Category Archives: 2023

HEART, HEARTH AND HOUSING – BROADENING THE HOUSING CONVERSATION

A FOURTH DOOR MICRO SYMPOSIUM – 14.00 – 18.15 – JUNE 3RD, 2023

Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes)Tickets £6 benefits/students – Free – Register on Eventbrite

An afternoon micro-symposium focused on the interconnected themes of alternative, affordable, self-build and community living and housing. The afternoon is a collaboration with Bristol’s Agile, featuring speakers from their Radical Housing network.

The afternoon will mix national with local speakers, including Co-Housing, Community Land Trust, and Self-Build projects, along with speakers on related themes from universal access to old and new towns.

Speakers:

From Agile Homes’ Radical Housing network

Craig White (ex-White Design and Modcell, now Agile Homes/Property) on their TAM’s radical housing  concept, including a new project in Lewes.

Guy Harris – Accessible PRS – Universal Design – campaigning for and ensuring accessibility across all buildings.


Pooran Desai, founder of OnePlanet, co-founder of Bioregional and the BedZED, Britain’s original eco-district (TBC)

Marek Kohn – writer, journalist, and author of the new book: The Stories Old Towns Tell


Tom Warder, Action for Rural Sussex, including the Phoenix development’s Co-Housing and more broadly, Community Land Trust in Sussex and elsewhere

Stella Peyerl and Zoe Wangler – Ecological Land Co-Operative

James Gardiner and Sam Jenner, Future Folk Sussex Co-Housing project

Further speakers to be confirmed

Cover Image: LILAC – The Leeds eco-district designed by Craig White’s White Design

BOOKING, TIMES AND VENUE INFORMATION

The afternoon will be at Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes)

Cost: Tickets £6 benefits/students – Free with proof – booking through Eventbrite

*Heart, Hearth and Housing is hosted by Fourth Door in association with Making Lewes

For further information please contact Fourth Door:
01273 473501
editorial@fourthdoor.org
www.fourthdoor.org

Heart, Hearth and Housing is supported by Lewes District Council and Agile Homes

PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2023 – EVOLVING THE BIO BASE

THREE FIBRE MATERIALS EVENINGS HOSTED BY FOURTH DOOR RESEARCH IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAKING LEWES IN JUNE 2023

At Studio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here and Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD.

All evenings run from 19.30pm to around 21.15 –
Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can.

EVOLVING THE BIO BASE EVENING 01 – 19.30 – 21.15 – JUNE 2nd

Straw, straw bales and straw panels

At Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD.

Craig White, Agile – TAM straw insulated buildings, Phil Christopher, Huff’ n’ Puff builders of Hastings Bale House and, via Zoom from Slovakia, Bjorn Kierelff Ecococon and Createrra  (including their Gernot Minke straw dome)

Booking through Eventbrite

Further info on Fourth Door site

EVOLVING THE BIO BASE EVENING 02 – 19.30 – 21.15 – JUNE 9th

Algae and Bio-integrative materials and Mycelium
AtStudio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here.

Marcos KruzBio-Integrative Design, UCL, and Oksana BondarBIOHM – Mycelium in design.

Booking through Eventbrite

Further info on Fourth Door site

EVOLVING THE BIO BASE EVENING 03 – 19.30 – 21.15 – JUNE 16th

Seaweed and BioAdaptive materials
AtStudio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here

Julia Lohmann, Dept of Seaweed, from Aalto University, Helsinki, and Isabella Goggin, Southeast England Fibreshed and the natural fibres movement

Booking through Eventbrite

Further info on Fourth Door site

Cover Image: Julia Lohmann – Department of Seaweed


*Pioneering the Potential is hosted by Fourth Door in association with MakingLewes

For further information please contact Fourth Door:
01273 473501
editorial@fourthdoor.org
www.fourthdoor.org

The Evolving the Bio base evenings are supported by Lewes District Council and Agile Homes