Sustainable ceramic design is at the core of Kevala’s approach to responsible making where material integrity, craftsmanship, and long-term use are prioritised over trends. Kevala is honoured to receive Collaborative Impact of the Year at the The Punch Awards 2025, recognising the Sungai Carafe collaboration with Sara Howard and Sungai Watch. This award acknowledges projects that demonstrate how cross-disciplinary collaboration can create measurable environmental and cultural impact. For Kevala, it affirms a long-standing belief: responsible design is not an add-on, but a foundation.
What Is The Punch Awards?
The Punch Awards is an international platform that celebrates work at the intersection of design, sustainability, and social impact. Its focus extends beyond aesthetics recognising initiatives that address real-world challenges through thoughtful, collaborative solutions. The Collaborative Impact of the Year category specifically honours partnerships that transform shared values into tangible outcomes, setting new standards for responsible making across industries.
The Sungai Carafe: Design Rooted in Responsibility
At the centre of this recognition is the Sungai Carafe a functional object shaped by environmental urgency and refined craftsmanship. Developed in collaboration with Sara Howard and Sungai Watch, the carafe is made using reclaimed consumer glass waste retrieved from Bali’s rivers. What was once discarded becomes a durable, everyday object designed for long-term use in hospitality and domestic spaces. Rather than treating sustainability as a visual statement, the Sungai Carafe integrates responsibility directly into its material logic transforming waste into ceramics without compromising performance, tactility, or refinement. The Sungai Carafe is a clear example of sustainable ceramic design, transforming reclaimed glass waste from Bali’s rivers into a refined, functional object for hospitality use.
A Collaboration Built on Shared Intent
Each collaborator plays a distinct role: Kevala brings ceramic expertise, production precision, and a commitment to longevity in form and function. Sara Howard contributes a design approach grounded in material honesty and clarity of use. Sungai Watch provides the environmental framework actively recovering waste from Bali’s waterways and turning awareness into action. Together, the collaboration demonstrates how aligned values can translate into objects that serve both people and place.
Impact Beyond the Object
In hospitality settings, the Sungai Carafe offers a meaningful alternative to single-use plastic bottles reducing waste while elevating the dining experience. More importantly, it reframes how material responsibility can exist quietly within everyday rituals, without overt messaging or compromise. This is impact measured not only by environmental metrics, but by adoption, durability, and relevance over time.
Recognition That Reflects Kevala’s Ethos
Being recognised by The Punch Awards reinforces Kevala’s ongoing direction: to create ceramics where craftsmanship, responsibility, and design integrity coexist naturally. The Sungai Carafe is not positioned as a limited statement piece, but as proof that conscious making can be seamlessly embedded into functional design when collaboration is intentional and values are shared. This recognition reinforces Kevala’s belief that sustainable ceramic design is most meaningful when responsibility is embedded in process, not presentation.
