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PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL+<\/sup> 2024<\/h2>\n

FURTHER \u2013 in depth and in detail information about the speakers, projects and conference context.<\/h3>\n

Pioneering the Potential+<\/sup> 2024<\/strong>, hosted by Fourth Door<\/a>, is in the fifth year of its regular Lewes events series. First initiated in 2019 to highlight and draw attention to regional Weald & Downland wood, timber and natural materials cultures, it is complemented by Annular<\/a>, Fourth Door\u2019s wood and timber culture web-portal.<\/p>\n

On this page you will find in-depth information about the speakers, projects and the broader context regarding their participation in Pioneering the Potential+<\/sup> 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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FRIDAY MORNING I – ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS<\/h3>\n

Depot Cinema \u2013 Fergus Feilden<\/strong>, FeildenFowles Architects, Yannig Robert<\/strong> Rosny-Sous-Prefecture, Paris (France), Kate Davies & Emannual Vercruysse<\/strong>, Hooke Park, Sebastian Rauch<\/strong>, Karak, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva<\/strong>, and further speakers<\/p>\n

Fergus Feilden<\/strong>, FeildenFowles Architects<\/p>\n

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Fergus Feilden is a founder and director of\u202fFeilden Fowles Architects<\/a>.<\/a>\u202fThe architectural studio are part of a recent generation of younger practices who, over the last fifteen years, have been redefining the British architectural scene, pursuing a low-tech, crafted and authentic materials led design ethos. Working across the education, heritage, arts and cultural sectors, recent projects have included the Dining Hall at Homerton College, Cambridge, the Weston at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and the Urban Nature Project, which transforms the five acres of outdoor space around the Natural History Museum. Their current project at\u202fBlack Robin Farm<\/a>,\u202fnear Lewes, is a new arts and education centre and eastern gateway to the South Downs National Park.<\/p>\n

Riding on Sculpted Form<\/a> \u2013 FeildenFowles\u2019s The Weston at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park<\/p>\n

Generation Game<\/a> \u2013 FeildenFowles feature in this profile of younger generation studios emerging in the slipstream of Bath elders, FCB Studios.<\/p>\n

www.feildenfowles.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Bio (coming soon)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Charlotte Picard and Yannig Robert<\/strong> – Rosny-Sous-Bois prefecture<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Picard and Yannig Robert<\/strong> – Rosny-Sous-Bois prefecture – the\u202fRosny-Sous-Bois city\u202fin Paris\u2019s St Denis county has been pioneering a natural materials agenda across its public building estate. The city\u2019s small architectural and engineering team have built up a national reputation for their\u202fradical building agenda, spanning passive\u202fventilation, locally sourced natural materials\u202f-\u202fparticularly straw \u2013 a conscious use (rather than overuse) of local timber, alongside\u202fworking and supporting regional natural materials companies\u202fand organisations and\u202fhelping\u202fbuild this network and its capacities. Each project features live R&D, developing their breadth and knowledge base of the built examples, with\u202fboth buildings and the wider network used as active teaching and learning aids for the school\u2019s children, who are engaged with projects.<\/p>\n

Architect Charlotte Picard <\/strong>and engineer Yannig Robert<\/strong> are senior members in the Rosny-Sous-Bois\u2019s prefecture\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

A feature on natural material designed buildings in the Rosny-Sous-Bois municipality is part of special feature\u202fsection on Fourth Door\u2019s Unstructured extra straw focused edition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bios (coming soon)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Kate Davies & Emannuel Vercruysse<\/strong>, Hooke Park<\/p>\n

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\"kate-davies\"The Field Station, Hooke Park<\/p>\n

Kate Davies & Emannuel Vercruysse co-lead the Architectural Association\u2019s world-renowned Hooke Park school,<\/a> near Beaminster, Dorset, a 300-hectare wood which provides much of the source material for ongoing timber build experiments within the school grounds.<\/p>\n

