Fourth Door News
New 2023 Pioneering the Potential Bio based materials talks evenings and an alternative housing micro-symposium, Heart, Hearth and Housing.
New Unstructured and Unstructured extra – Straw edition – Parisian urban straw
Further Straw – in-depth information portal on straw-based architecture, building, and culture in Britain and across Europe.
PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2023 – EVOLVING THE BIO BASE
THREE FIBRE MATERIALS EVENINGS HOSTED BY FOURTH DOOR RESEARCH* IN LEWES, SUSSEX, JUNE 2023
Three Fibre materials evenings hosted by Fourth Door Research* in Lewes, Sussex in June 2023.
At Studio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here and Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes)
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 (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes) TBC
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
EVOLVING THE BIO BASE EVENING 02 – 19.30 – 21.15 – JUNE 9th
Algae and Bio-integrative materials and Mycelium
At Studio 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
EVOLVING THE BIO BASE EVENING 03 – 19.30 – 21.15 – JUNE 16th
Seaweed and BioAdaptive materials
At Studio 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
HEART, HEARTH & HOUSING – ALTERNATIVE SYMPOSIUM + FAIR – 14.00pm – 18.15pm – JUNE 3RD
At Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes) TBC
An afternoon symposium featuring local and national speakers involved in Co-Housing, Community Land Trusts, Self-Build, etc.
Featuring Craig White and Guy Harris from Agile Homes’ Radical Housing network.
Pooran Desai – from Bioregional (TBC)
And locally, Tom Warder, Action for Rural Sussex, James Gardiner & Sam Jenner, Future Folk Co-Housing, Stella Peyerl & Zoe Wangler, Ecological Land Co-op.
Plus (from Brighton!) Marek Kohn, author of the new book Stories Old Towns Tell and others.
Booking through Eventbrite
Unstructured Straw
A new edition of Fourth Door’s Unstructured web-magazine – with straw build surging across the country an in-depth look at one aspect of this French revolution; the new urban straw network in Paris, alongside features on UK straw projects, including the Hastings Bale House, and from White Design and Modcell to Agile and TAM’s: the long straw journey of Craig White.
Further Straw
in-depth information portal on straw based, architecture building and culture in Britain and Europe.
Booking, times and venue information
The evenings will happen at Studio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here and the symposium afternoon at Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes)
All evenings run from 19.30pm to around 21.15
Cost:
Evolving the Bio base – Donations – pay what you feel you can.
Heart, Hearth & Housing – £6 – Free Unwaged/benefits/students with proof
Booking through Eventbrite
For further in-depth info and bios see here
*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
