Biomedically trained translationally applied design oriented builder
I am Joseph Arroway-Myatt. A biologist, designer, builder, and systems thinker working across domains to tackle fascinating problems I believe in. Arroway.works is a record of my projects, my process, and the problems I have chosen to tackle. Welcome to my workshop.
I thought I wanted to design objects. Things you could hold. Things people could touch, use, and love. As a teenager, I bought a 3D printer and began making products for customers. However my love of design was superseded by my love of biology and the natural world. I studied biological sciences at the University of the West of England before transitioning to Biomedical Sciences. I was never destined to be an amazing medical scientist, but I wanted to learn how nature orchestrates itself, how it uses materials and builds with immense complexity. If we can learn from nature, perhaps we can build better technology, a better society or a more prosperous civilisation. Then came Wrent, a student rental platform built to make renting less hostile in a market defined by friction, scarcity, and mistrust. We raised £10,000 to bring it to life. In 2022, I left Bristol midway through my biomedical degree and moved to Oxford to find a frontier. What began as an internship at the University of Oxford became LATTICE: a carbon modelling solution for taught courses. A way of asking what education costs environmentally, and how universities might begin to see the emissions hidden inside their own systems. Since then, my work has moved across sustainability, operations, compliance, laboratories, estates, change management, and institutional systems. Different rooms. Different languages. The same underlying question. How do you design something that works beautifully inside the mess of the real world? In 2024, I received a distinction in my MSci at the University of the West of England. In 2025, I received £20,000 to continue building LATTICE part-time. In 2026, I received £50,000 to build it full-time. Along the way, I have spent a lot of time listening: to students, researchers, technicians, academics, professional services staff, and the people who keep complex organisations moving. Their hopes. Their constraints. Their workarounds. Their pain. This site is a record of that process.