At the forefront of the integration of digital tech, specifically robotics and sensors in Britain, Davies and Vercruysse and Hooke Park have been developing new tech augmented roundwood design approaches for hyperlocal projects like the Robotic Woodchip Barn<\/a> and the Field Station<\/a> and will be showing the latest steps of this work at the conference.<\/p>\n

Bio (coming soon)<\/p>\n

FURTHER<\/p>\n

The Rise of the Robots<\/a> \u2013 Robotics informed architecture from Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Hooke Park, Dorset<\/p>\n

Hooke Park<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Rowland Keable<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nRowland Keable<\/b>\u00a0– Britain\u2019s leading rammed earth specialist and director of\u00a0Rammed Earth Consulting<\/a>, will be talking about both earth and chalk\u00a0construction. As the country\u2019s leading earth\u00a0construction specialist Rowland has built many projects Britain as well as different African countries,\u00a0including\u00a0Zimbabwe<\/a>, \u00a0Zambia and\u00a0Ethiopia<\/a> In Britain regional projects have included Plumpton College and the\u00a0Wastehouse, Brighton<\/a>\u00a0which features chalk walls. He has also used chalk is the core\u00a0construction\u00a0material at Pines Calyx, Dover, Kent, as well the WISE Building lecture hall at CAT, Wales and Cornwall’s\u00a0Eden Project gateway visitor<\/a>\u00a0and ticketing\u00a0centre. He is co-founder of the earthen construction network,\u00a0EBUKI<\/a>\u00a0and their\u00a0annual Clayfest shindig.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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Thursday evening<\/h3>\n

Thursday evening Neil Sutherland<\/strong>, MAKAR (Scotland) S\u00f8ren Linhart<\/strong>, SeilerLinhart Arkitekten, Switzerland, Polly and Tom Bedford<\/strong>, UK Hardwoods, and Robin Nicholson<\/strong>, Buckland Timber
\nNeil Sutherland<\/strong>, Makar, Scotland<\/p>\n

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Neil Sutherland<\/strong> is a legend in the Scottish sustainable architecture and building scene. Having built up his architectural practice, Sutherland launched MAKAR<\/a>, (Scots for maker-poet) expanding into pre-fabrication and building systems developed and designed for local Scottish timbers. The integrated practice and studio have designed and built many individual homes, as well as social housing, office, community and workshop buildings across Scotland and wider afield. With MAKAR Sutherland has demonstrated a model of regional building culture which is beginning to be replicated by others in the country.<\/p>\n

Neil Sutherland has<\/strong> been working on developing locally sourced timber materials, building designs and architecture through much of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

FURTHER<\/p>\n

Timber and the new Highlands Regionalism<\/a>\u00a0 – Neil Sutherland and his timber architecture is featured in this overview of the return of timber to the Highlands<\/p>\n

Building Biographies<\/a> – Sutherland\u2019s Strathnairn Forest Shelter was featured in the Fourth Door curated Glasgow Lighthouse Building Biographies<\/a> exhibition<\/p>\n

Annular Archive<\/a> Scottish pieces<\/p>\n

Makar<\/a> Bio (coming soon)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

S\u00f8ren Linhart<\/strong>, Seiler-Linhart Arkitekten (Switzerland)<\/p>\n

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he Kung Holzbau office building by Seilerlinhart Arkitekten<\/p>\n

S\u00f8ren Linhart – SeilerLinhart Arkitekten<\/a>\u202f- SeilerLinhart are a Lucerne\/Sarnen\u202fbased practice in central Switzerland. They have worked with\u202fK\u00fcng Holzbau<\/a>,\u202fan\u202fObwalden\u202fcanton timber manufacturer of regional hardwoods, including K\u00fcng Holzbau\u2019s office headquarters<\/a> \u2013 above. The Canton is one of the leaders in the development of Swiss Wood, a national initiative to develop the use of regional forests for buildings, with some of the most influential companies, for instance Neue Holzbau\u202fAG\u202fand engineers, PirminJung both operating from there. S\u00f8ren Linhart will speak over Zoom.<\/p>\n

