‘Furnishing the Fens’
Summer School in the Fens

2026

w/ Flimsy Works, STORE Projects, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants. Photography by Kaye Song.

In this 4-day workshop, local young people were guided through the building of a reconfigurable display table made from a kit of parts. Each element is made from a different wetland material with materials that take longer to grow and harvest at the base and younger materials at the top. These were: clay bricks; oak legs; alder trusses; birch tops; willow pegs; and reed trays.

Wetland shelving with steam

2026

w/ Seb Birch & STORE Projects

In this 1-day workshop at King’s School, Peterborough, students learned how to steam-bend catspaw joints in willow poles and create decorative marquetry with hot-pressed tiles made from Common Bulrush in a display shelf system.

‘Farm to Furniture’
Summer School in the Fens

2025

w/ Flimsy Works, STORE Projects, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants. Photography by Katie Einon Kamara.

In this 4-day workshop, local young people learned how bio-based materials are driving landscape regenerations across farms in the Fens, by experimenting with binder-free bio-composite materials made from wetland grasses and prototyping functional, playful furniture stools from these.

‘Festival of Fibres’
Materials Week at CAT

2024

w/ Gywn Stacey, Dieter Brandstatter & Centre for Alternative Technology

Co-facilitated four days of hands-on workshops exploring natural fibre–lime composites, including hempcrete internal wall insulation and prototyping with experimental fibres: bracken, reed, and miscanthus. Participants foraged fibres on site, processed them into bio-aggregate, and hand-pressed lime and clay bricks.

‘Bulrush Craft’ at Peat Fest

2024

w/ RePeat, House of Annetta

In this afternoon workshop, attendees explored how Common Bulrush and Sphagnum moss are cultivated on rewetted peatlands, then got hands-on reimagining them as next-generation bio-based building materials.

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