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2023, Community Self Build, Events, Talks

HEART, HEARTH AND HOUSING – BROADENING THE HOUSING CONVERSATION

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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

2023, Design & Make, Events, Talks

PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2023 – EVOLVING THE BIO BASE

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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 Kruz, Bio-Integrative Design, UCL, and Oksana Bondar, BIOHM – 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

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

2021, Categories

PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2021

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Natural Building Materials across the Weald & Downland

We are pleased to be supporting this years Pioneering the Potential, an evening micro-symposium hosted by Fourth Door Research.

Talks, presentations and an exhibition focused on timber, demonstrating Sussex’s pioneering natural building materials role and potential.

Friday September 10th 2021, 18.00 – 21.00 at Studio Hardie Workshop* Studio Hardie, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, North St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2PE

*Seating will be appropriately spaced. The studio workshop is large and well ventilated. We would prefer face coverings to be worn inside.

Booking through Eventbrite. Free/Donations – pay what you can.

Symposium Speakers:

Steve Johnson (the Architecture Ensemble) and Chris O’Callaghan – Flimwell Park a new all-wood development showcasing local timber in Flimwell village.

George Fereday and Nick Meech – Home Grown House + the Home Grown House demonstration projects exhibition.

John Russell (to be confirmed) – Foxwood Cruck Frame built from local thinnings.

Amy Hammond/Lantern – Re-using urban and roadside wastewood, ash dieback and other wood destined for burning.

Lukas Imhof live on Zoom from Switzerland – on his engineered ash Ekkharthof Community Centre building.

Plus:

Fourth Door’s Annular wood and timber culture website relaunch will be part of the evening. Revisiting The Bio Base – Another opportunity to view Making Lewes’s 2014 the Bio Base exhibition.

More detailed information available via Fourth Door.

For further information please email editorial@fourthdoor.org or contact Sam Jenner (07884 006413)

Pioneering the Potential is hosted by Fourth Door Research in association with Making Lewes http://www.fourthdoor.org.

Photo credit: Flimwell Park Roland De Villiers/ShootLab

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MLF 2018 Talks

Makers Evening With Jim Keeling

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Jim Keeling set up the well-known Whichford Pottery and was instrumental in the Oxford Anagama Project. Keeling spoke to a sizeable audience of potters and other makers in Making Lewes member Studio Hardie’s ad hoc evening venue on Friday 28th.   Alongside exploring his thirty year Whichford Pottery journey, Keeling also told us about making and building a version of the ancient Japanese Anagama kiln, in the heart of Oxfordshire’s Whytham Woods, and his hopes and fears for the future of craft in current times.

MLF 2018 Talks

Building With Water With Niklaus Graber

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Architect Niklaus Graber, curator of Bengal Dreams, the major Swiss Architecture Museum exhibition currently touring Europe, provided an in-depth exploration of the relationship of architecture and water in the Bangladesh delta, where, with the majority of this populous nation’s land sitting at below sea level, there is a need to work carefully with water at all levels of society, including the built fabric.