FURTHER<\/p>\n

Ashes to Beech<\/a> \u2013 how a ten-year research programme drove the return of indigenous Swiss ash, beech, oak and other hardwood\u2019s supporting hardwood specialist like N\u2019 Holzbau and start-ups like Fagus Suisse.<\/p>\n

Ash Gastronomy<\/a> \u2013 ash hardwood is centre-stage in Lukas Imhoff\u2019s Ekkharthof community centre and restaurant.<\/p>\n

Free-form swallow\u2019s function<\/a> \u2013 Unstructured extra Swiss timber engineering, materials, and architecture edition.<\/p>\n

Switzerland \u2013 current timber architecture scene<\/a> \u2013 Annular Further overview feature<\/p>\n

SeilerLinhart Arkitekten<\/a><\/p>\n

Bio (coming soon)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Polly and Tom Bedford<\/strong>, UK Hardwoods and\u202fRobin Nicholson<\/strong>, Buckland Timber<\/p>\n

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Polly and Tom Bedford, UK Hardwoods and\u202fRobin Nicholson, Buckland Timber – these specialist Devon timber companies\u202fexemplify the emerging network of regional timber operations involved in developing materials out of regionally grown native species in this instance the West Country, ranging from hardwood flooring, external cladding, and with Buckland Timber, Britain\u2019s only indigenous glulam manufacturer.\u202f UK Hardwoods and Buckland Timber worked together on the formers bespoke recent wood storage warehouse<\/a>, built from North Devon larch and Douglas Fir, the former grown and harvested by Bedford\u2019s family, used both as posts and turned into glulam beams by Buckland Timber. The warehouse is thought to be the longest span freestanding building using British sourced glulam beams.<\/p>\n

Homegrown timber hub finds a footing<\/a> \u2013 a new chapter in the development of Devon\u2019s regional timber network<\/p>\n

New Natives<\/a> \u2013 Woodland Trust and Evolving Forests research collaboration on non-traditional species native to Devon: Alder, Hemlock and Beech<\/p>\n

DevoniA\/nnular<\/a> \u2013 part 1 of the Devon focused Annular edition.<\/p>\n

Annular Archive<\/a> Devon and South-west pieces<\/p>\n

UK Hardwoods<\/a><\/p>\n

Buckland Timber<\/a><\/p>\n

Bios (coming soon)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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FRIDAY MORNING II – ARTS, CRAFT & DESIGN<\/h3>\n

Sebastian Rauch<\/strong>, Karak, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva<\/strong>, Duncan Kramer<\/strong>, Front Yard Company<\/p>\n

Sebastian Rauch<\/strong>, Karak<\/p>\n

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\nKarak\u2019s workshop \u2013 photo Hanno Mackowicz<\/p>\n

Sebastian Rauch, Karak<\/strong> – Karak<\/a> are one of Vorarlberg, Austria\u2019s, new generation crafts outfits making beautiful raku tiles which can be found throughout Europe. An outgrowth from Lehmtonerde, Europe\u2019s main rammed earth specialists founded by Sebastian\u2019s father, Martin Rauch, Karak grew out of a collaboration between Rauch\u2019s wife, Marta and their son, Sebastian Rauch. The Karak raku tiles feature in Lehmtonerde \u2013 and many other – projects, particularly the family\u2019s Rauch Haus<\/a>. Sebastian and his colleagues have developed a suite of geometric designs which are currently being expanded into mixed-material type furniture and other designs.<\/p>\n

Bio (coming soon)<\/p>\n

Karak<\/strong> are featured in the new Fourth Door Review<\/strong>, no 12 (out very soon.)<\/p>\n

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Lehmtonerde features\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working the Earth<\/a> \u2013 Martin Rauch profile – Europe\u2019s rammed earth maestro<\/p>\n

Haus Rauch<\/a> \u2013 Lehmtonerde and Karak showcase project<\/p>\n

Gone to Earth<\/a> \u2013 Unstructured extra 7 Lehmtonerde themed feature<\/p>\n

Karak<\/a><\/p>\n

Lehmtonerde <\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"elpida\"The Gilded Elm, Preston Park, Lewes<\/p>\n

