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Lewes Makers Events

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Make Lewes Festival 2015 features a number of making and crafts focused events. These include:

COLLABORATIVE COLLISIONS

MAKERS TALKS EVENING

COOKED, BAKED & FIRED EXHIBITION

MAKERS OPEN STUDIOS

COLLABORATIVE COLLISIONS.

12-13th September

Lewes Phoenix Foundry

An improvisation over two days with cogs, wheels and hay.

For this years Festival we’ve invited local crafts people and makers to create a collaborative collision and come up with a joint completed work over the course of the first festival weekend.

Conversation, cogs, wheels, hay, ropewalks, wimbles with two rope making workshops for the public.

Public participation is happening Sunday 13th between 12.00 and 4.00pm, with all and everyone welcome. 
The open activities will include rope-making workshops and there will also be a cafe for refreshments.

Makers and Crafts people participating in Collaborative Collisions include the following:

Anne Marie ‘O Sullivan – Basket Maker

Jonathan Swan – Jeweler

Mike Pattison – Bicycle inventor

Tom McWalter – Designer & Maker

Photo credit: Alun Callender

Thanks to Diana at The Seamstress and Abigail from Abigail’s Drapery for supplying materials!

MAKERS TALKS EVENING

Friday 18th 19.30 – 21.30 Studio Hardie 1, (map)

Makers Talks evening with locally and nationally recognised makers & crafts people. Including The Collaborative Collisions team talking about their experience of improvising together over the previous weekend. Plus MakingLewes team member William Hardie of StudioHardie will be speaking!

Further speakers include:

Mary Butcher – Mary Butcher is one the country’s foremost Basket-Makers, and has exhibited both in Britain and internationally. She has conducted research into East Anglian basket making and was made an OBE

Charley Brentnall – Charley Brentnall has been at the forefront of the resurgence of oak and timber frame building carpentry during the last forty years. He was a founder of one of the earliest British new carpentry companies, Carpenter Oak & Woodland.

MAKERS OPEN STUDIOS.

Lewes Makers showing, talking and demonstrating their own particular craft and making.

Open Studios available at:

Guiliaume Lyons (map)

Mo Hamid Pottery (map)

Inglis-Hall Furniture Design (map)

Robin van Creveld Open Kitchen (map)

Nic Johnson Wood Sculpting – Studio 1, Vipers Wharf, railway Lane, Lewes BN7 2AQ

For times please see the schedule here
Lewes Makers Events are part of Make lewes Festival 2015.
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MAKING PLACES SPRING 2015!

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In the run up to the general election MakingLewes are hosting a new series of talks, taking their lead from the election and after, on the future of architecture, housing and the impact of new technologies.

Anna Minton – Public & Privatised Housing

April 10th, 7.30pm, The Needlemakers Cafe (map)
Suggested Donation £5

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist, who contributes regularly to The Financial Times, The Guardian and the BBC. She is the author of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century an ‘acclaimed polemic’ in defense of the public realm and against the growing transformation of Britain’s streets into privatised space over the last thirty years. Minton is a Reader in Architecture at the University of East London, and has been author of a number of influential reports on the future of Housing for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and The Institution of Chartered Surveyors, amongst others.

Alastair Parvin – WikiHouse, 3D Printing & Open Source Building

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April 17th, 7.30pm, Elephant & Castle* (map)
Suggested Donation £5

Alastair Parvin is one of the original catalyzers of WikiHouse – the Open Source Architectural and building network, which has been taken up all over the planet and triggered a wave of independent WikiHouse designs. Parvin is part of 00 Architecture, the radical architectural practice known for their fusion of the latest in social media with a progressive architectural agenda. He has authored Right to Build, an examination of the housing industry and polemic for a new social media aware self build revolution.

Jay Merrick – Architecture & Architects – No point. Let’s Just Finish Them Off!

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May 1st, 7.30pm, Elephant & Castle* (map)
Suggested Donation £5

Jay Merrick has been architecture critic of The Independent for 14 years, following an earlier career in news and environmental journalism. He writes regularly for Architects Journal, and has contributed to Deutche Bauzeitung, Blueprint, Building Design, Monument (Australia), Quotidien de l’Art, New Society, and the London Magazine. Jay has written central essays in architectural monographs for practices including Grimshaw and Partners, Wilkinson Eyre, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, and Arup Associates. He also works as a regular consultant for architectural practices. Jay has also written on art-related subjects for The Independent, Architects Journal, and Goodwood Magazine. His novel, Horse Latitudes, was published by Fourth Estate in 1999.

*Elephant & Castle Talks take place in the upstairs events room of the pub. Drinks available at the bar.

