INDEPENDENT · SELECTIVE · REGENERATIVE


Making Our Own Way in Design. An independent, director-led studio shaping regenerative places that connect people, nature and memory.

About the studio ›Finalist, Landscape Institute Awards 2026 · Finalist, Pineapple Awards 2026

Working withYTL Developments · National Trust · Herefordshire Council · Oxford City Council · Crest Experiences · Bristol Business Improvement District

How we read a place

Stories that shape place

How people move through a place, reading patterns of time and rhythm as design cues.

Every project starts with the stories behind a place. Four lenses guide how we read a site and what we design.

Montage of walkers and cyclists along the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal beneath a stone bridge, layered with hills, trees and birds A community wall of sticky notes, drawings and sketches from an engagement workshop Families crossing a footbridge over wetland in the Surf London canal parkland Collage of ferns and leaves drawn from the botanic history of Cyfarthfa Castle
01 · Choreographies of TimeMon to Brec, Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

Between the city and the coast

THE FOUNDERS

Founded by Michael and Kate Cowdy, MOOWD works from Bristol and Clevedon with a trusted ecosystem of specialists.

Meet the studio ›

MOOWD founders Michael and Kate Cowdy standing on the mudflats of the Severn Estuary at Clevedon

Insights

All stories

Stories

From the studio

All stories ›
Collage of arches and street life for Making Ground Making Ground: How Culture Reshapes Place A reflection on Bristol, culture and how streets, shared spaces and everyday life make a city. A surfer on green water for The Rise of Regenerative Leisure The Rise of Regenerative Leisure How can leisure restore the land it occupies? Surf London redefines recreation as regeneration.

Independent · Selective · Regenerative

Have a place in mind? Let’s talk ›

Bristol40 Berkeley Square
BS8 1HP
ClevedonOur coastal studio
North Somerset
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