BBM SUPPORT MAKE LEWES FESTIVAL 2018

BBM SUPPORT MAKE LEWES FESTIVAL 2018

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BBM are proud to support the Make Lewes Festival 2018

The events are curated and organised by a Lewes-based community organisation that promotes the exchange of knowledge in the fields of Making, Architecture, Design & Sustainability.


In particular BBM are helping to sponsor: 
FutureScoping – On the future of Lewes’s cultural infrastructure provision: What do we want? What does Lewes need?
Sunday September 30th, 13.30 – 17.30, Depot Cinema, Pinwell Rd, BN7 2JS map
Tickets – £6.50 Concessions – £4.50
Tickets will be available soon on the Depot website

Featuring:
John Burrell, director Burrell Foley Fischer Architects, the architects of Lewes Depot
Alison Grant, founder and director of Fitzroy House –  Lewes’s latest cultural hub
Frances Hollis WorkHome advocate and researcher on this new ‘beyond LiveWork’ housing approach
Piers Taylor, Invisible Studio experimental architect, most recently on the participatory artists and makers Watchett Arts Hub
Jess Steele, director Jericho Road, social and community development, led Hastings Pier community organisation
Further speakers to be announced

FurureScoping is part of Make Lewes Festival 2018
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org

DUNCAN TO SPEAK AT UNMAKING WASTE 2018

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Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use

When: Conference runs from 20th-23rd September 2018

Duncan will be speaking on Friday 21st September at 15:45

Registration link

Location: University of South Australia (UniSA) Hawke Building, UniSA West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000

Full details

This Friday Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “The Unmaking Waste 2018” international conference in Adelaide. The conference will be hosted by the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the University of South Australia.

“Building upon the achievements of our first conference, Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place (May 2015), Unmaking Waste 2018 will be focused on the problem of consumption itself, and its role in increasing emissions, resource depletion and environmental degradation. The following themes will be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective:

  1. Eco-Design and Development:
    Designing, defining and managing objects, buildings, precincts and systems to reduce resource and energy use, and thus increase environmental and human well-being.
  2. Sustainable Consumption:
    Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
  3. Waste Minimization:
    Reducing waste and pollution at all scales, in all domains and activities, and in all places, and transforming this waste and pollution into states of greater value for reuse.
  4. Circular Economy:
    Optimizing social, material and economic relations and the value of goods and services to further the goals of the Circular Economy, including product and environment life-extension, reuse and repair.”

Further details on the event can be found here.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

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Brighton’s Waste House among the world’s most eco-friendly homes

The University of Brighton’s Waste House has been ranked one of the world’s most eco-friendly homes by a leading design company.

India-based design consultancy Minds Eye Design produced a YouTube film of some of the world’s most sustainable home builds and placed the University’s in third spot: https://youtu.be/bQnJpf0ge00

The award-winning Waste House, designed by architect and University of Brighton lecturer Duncan Baker-Brown, was made almost entirely from thrown away materials most of which were heading for landfill sites.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASEBaker-Brown said: “We are delighted the Waste House has been recognised in this way, and it is marvellous that the House is continuing to receive accolades four years after it was completed.”

“This is a reflection of the tremendous hard work and commitment invested in the project by many people including 350 students from the University and Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, volunteers, FREEGLE, the online reuse network which sourced much of the Waste House materials, The Mears Group and many contributing companies and organisations.”

Materials used in the project included 20,000 toothbrushes, two tonnes of denim jeans, 4,000 DVD cases, 2,000 floppy discs, 2,000 used carpet tiles, and construction waste.

Situated in the grounds of the University’s City Campus in Grand Parade, the Waste House is a live, ongoing research project and permanent new design workshop focused on enabling open discussion and understanding of sustainable development.

For more information about the House go to: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/wastehouse or visit our project page here. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE