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2022, Events, Talks

Health, Habitats and Hubs

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Healthcare, Design, Sustainability, and the Natural Environment

An afternoon micro-symposium focused on the relationships between healthcare design and architecture and the built and natural environments.

A Fourth Door Micro Symposium – 14.00 – 18.00 – May 21st, 2022 at Fitzroy House, Lewes (10 High St, Lewes BN7 2AD)

Tickets £10/ £2.50 benefits/students – Register on Eventbrite

Speakers

Laura Lee – CEO of the Maggies Cancer Care Centres on human centred health environments.

Angel Tenorio – project architect, Heatherwick Studio of the Leeds Maggies Centre, which highlights and integrates natural building materials, a roof garden, and a crafted approach into their centre.

Sunand Prasad – Principal, Perkins&Will, Co- founder of Penoyre & Prasad, and Chair UK Green Building Council.

Meredith Bowles – Founder Mole Architects, responsible for the Phoenix site Foundry Health Hub.

Dr Gemma Jerome – director, Building with Nature – research and communications organisations highlighting the benefits of the nature in the built environment.

Ed Rosen – Lambeth GP’s Food Co-Op, part of the Gardening for Health network.

Enquiries contact editorial@fourthdoor.org

Cover Image: Maggies Leeds – Heatherwick Design

http://www.fourthdoor.org

2022, Design & Make, Events, News, Seminar, Talks

PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2022 – THE XYLO SESSIONS

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We are pleased to be supporting Pioneering the Potential 2022 – The Xylo Sessions. 

The Xylo Sessions Wood+ evenings cast a spotlight on timber and post carbon natural building culture, highlighting projects, materials, research, and related initiatives, and building on previous Pioneering the Potential events in 2021 and 2019.

Cover image: Ferme du Rail, Paris – Grand Huit Architectes – Photo by Myr Murate

XYLO SESSION 0I – 19.30 – 21.15  APRIL 8TH 2022

Timber frame & carpentry renaissance @StudioHardie (details below)

Charley Brentnall – Founder of the original oak framers, Carpenter Oak & Woodland,instrumental in the British timber frame renaissance. And more recently co-founder of Xylotek.

Sally Daniels– from tangentfield, experimental community architects and live workshop specialist with the University of the West of England s Hands on Bristol, MakingLewes and Fourth Door’s Roots Architecture at WOMAD for the last ten years.

Dylan Walker and Paddy Cox, Built By Artizans –  traditional carpenters and timber framers from West Sussex, Walker and Cox will be talking about their latest project, Watersmeet Barn, Emsworth.

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can. Booking through Eventbrite

XYLO SESSION 02 – 19.30 – 21.15 MAY 13TH 2022

Hi tech & hand-made @ Human Nature (details below)

Peter Scully – from the Bartlett Architecture school’s B-made workshop and the Design for Manufacture course currently using Flimwell Park.)

Tom Bennett from Studio Bark and the U-Build modular open-source and prefabricated housing project

Karn Sandilands – from Brighton based Millimetre design engineers and makers

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can. Booking through Eventbrite

XYLO SESSION 03 – 19.30 – 21.15 JUNE 10TH 2022 

Post carbon cities and countryside – straw & timber @StudioHardie (details below)

Marine Kerbouaka – Grand Huit Architects, Paris, timber and strawbuild urban farm, Ferme du Rail

Steve Wallis from dRMM, the pioneering industrial timber and CLT studio, on their new Workstack makers and manufacturers building.

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can. Booking through Eventbrite

BOOKING, TIMES AND VENUE INFORMATION

April and June evenings at Studio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here (If inclement weather there is a back-up venue in hand.)

May evening at HumanNature – Phoenix House 32/33 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2QJ, map here

All evenings run from 19.30 to around 21.15

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can.

Booking through Eventbrite.

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

For further information please contact Fourth Door:

Sam Jenner: 07884 006413

editorial@fourthdoor.org

www.fourthdoor.org

2019, Events, Talks

Pioneering the Potential

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Pioneering the Potential: Natural Building Materials across the Weald & Downland

Friday July 12th 2019 – Lewes, Sussex

A symposium and projects tour hosted by Fourth Door Research in association with Making Lewes 

A full day introduction to natural building materials featuring a morning symposium and afternoon coach tour visiting projects, and demonstrating Sussex’s pioneering natural building materials role and potential.

Friday – July 12th 2019 – Symposium at Lewes Depot – 9.00am  – 12.00 at Lewes Depot, Pinwell Lane, Lewes  BN7 2JS followed by a projects tour – 12.00 to 19.30pm

Cost £50.00 for full day symposium and projects visit (including lunch and coach tour)  £20 student concession, and a limited number of free tickets for Lewes residents. Booking through Lewes Depot.

Morning – Symposium speakers

Cany Ash – Ash Sakula Architects on their exemplar natural building materials housing and integrating green roof garden terraces at scale.

