PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL+ 2024
The Kung Holzbau office building by Seilerlinhart Arkitekten
PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL+ 2024
Pioneering the Potential+ 2024 is a series of events, including the following:
A Micro-Conference and talks evening, a Sussex Weald projects tour and a Design & Make workshop hosted by Fourth Door Research
Evening talks: 19.15 – 21.15 Thursday, 19th September
Morning symposium: 9.00 – 12.30 Friday, 20th September
Afternoon coach tour: 13.30 – 18.15 Friday, 20th September
Collaborative Collisions – Design & Make Workshop Wed/Thurs 18/19th September
Evening talks and micro-conference
This year’s Pioneering the Potential+ encompasses wood and timber culture across contemporary architecture, engineering, and materials through to art, design and craft.
And there’s the + – Bio and Land based materials: Straw from Paris, earth tiles from Vorarlberg, Austria and chalk buildings from Sussex and Kent.
19th September evening – 19.30 – 21.15, Studio Hardie, workshop Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, BN7 2PE, East Sussex, map here.
Tickets and booking
With Neil Sutherland, Makar, and (by Zoom) Soren Linhart, Seiler-Linhart Arkitekten (Switzerland), Tom and Polly Bedford UK Hardwoods, and Robin Nicholson, Buckland Timber + Bartlett students and tutors on their Collaborative Collisions design & make workshop.
For details see here
20th September – Morning micro-conference – 9.15 – 12.45 Friday Lewes Depot, Pinwell Lane, Lewes BN7 2JS map here followed by lunch 12.30 to 13.30pm.
Tickets and booking
9.15 – 12.45 – Fergus Feilden, FeildenFowles Architects, Charlotte Picard/Yannig Robert Rosny-Sous-Prefecture, Paris (France), Kate Davies & Emannual Vercruysse, Hooke Park, Sebastian Rauch, Karak, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, and further speakers.
For details see here
Afternoon coach tour
20th September – Afternoon coach tour – 13.30 – 18.00 – Flimwell Park and Wilderness Wood
The coach tour features the recent Flimwell Park mixed use development in Flimwell, Sussex, and Wilderness Wood, the adult and children making and building hub in Hadlow Down.
For details on the afternoon tour here
16.45 – 18.15 – Emily Charkin and Dan Morrish – Wilderness Wood
With tea and cake from the Hatch followed by an introduction to and tour of Wilderness Wood (in three groups) with Emily Charkin, Dan Morrish and Will Gubbins.
18.30 – Coach departure for Lewes railway station, arriving 19.00 – 19.15.
Design & Make Workshop
18-19th September – 9.00 – 18.00 – Collaborative Collisions, Lewes Phoenix Estate (venue to be confirmed)
Two day design & make workshop – students and faculty from the Bartlett School of Architectures Here East Design for Manufacture MArch course will be working with local timber framers and carpenters.
For details see here.
The workshop is open to all and welcomes participants skilled, unskilled and uber-skilled.
Other Information
FURTHER – in-depth overview of speakers and projects, etc.
Pioneering the Potential 2024 is the fifth year of Fourth Door’s Pioneering the Potential events, first initiated in 2019 to highlight and draw attention to regional Weald & Downland wood, timber and natural materials cultures.
Fourth Door – is a media, communications, events, and research platform, generally working in collaboration with a variety of partners. In addition, Fourth Door Research provides one-off consultancy and research.
Annular – Pioneering the Potential is supported by Annular, Fourth Door’s wood and timber culture web-portal
For further information please contact Fourth Door:
0044(0)1273 473501
0044(0)7527 206856
editorial@fourthdoor.org
www.fourthdoor.org
The Pioneering the Potential+ 2024 conference is supported by Eurban, Lewes District Council and Human Nature
In association with Making Lewes.
Fourth Door – Making the Connections