Material Cultures
Material Cultures

Homegrown, 2023

▣ TYPE: Exhibition
⧇ CLIENT: The Built Environment Trust at the Building Centre 
▤ KEY MATERIALS: Straw / Stone / Timber  
▦ METHODOLOGY: Material research / Film / 1:1 fragments
⧆ COLLABORATORS: Ella Frost / Mhamad Safa / Kate Handford / Amica Dall / Mark Harrington / The Building Centre team
⧇ SPONSOR: Built by Nature

Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future  argues that a new approach to building is needed to answer the social and environmental crises we are facing – one that respects geography, ecology, people and place. Created in collaboration with The Building Centre, this exhibition asks how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically. 

Material Cultures

Three specially commissioned films reimagine how we use land at a local, regional and national scale, offering the chance for economic and social renewal, and refiguring how we live. In a nod to the Building Centre’s origins as a materials bureau 90 years ago, we present a library of innovative materials alongside the exhibition, suggesting possibilities for the built future – away from the carbon-heavy industry standards and towards a bio-regional economy.

Homegrown, 2023

▣ TYPE: Exhibition
⧇ CLIENT: The Built Environment Trust at the Building Centre 
▤ KEY MATERIALS: Straw / Stone / Timber  
▦ METHODOLOGY: Material research / Film / 1:1 fragments
⧆ COLLABORATORS: Ella Frost / Mhamad Safa / Kate Handford / Amica Dall / Mark Harrington / The Building Centre team
⧇ SPONSOR: Built by Nature

Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future  argues that a new approach to building is needed to answer the social and environmental crises we are facing – one that respects geography, ecology, people and place. Created in collaboration with The Building Centre, this exhibition asks how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically. 

Material Cultures

Three specially commissioned films reimagine how we use land at a local, regional and national scale, offering the chance for economic and social renewal, and refiguring how we live. In a nod to the Building Centre’s origins as a materials bureau 90 years ago, we present a library of innovative materials alongside the exhibition, suggesting possibilities for the built future – away from the carbon-heavy industry standards and towards a bio-regional economy.