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LOCAL MAKING AND BUILDING TALKS

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Saturday 13th September, 2.30pm – 5.00pm

VENUE: WILLIAM HARDIE DESIGN STUDIO (map)

FREE

Celebrate the opening of Making Lewes’ first festival, with a series of talks from prominent local figures in the fields of architecture, design and sustainability.

2.30pm

William Hardie,  designer and craftsman well known for realising the projects on George Clark’s Amazing Spaces will talk about his work, materials and the workshop.

3.15pm

Oliver Lowenstein, writer, journalist and founder of the cultural review magazine Fourth Door Review, will talk about the Bio Base exhibition, it’s background and themes.

4.00pm

John May, Lewes base author and blogger will talk about his recent book Handmade Houses and Other Buildings.

 

 

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Make Lewes Festival 2014!

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Lewes’ first festival of making, architecture and sustainable design, hosted by MakingLewes

Sat 13th – Sun 21st September

Click here to see the festival overview

For further information on each section of the festival click on the links below:

13th – 14th – Local Making & Building Talks 

13th – 21st – The Bio-Base Exhibition & Seminar 

17th – 21st –  Housing Futures Exhibition & Seminar

17th- 19th – Design & Make Workshop

18th – 21st – Lewes Makers Exhibition @ The Depot

18th, 19.30 – 21.00 – Segal Self Build talk – Robin Hillier

19th, 12.00 – 17.00 – Visit to Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre

19th – MakingLewes@Zu Studio – Talks & Party

Further details coming soon……

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The Bio-Base Exhibition & Seminar

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VENUE: WILLIAM HARDIE DESIGN STUDIO (map)

13 – 21st September, 10.00am – 5.30pm

An exhibition showcasing examples of the emergent Bio-Based building materials revolution. The latest in renewable, natural building materials, including timber, reed thatch, chalk, flint and seaweed, with examples from the South East and further afield.

With a Seminar* on Sat 20th September, 1.30pm – 6.45pm 

Featuring:

Jonathan Fovargue, Eurban, who have been at the forefront of Cross Laminated Timber use in Britain.

Ian MacKay of BBM Sustainable Design on how Lewes’s own sustainable architects have been pioneers in locally sourced, renewable materials.

Craig White, whose interdisciplinary practice White Design developed the straw based timber cassettes Modcell system.

Nozomi Nakabayashi who’s Big Shed project was the result of the Architectural Association first year Design and Build course at Dorset Woodland centre, Hooke Park, will talk about both Hooke’s past and present.

David Saunders and Steve Johnson will overview the pioneering work done at the Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre on creating locally sourced timbers for the regional building sector.

And from Denmark, Vand Kunsten’s Soren Nielsen will talk about the unique Laeso Island Seaweed House

*Suggested donation of £5

Email makinglewes@outlook.com to reserve your place.

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DESIGN & MAKE LEWES WORKSHOP

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17-18th September, 10am – 5.30pm

VENUE: William Hardie Design forecourt

Get sawing, hammering and nailing and come and join MakingLewes’s first design & make workshop. In collaboration with Hands on Bristol & UWE.

The Brief:

To design, make, assemble and inaugurate [or launch] a unique mobile community structure.

The structure will be demountable and easily transportable. 

It will be usable in different areas of the community as a temporary pop-up space.

10.00am start on Wednesday 17th. Make Sure you wear appropriate working and making clothing

This is an accessible introduction to live design and build, welcoming newcomers and old hands, student architects, makers and non-students in a participatory, shared experience. To sign up or get more info email: makinglewes@outlook.com

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MAKING LEWES @ ZU

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VENUE: ZU STUDIOS (map)

Friday 19th September, 18.00 – 12.00

Join us for two exciting talks, followed by the Make Lewes Festival Party!

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18.00 – 19.00 Vigdis Haugtro – from Trondheim, Norway, talking about her Eco Pallet House, and the city’s alternative building culture.
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19.00 – 20.00 Kristoffer Tejlgaard from TejlgaardJepsen, on Copenhagen’s 21st century geodesic dome builders.

20.00 – 00.00 Make Lewes Festival Party!
£10 suggested donation for both talks and the party.
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VISIT TO FLIMWELL WOODLAND ENTERPRISE CENTRE

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Friday 19th, 12pm – 5pm

Building visit to the Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, which has pioneered the use of local South East growing woods (Sweet Chestnut, Douglas fur) for construction, with a series of cutting edge experimental buildings.

Guided tour of buildings and option to stay for discussion of Flimwell’s future.

12pm start from Lewes.

To sign up for the visit and get further details. Email makinglewes@outlook.com

Journey time to Flimwell is approximately one hour. Visit will last approximately three hours.

£10 Suggested donation.