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Amanda Talbot, eyes closed, holding a stone bound with cord to her ear, listening

Amanda Talbot · founder · listening

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Amanda Talbot

Designer, researcher, author and maker. I design for the body first.

For two decades I designed homes, hotels, restaurants and wellness spaces. Then the question changed: not how a space looks, but what it does to the body inside it. Today I research how the built environment supports nervous system regulation at the Royal College of Art, on a President and Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship, and I founded Studio Snoop to turn that research into places.

Studio Snoop

A design studio that became a lab.

Part design practice, part research lab, part maker's workshop. We write Biological Briefs, grow materials, build installations that breathe, design with a heart-centred machine, and take spaces from research to completion with the people who will live and work in them.

20Years designing hospitality, homes and wellness
NSD™Nervous System Design, nearly a decade in development
2022Tilly Talbot, a heart-centred AI designer
RCAMArch, Design Practice, School of Architecture

In the lab

Research you can see.

Amanda in a motion-capture suit and cap covered in tracking markers

Measure · motion capture

Two people blowing up balloons, both still smallThe same two people, one balloon growingOne balloon now much larger than the other

Test · one breath, two bodies

Amanda Talbot at Milan Design Week beside a sign about AI

Machine · introducing Tilly, Milan 2023

Exhibitions & talks

2026RCA Summer Show, LondonBREATHE
—Milan Design WeekNature's Call, a performative public work
2024India Design ID, New DelhiInvited speaker
2024Melbourne Design WeekTilly Talbot
2023Miami Art WeekHosted by The Standard ↗ 2023London Design FestivalGuest of Tom Dixon · Gus ↗
2023Milan Design WeekIntroducing Tilly Talbot · Bauhau-AI
2011Powerhouse Museum, SydneyLecture

Books

Fifteen years of asking how we live.

Murdoch Books

Rethink the way you live

Murdoch Books

Happy

Korean edition

Happy

In progress

Built to Heal

Shop the NSD houses →

Collaborators

Royal College of Art · Tom Dixon · Magical Mushroom Company · Cadrys · Master weavers, India · Stafford Architecture · Walter Barda

How we look

Amanda Talbot looking through binoculars

Observe

A raw block of stone in a quarry

Material

A figure mid-leap against a white wall

Movement

Coloured geometric solids resting on stone

Form

A soft blue chair casting a shadow with a plant

Comfort