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva<\/a>\u202fis a Macedonian born, internationally recognised, contemporary visual artist, based in Sussex; working across sculpture, installation, print and architectural interventions. She works with a range of unusual materials,\u202fand has a recurrent focus on trees. She is also an experienced gilder. During the COVID lockdown period Hadzi-Vasileva self-initiated\u202fThe Gilded Elm<\/a>\u202fproject in Preston Park, Brighton, turning a dead elm into a sculptural presence in the park. She is working on CUSP, her largest work to date, a timber and steel sculpture, and several other wood related projects.<\/p>\n

Hadzi-Vasileva was commissioned by the Vatican for the Pavilion of the Holy See, at the 56th International Art Exhibition with her work Haruspex (2015) and represented the country of her birth, Macedonia, at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, with Silentio Pathologia (2013).<\/p>\n

A landscape of trees and community<\/a> \u2013 Elm specialist, Alistair Peters, on how the Brighton elm trees survived Dutch elm disease.<\/p>\n

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Duncan Kramer <\/strong>– Front Yard Company<\/p>\n

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Duncan Kramer is co-founder of two related businesses\u202fFront Yard Company<\/a>\u202fand\u202fGreen Roof Shelters<\/a>\u202fthat design and manufacture award-winning nature-based solutions to common utility needs – commonly cycle parking and bin storage. Everything produced focusses on making more space for wildlife in urban spaces. Part of this involves maintaining a coppiced chestnut woodland\u202fin East Sussex (chestnut then used by Green Roof Shelters)<\/p>\n

Front Yard Company<\/a><\/p>\n

Green Roof Shelters<\/a><\/p>\n

Bio (coming soon)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON TOUR – about Flimwell Park and Wilderness Wood<\/h3>\n

Flimwell Park <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"flimwell\"Flimwell Park \u2013 photo Flimwell Park<\/p>\n

Flimwell Park<\/a><\/p>\n

Flimwell Park is an ambitious mixed-use centre and timber showcase which opened in 2022 and introduced a second major timber hub to the small village of Flimwell, after the pioneering Woodland Enterprise Centre. The extensive privately led development consists of eight ‘artisan workshops’, a gallery\/caf\u00e9 restaurant, student chalets for education and training, three private homes and a ‘focal building,’ combining events space, workshop and other facilities.<\/p>\n

The project uses a mix of locally and regionally sourced timber – including Douglas fir and larch sourced from Southern England – and imported Estonian glulam timber and SIP cassette panels.<\/p>\n

Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre – Steve Johnson was also architect on the WEC\u2019s phases two, three and four, as well as the project architect on the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum\u2019s Gridshell building.<\/p>\n

Flimwell Moves On<\/a> \u2013 The Architecture Ensemble\u2019s Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre cruck-frame<\/p>\n

The Making of the Downland Gridshel<\/a>l \u2013 Steve Johnson, Cullinan\u2019s project architect for the Downland Gridshell, ten years on.<\/p>\n

Annular Archive<\/a> \u2013 Sussex and the South-east<\/p>\n

Flimwell Park<\/a><\/p>\n

The Architecture Ensemble<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Wilderness Wood<\/p>\n

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\nWilderness Wood cabin \u2013 still from Building Cabins in Wilderness Wood video<\/p>\n

Wilderness Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilderness Wood<\/a> is an experimental educational centre set in a 60 acre community woodland in Hadlow Down, East Sussex. Home to Emily Charkin and Dan Morrish, their children and a wider community, the family partnership mixes architect Dan Morrish\u2019s passion for building low tech timber designs with Emily Charkin\u2019s excitement at experimental schools and communities unrealised potential. Mixed age groups come together through workshops and other events which combine timber crafts, building and learning from the woods, offering young people \u2018instead-of-school\u2019<\/a>experiences working across ages on real projects.
\nWilderness Wood<\/a><\/p>\n