Ben Bosence – Barcombe’s Local Works Studio on taking a landscape-led approach to the design of buildings, places and materials – working with communities to uncover hidden resources and apply vernacular processes to modern problems.

David Saunders – from the Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, pioneer of Sussex based timber building materials.

Anthony Thistleton – WaughThistleton Architects, the leading Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) architects.

Craig White – from Bristol’s White Design and co-creator of Modcell straw cassette wall panels, on the expanding the range of Bio-based material.

Afternoon – Projects tour

Lunch and tour of Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, plus visits to the Tobias

Green Community project by Nicolas Pople Architects, and to In-Wood Developments, leaders in the making of locally sourced timber-based construction materials.

The coach will return to Lewes Station by 19.30.

Further, more detailed about speakers, projects and the natural material’s revolution information can be found here.

Contact at Fourth Door: Oliver Lowenstein  0044(0)1273 473501 or Milly Manley 0044(0) 07956 580533

Events, Talks

Ceramics Series 2019

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Ceramics: public and personal change and regeneration

The first in an occasional series of talks about ceramics presented by Making Lewes.

Friday May 17th 7.00 -10.pm, Lewes Depot, Pinwell Lane, Lewes BN7 2JS (map)

Cost £5.00 or £3 student concession. Booking through Lewes Depot, tickets available HERE

Artistic director of the British Ceramics Biennial, Barney Hare Duke will talk about the aims and activities of the Biennial which takes place from September to November 2019 in Stoke on Trent.

Past Biennial award winner, Brighton based ceramicist Louisa Taylor will discuss her work and career as maker in porcelain, designer for industry, researcher, author and teacher.

The talks will be preceded by a screening of the 1947 short documentary The Five Towns which shows the production techniques of the skilled workers of Stoke and addresses the challenges of post war reconstruction in the region; a challenge which has been picked up by the British Ceramics Biennial in the face of regional decline and the increasing globalisation of ceramics production.

Making with Sussex clay past and present

Wednesday 12th June 2019, 7pm upstairs at the Elephant and Castle,White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ

Cost £5.00 or £3 student concession. Pay on the door

Talks on the medieval potteries around Lewes will be followed by a presentation about contemporary pots made with local clay

David Gregory ‘The early medieval pottery kilns at Ringmer’

David has had a long interest in the medieval pottery industry in Ringmer and has helped dig a number of kilns in the area.

John Bleach ‘The Medieval Potters of Ringmer’.

John has researched many medieval matters and worked at the Museum of Sussex Archaeology for 35 years.

Susie Ramsay-Smith, a potter inspired by the environment of her lakeside Sussex farm will present a recent collection of pots made from clay dug on the farm in pursuit of her current Craft MA at University of Brighton. Susie is a member of Kent Potters and exhibits with Sussex Arts Collective.

Image credit: BCB general view by Joel Fildes

Events, MLF 2018, Talks

MLF 2018 – Collaborative Conspiracies

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MAKE LEWES FESTIVAL 2018 LAUNCH EVENT

Tongue and Groove and Algorithms – the Fred and Will Story

Sit-down vegetarian supper with special guest talks by designer makers Fred Baier and William Hardie.

Friday September 21st 18.30 prompt at Fitzroy House, Lewes BN7 2AD map

Tickets £22.50 (includes vegetarian mezze supper, cake and a complimentary drink) Pay bar available. Booking online through eventbrite.

Fred Baier is an internationally renowned furniture maker, who pioneered the use of computer aided design in furniture making in the 1980’s, and has been at the forefront of drawing together analogue and digital making in the decades since.

William Hardie, is well known in Lewes for Studio Hardie. Resolving seemingly impossible design challenges, William has become a familiar face on Amazing Space’s and other TV programmes. Less known is that years ago Fred and William worked together on a public art project leading to a long and creative friendship.

The pair will thread together their shared story during the course of the evening.

Collaborative Conspiracies is part of Make Lewes Festival 2018

Events, MLF 2018, Talks

MAKERS TALKS EVENING

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Following on from previous festivals, our Makers talks evening again hosts locally and nationally recognised makers & crafts people.

Friday 28th 19.30 – 21.15 at Studio Hardie, Unit 4 Phoenix Works, North Street, Lewes BN7 2PE (map)

FREE (donations welcome)

Featuring:

Jim Keeling of Whichford Pottery  and the Oxford Anagama Project, who set up the well known Whichford Pottery over thirty years ago, will be talking about making and building a version of the ancient Japanese Anagama kiln, in the heart of Oxfordshire’s Whytham Woods.

Barbara Keal Lewes based felt-maker, will talk about her felt-making approach and striking resulting work.

Ceramicist Elaine Bolt, part of the MakingLewes group visiting the Bornholm international Ceramics European Ceramics Context Biennale will report back about the experience of visiting the Danish ‘potters’ island, famous for its ceramics culture.

