A series of Timber and Natural Materials events by Fourth Door Research in association with Making Lewes, from 18th to 20th September. Pioneering the Potential is supported by Lewes District Council and ASBP Members Eurban and Human Nature.
Programme (bookings and further details for all the events via Fourth Door on Eventbrite):
Collaborative Collisions, Lewes Phoenix Estate
Wednesday 18th – Thursday 19th September 09:00-18:00
Two day design & make workshop – collaboratively colliding with high tech robots and low tech timber framing. With students & faculty from the Bartlett Design for Manufacture MArch course working with local timber framer John Russell. The workshop is open to all and welcomes participants skilled and unskilled.
Pionering the Potential 2024 Conference Part 1 + Design & Make Workshop
Studio Hardie Workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works
Thursday 19th September 19:15-21:00
Neil Sutherland of Makar (Scotland), Soren Linhart of Seiler-Linhart Arkitekten (Switzerland), Tom and Polly Bedford of UK Hardwoods, and Robin Nicholson of Buckland Timber (Devon) + Bartlett Design for Manufacture team and John Russell, Lewes timber framer, on their Collaborative Collisions design & make workshop.
Pionering the Potential 2024 Conference Part 2
Lewes Depot, Pinwell Lane, Lewes.
Friday 20th September 09:00-13:30
Fergus Feilden (Feilden Fowles Architects), Charlotte Picard/Yannig Robert (Rosny-Sous-Prefecture, Paris), Sebastian Rauch (Karak), Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva (Gilded Elm Project, Brighton), Kate Davies & Emannuel Vercruysse (Hooke Park), Rowland Keable (Rammed Earth Consulting) + further speakers.
Pionering the Potential 2024 Conference Part 3 – Projects Coach Tour
Friday 20th September Afternoon 13:30-19:30
Visit and tours of the recent Flimwell Park and celebrating ten years of Wilderness Wood – two contrasting examples of contemporary Weald Sussex timber architectural and building culture. Leaving from and returning to Lewes station.