Collaborating with the London boat community, these bioremediating floating gardens were designed to be built and installed by boat residents using accessible and locally sourced materials to fight canal water pollution. By incentivizing boaters with the promise of a private floating garden, this community-based call to action automatically strategizes and targets the source of water pollution and converts it into the solution. This collectively improves the quality of this shared water ecosystem whilst promoting the growth of native plants, insects and birds.

Riya is a multidisciplinary designer passionate about combining science, craft and aesthetics to create audience-centric design. She blends functionality to create applied solutions to real-world problems. Her work, Boat BioLogs has already been featured on international platforms like Milan Design Week 2023, Dutch Design Week 2022, Green Product Award and Isola Design District. It has also been featured and published in ArchiExpo, Megosu, Green Trend Book 2023, StirPad and ICON Magazine.

Riya is a multidisciplinary designer passionate about combing science, craft and aesthetics with design that is user-centric. She blends her work with functionality to create applied solutions to real-world problems.