PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL+ 2024 – Friday coach tour
Flimwell Park Focal Building – Photo Steve Johnson
PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL+ 2024
20th September – Afternoon tour, 14.45 – 18.30 – conference afternoon
The Pioneering the Potential+ 2024 Sussex Weald coach tour is to Flimwell Park and Wilderness Wood.
The coach tour features the recent Flimwell Park mixed-use development in Flimwell, Sussex, and Wilderness Wood, Hadlow Down, a community woodland centre mixing working with wood, low tech timber design and experimental education across mixed age work groups.
Tickets and booking.
Schedule
14.45 – 16.00 – Flimwell Park – the visit will include an informal tour with the project’s architect, Steve Johnson, the Architecture Ensemble, and Patrick O Callaghan, Regalmain.
Flimwell Park Further Information
Flimwell Park is an ambitious mixed-use centre and timber showcase which opened in 2022 and introduced a second major timber hub to the small village of Flimwell, after the pioneering Woodland Enterprise Centre. The extensive privately led development consists of eight ‘artisan workshops’, a gallery/café restaurant, student chalets for education and training, three private homes and a ‘focal building,’ combining events space, workshop and other facilities.
The project uses a mix of locally and regionally sourced timber – including Douglas fir and larch sourced from Southern England – and imported Estonian glulam timber and SIP cassette panels.
FURTHER - in-depth info on the conference speakers and projects, etc
16.45 – 18.15. – Wilderness Wood – a 60 acre community woodland experiment in combining low tech timber design with experimental education and craft, making and building with mixed age work groups learning through real building projects and group interaction. For further information about Wilderness Wood see here
Wilderness Wood Further Information
Wilderness Wood
Wilderness Wood is a 60 acre community woodland in Hadlow Down, East Sussex. Owned by Emily Charkin and Dan Morrish and their three children, they share the work and fun of looking after the woodland with a resident ‘home-team’ of about ten people and a wider community of about 250 member households. Dan focuses on designing and building low-tech timber structures with and for the community. And Emily organises events and activities for the member community – including helping out on Dan’s buildings! Emily also supports the growing movement of home educators by offering Wilderness Wood as a site, Instead of School.
FURTHER - in-depth info on the conference speakers and projects, etc
Wilderness Wood visit in further detail
16.45 – 17.15 – Tea and cake from The Hatch – followed by an introduction to and tour of Wilderness Wood with Emily Charkin, Dan Morrish and Will Gubbins.
17.15 – 18.15 – Tour of the woods (in three groups)
Emily will make the connection between working with wood and experimental education and Dan and Will Gubbins,– carpenter and core WW team member – will lead tours of the buildings and structures built in the woodland.
18.30 – Coach departure for Lewes railway station, arriving 19.00/19.15
Tickets and booking
Full afternoon timetable
13.30 – Coach departs Lewes
14.45 – Flimwell Park visit
16.00 – depart Flimwell Park
16.45pm – arrival with tea and cake followed by an introduction to the woods before the Wild Supper meal.
17.15 – 18.15pm – Tour of the woods with Emily Charkin, Dan Morrish and Will Gubbins.
18.30 – Coach departure for Lewes railway station, arriving 19.00/19.15
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The Pioneering the Potential+ 2024 conference is supported by Eurban, Lewes District Council and Human Nature
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