10 Years, 10 Buildings, 10,000 Volunteers<\/a> – Wilderness Wood ten years anniversary video film<\/p>\n

Building Cabins in Wilderness Wood<\/a> \u2013 Woodlands TV video<\/p>\n

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Mixed age Wilderness Wood at work and play \u2013 photo Wilderness Wood<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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\"pp2024\"Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre \u2013 Photo Theo Lowenstein\/Fourth Door<\/p>\n

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PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL+<\/sup>2024 – WHAT IS IT AND WHY?<\/h3>\n

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pioneering the Potential+<\/sup>2024<\/strong> continues Fourth Door\u2019s mission of raising awareness about the potential and prospects of regional timber and natural materials and creating a closer to nature building culture, and, alongside overlapping and related themes, placing them slap bang centre stage in front of our \u2018neck of the woods\u2019 audience.<\/p>\n

At nearly 19% South-east England is the most wood covered part of England, and the third, after Scotland and Wales, most wood covered in Britain. In contrast to both of these, the South-east comprises mixed rather than conifer dominated woodlands, the clayey Weald primarily containing Sweet Chestnut, Scots and Corsican pine, Larch, Douglas fir, and Oak tree species.<\/p>\n

To give a sense of the untapped potential, there are some 19, 000 hectares Sweet Chestnut across the South-east leaving an annual excess of around half a million tonnes with another 100,000 tonnes of Sweet Chestnut growing annually, without beginning to affect the existing reserve of core woodlands. Nationally, of all the UK timber harvested, 7% goes to the timber sector compared to 84% goes into biomass fuel. One final and this time regional stat: across the South-east some 174,000 ha (450,000 acres) \u2013 is delivered to the Sandwich Combined Heating Power<\/a> (CHP) Thames estuary plant, as biomass to be burnt.<\/p>\n

Alongside the woods there is a well-developed wood and timber culture in the South-east. Projects like Flimwell Park and its pioneering cousin, the Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, in the east, mirrored in West Sussex by the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum\u2019s iconic Downland Gridshell, have helped raise this regional profile. Recent new momentum, though, has been ushered in by the country\u2019s largest timber housing project, developer HumanNature\u2019s Phoenix neighbourhood here in Lewes, which also aims to integrate as much regionally sourced wood into the development as possible, received planning approval early in 2024.<\/p>\n

More generally meeting Climate challenges, not least the construction sectors vast carbon footprint (generally seen as between 38-40%) is bringing biogenic and land-based materials closer to the forefront of the sector, as an effective approach at drawing down the embodied carbon while fuelling the growth of the Bio-Circular Economy.<\/p>\n

This sea change is reflected across a patchwork of related British and European scenes and the Pioneering the Potential+ project is also about stitching the South-eastern Weald and Downland scene into the wider UK and continental communities and networks, hence – reprising previous years – this year\u2019s guest\u2019s bringing news of what is happening in Devon, Scotland, Paris and Vorarlberg, Austria.<\/p>\n

We also delight in drawing together and mixing up categories. Whether architects, artists, tech folk or timber framers, crafts people, designers, foresters or sawmillers, Pioneering the Potential+ is about bringing people together and creating a clearing for open palm conversation and sympathetic collaboration. Not for us discipline enforced silos.<\/p>\n

And finally \u2013 for now \u2013 Pioneering the Potential+ is about ways and means of drawing down carbon emissions. Is it, for example, really climate intelligent that so much of the regions wood is used for burning as biomass (a current officially prescribed carbon emission reduction strategy)? Particularly given increasingly diverse ways in which usually ignored parts of the woods – whether thinnings or waste wood – are being integrated into the materials palette in far greater proportion than before. Other scenarios, including the low to high-tech spectrum – from timber framing to robotics \u2013 need airing, discussion, and dissemination. Different pathways lead to different futures. There are wider debates to be had about our future forests – as much as our futures – and Pioneering the Potential+ provides a forum for just these issues, hopes and fears.<\/p>\n

\"fcb\"FCB Studios Art & Design Building \u2013 Photo Hufton & Crow<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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Fourth Door related pages<\/h4>\n

