In light of the current social and environmental breakdown, Material Reform reimagines a decarbonised and decolonised future. How can we critically reassess our relationships to the world by engaging with our landscapes in a holistic sense, engaging with their geography, materiality, ecology, and place?

Through the lens of straw, hemp, clay, stone, and cork, all familiar and banal materials, audiences will be guided through an in-depth review of the ways that bio-based low-carbon materials can be used within modern methods of construction, whilst generating new forms of culture in the construction industry. These will be explored in tension with the impacts of extraction, production and industrialisation of concrete, glass, plastic, gypsum, steel, commonly used construction materials, in order to reassess our diverse relationships to the world.

Through the lens of straw, hemp, clay, stone, and cork, all familiar and banal materials, audiences will be guided through an in-depth review of the ways that bio-based low-carbon materials can be used within modern methods of construction, whilst generating new forms of culture in the construction industry. These will be explored in tension with the impacts of extraction, production and industrialisation of concrete, glass, plastic, gypsum, steel, commonly used construction materials, in order to reassess our diverse relationships to the world.