About Us

WILD SPACES was born from a unmet need by us, and also realising that other people have similar but slightly different problems, and we thought what’s the best way to cater to every person’s unique self and identity, and did a ton of research… and the answer was ‘let them design it for themselves, every person knows themselves the best’, and thus WILD SPACES began during the MA project at Central Saint Martins in 2024, and came to life in 2025, and we’ve been growing and learning ever since.

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Our Founder/Creative Director, Khyathi Sivakumar, is a Graduate from UAL, Central Saint Martins where she studied MA in Applied Imagination in 2024, and was also actively going to various kink events as a person as well as part of her autoethnographic-design research project, where she noticed a lack of representation in product types, sizes, kinks, POC and so on. This led her to explore the BDSM gear market in the UK, and quickly realised the huge essential gap in the market, and through her research and leaning from her background as a Leather Goods Designer, she wanted to solve this problem and fill in this gap, and so she started researching into “accessible design”, which made her realise it focuses only on functionality, but kink is also community and people, and she looked into “inclusive spaces” and how they’re designed and collaborated with PinkyPromise in October 2024, to design ice-breaker games at their event, which fed into her research. After this she looked at various case studies on how accessible products are designed, and quickly leant into “Human-Centered Design”, which is a framework for creating products/servies that are built to meet the specific needs of consumers,

and thus was born WILD SPACES, this first started as a Co-Creation workshop, the heart and soul of the organisation, which was an intervention in October, 2024, and then in December,2024, as a part of her Graduate Showcase at Central Saint Martins. After graduating, she took a break for 5 months to focus on herself, and then slowly restarted working on WILD SPACES.