Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future opens at the Building Centre from 20 January 2023 until 15 April 2023.

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 Material Cultures, this exhibition asks how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically.

Three specially commissioned films made by Material Cultures 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.

A rich public programme of in-person and digital talks, workshops, and family activities will take place at the Building Centre throughout the exhibition run.

https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/homegrown