Makers Talks is part of the Make Lewes Festival 2018 

For more information email: info@makinglewes.org

Cover image: Jim Keeling – Oxford Anagama Kiln Project. Photo: Bruce Clarke

2017, Events, Talks

Hans Johannsson – Icelands 21st Century Violin Maker – Nov 3rd

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Join us on Friday for the last of this years Collaborative Kaleidoscope talks series, from Icelandic stringed instrument maker, Hans Johannson.

November 3rd – 8pm at Fitzroy House, 10 High Street, Lewes BN7 2AD

All the way from Reykjavik, Iceland, Johannson is the country’s principal luthier and violin-maker, and is the last speaker in the Living and working in the capital Johannsson has been practicing his music instrument craft since completing studies and training at Britain’s principal Newark School of Violin Making.

Alongside traditional violin making, Johannsson’s music and sonic interests are broad. He has developed a series of Twenty First century violins and other experimental stringed instruments, collaborating with fellow Icelandic artists and musicians, including Olafur Eliasson, and his son Ulfur Hansson, and is involved in various experimental acoustics research projects.

In association with Fourth Door 

2017, Events, Talks

Emily Charkin – Wilderness Wood – Learning through Building – 27th OCT

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October 27th – 8pm at Fitzroy House, 10 High Street, Lewes BN7 2AD

Emily Charkin is one half of the husband and wife partnership, who have turned Wilderness Wood in Hadlow Down, Sussex, into an inspirational and thriving centre for children and adults to learn and work together.

Charkin will explore the educational value of the experience of co-making and building for both children and adults, alongside Wilderness Wood’s place within the radical education tradition.  For anyone interested in active learning beyond the classroom walls and school gates.

Talks are free though with a £5 suggested donation (to support continuing Making Lewes programming)
2017, Events, Talks

Fred Baier & Anna Bera – Furniture Art & Wood Design – Oct 20th

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This week we bring you two woody talks, continuing our Collaborative Kaleidoscope series, with invited speakers who have both used wood in pioneering and unusual ways. This time though (and appropriately), we will be hosting at the Studio Hardie workshop.

October 20th, 7pm – 9.30pm at Studio Hardie, Phoenix Works, Lewes BN7 2PE (map) 

* Please note Studio Hardie is a workshop and not a heated arts venue. Wear warm clothes!

Furniture maker & artist Fred Baier’s work is as individual and flamboyant as the man himself. Starting off in woodwork, Baier has been traveling a singular path, one foot in the 3D design world, the other in ‘Dan Dare’ meets Roxy Music Space Age retro-futurism. With his pioneering use of Computer Aided Design (CAD-CAM) in the 1980’s, Baier has been at the forefront of fusing together analogue and digital making, and taking wood based furniture design places others don’t.

With characteristic oddball panache Baier’s has titled his talk Form Swallows Function – crossing the analogue/digital divide. Miss it at your peril.

Anna Bera is the young artist-in-residence at Ditchling Arts + Crafts Museum, as part of their autumn exhibition, New Truth to Materials: Wood where – by the time she speaks on Friday – she will have just completed an artwork inspired by materials and place.

From Poland, Bera is particularly interested in natural materials, and has worked using wood on her Wild Children projects. Bera will be in conversation with Gian Luca Amadei from the Architecture Design Fashion team at British Council in London.

The talks are in partnership with Ditchling Arts + Crafts Museum.
Cover image: Anna Bera. photo: Emilia Oksentowicz
2017, Events, Talks

Duncan Baker-Brown – The Re-Use Atlas book launch – Oct 13th

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Making Lewes’s Collaborative Kaleidoscope teams up with local architect Duncan Baker-Brown for the Lewes launch of his new book The Re-Use Atlas.

October 13th, 8pm at Fitzroy House, 10 High Street, Lewes BN7 2AD

The Re-Use Atlas is an up to the minute repository of information, knowledge and working examples of materials re-use, signposting where the Circular Economy is heading. The Atlas follows on from Baker-Brown’s award winning Wastehouse project, the first building comprising (almost) entirely re-used and re-cycled materials, and  located at the South Eastern edge of Brighton University’s Grand Parade site.

Baker-Brown is one half of BakerBrownMcKay Sustainable Design, along with joint founder and director Ian McKay. The practice has produced a long string of exemplar sustainably designed buildings in and around the town.

For the Friday evening talk, Baker-Brown has invited Transition Town Lewes’s (and Lewes Phoenix Rising) Juliet Oxborrow to chair the evening, and has brought together a panel comprising Prof. Graeme Brooker (Head of Programme Interior Design at the Royal College of Art), Prof. Anne Boddington (Interim Dean  of Kingston School of Art, Professor of Design) Nick Gant (Principal Lecturer, Founder Community 21, Brighton University School of Architecture and Design), Bryn Thomas from Brighton Permaculture Trust and Making Lewes’s Oliver Lowenstein.

For those interested in the sustainable buzz around the Circular Economy the launch should make for a thought provoking evening.

Talks are free though with a £5 suggested donation (to support continuing Making Lewes programming)
Cover photo: The Living’s Local, Sustainable, 10,000 Brick Mushroom Tower at MoMA PS1. Photo: Andrew Nunes