)
LEED Green Associate, Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) (2022)