Community21 team in collaboration with Local Works Studio are presenting an exhibition of mapped waste materials and their meanings as a vision towards the 'circular city' at FutureBuild 2019 in London.
The exhibition designed by Nick Gant presents the notion of 'Buildings as material stores'(Baker-Brown) which explores designing buildings for disassembly and demonstration of how what would be considered waste materials can be continually reused in circular systems in the future - We therefore only 'borrow' the resources for the life of the form of the building.
It also considers 'Buildings as materials stories' (Gant) which equally seeks to promote the narratives and stories that can be exploited when we reuse and recycle materials. When we recycle the material we also recycle its history and meaning. We design means to elevate both the social and cultural value as well as the material value of the fabric of the city through authentic re-use and material messaging and language.
FutureBuild is one of the largest building industry expositions in the world and our exhibition forms part of the WasteZone. The WasteZone is curated by Duncan Baker-Brown alongside our exhibition there are talks from leading thinkers from across the globe relating to circular economies.
The exhibit highlights products developed as part of the EU funded Sustainable & Bio Resources for Construction Project led (in the UK by Duncan) which also generously supported this exhibition.