Earlier Pioneering the Potential+ events<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pioneering the Potential+<\/sup> 2024<\/strong> is the fifth year of Fourth Door\u2019s Pioneering the Potential events. Beginning with a first Wood Plus Day held in June 2019, Fourth Door has co-ordinated annual Pioneering the Potential events in each subsequent year, except 2020, when Covid shuttered the doors.<\/p>\n

These have included two series of evening talks, The Xylo Sessions<\/a> (2022), and Evolving the Bio base<\/a> (2023), a Post-Local timber culture<\/a> micro-symposium (September 2021) and its launch Pioneering the Potential Wood Day<\/a> event (2019), featuring morning presentations and our inaugural afternoon a coach tour. See here<\/a> for a full overview.<\/p>\n

Annular<\/a> \u2013 Pioneering the Potential is complemented and supported by Annular, Fourth Door\u2019s wood and timber culture web-portal. Many of the links below are to Annular articles, and themed sections.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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Projects<\/h4>\n

Weald<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Harbouring History and Nurturing Nature<\/a> – Simpson & Brown employs local timber for their Rye Harbour Discovery Centre<\/p>\n

Growing Flimwell\u2019s shell structure building<\/a> –\u00a0 Sweet Chestnut at the heart of Flimwell\u2019s Woodland Enterprise Centre phase 1<\/p>\n

Into Phase 2<\/a> \u2013 Douglas Fur Cruck Frames-as Flimwell WEC moves on Stealth Sustainability<\/a> – Baker-BrownMcKay\u2019s Sustainable Design\u2019s camouflage their projects in an ecologically-hued modernism<\/p>\n

Shorne Wood\u2019s Sweet Chestnut Cruck Frame<\/a> – a North Kent visitor centre with Sweet Chestnut at its heart<\/p>\n

Sweet Chestnut creates a contemporary aesthetic<\/a> \u2013 the Bridge community centre in Hastings deploys glulam Sweet Chestnut<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

& Downland <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Art Barn<\/a> \u2013 FCB Studios return to Bedales school Art &\u2008Design Building connects with and breaks from its past<\/p>\n

The Making of the Downland Gridshel<\/a>l \u2013 Steve Johnson, Cullinan\u2019s project architect for the Downland Gridshell, ten years on.<\/p>\n

Carpentry comes back<\/a> \u2013 how carpentry\u2019s craft skills returned after almost disappearing<\/p>\n

Annular Archive<\/a> \u2013 Sussex and the South-east<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Woods and Trees <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Sweetest Timber<\/a> – David Saunders on the re-emergence of Sweet Chestnut as a South-east England building material<\/p>\n

A landscape of trees and community<\/a> \u2013 Elm specialist, Alistair Peters, on how the Brighton elm trees survived Dutch elm disease.
\n\"trees\"Home Grown House Sweet Chestnut prototype in the woods \u2013 Photo George Fereday<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Home Grown House<\/a> \u2013 George Fereday on the two-year coppiced Sweet Chestnut research he oversaw<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Other<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Farewell to the local Sawmill<\/a> \u2013 John Russell on the disappearance of part of the traditional timber fabric<\/p>\n

Cluster \u2013 Anne Marie \u2018O Sullivan\u2019s art-shell basketry experiments with Sweet Chestnut timber<\/a> (exhibition at Fabrica, Brighton)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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\nFourth Door<\/a> – is a media, communications, events, and research platform, generally working in collaboration with a variety of partners. In addition, Fourth Door Research provides one-off consultancy and research.<\/p>\n

For further information please contact Oliver Lowenstein, Fourth Door:
\n0044(0)1273 473501<\/a>
\n0044(0)7527 206856 <\/a>
\neditorial@fourthdoor.org<\/a>
\nwww.fourthdoor.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pioneering the Potential+<\/sup><\/em> 2024 conference is supported by Eurban, Lewes District Council <\/strong>and Human Nature\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIn association with Making Lewes<\/a>.
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