Developed in partnership with Waugh Thistleton Architects, MultiMax offers a “full stack” homegrown timber housing offer to unlock the hidden abundance of well-located urban infill sites to provide homes and social infrastructure precisely where they are needed most
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🪵 🏡 Introducing MultiMax: Affordable homes within planetary boundaries
MultiMax is a multi-storey, maximum-timber kit-of-parts construction system for unlocking the hidden abundance of urban infill sites to provide homes and social infrastructure where they are needed most.
wecanmake.org/multimax
Join WeCanMake this Thursday to learn about creative approaches in the construction and materials sectors that use re-use materials and new technologies to disrupt and change how we think about waste.
Book your spot: may-meet-up.eventbrite.co.uk
Making the Homes We Need within Planetary Boundaries
🗓️ 16 June, @wshed.bsky.social
We invite you to join community activists, designers, and policy-makers who are co-designing and making new ways to create decent and affordable homes that don’t cost the earth.
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A group of people around a table talking. The screen behind them says "Harnessing the power of culture so that all life on earth thrives" on a colourful background. Some people are wearing face masks.
The same group of people sitting around the table, but this time all smiling at the camera
A presentation slide that says: "The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily be made differently" - David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
Bristol is home to many cultural and creative organisations whose work opens our minds to think differently and create positive visions of the future - essential in the face of the climate crisis.
Last week I had the privilege of meeting some of them...
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Reminder to book your spot for our upcoming meet up – THIS THURSDAY 5-7.30. It should be a lovely sunny evening at the allotment 🌞 get stuck in to digging clay and making Cob to repair community infrastructure wcm-april-meetup.eventbrite.co.uk
Find out more, and book your spot here: wcm-april-meetup.eventbrite.co.uk
Flyer with words 'dig for vitality'
17 April – Dig for Vitality! ⛏️
At our next 'Hood Meet Up, we invite you to harvest clay from the soil, mix it into 'Cob', and use it to repair a community pizza oven! Get diggin’, share food, and find out how WeCanMake uses locally-sourced materials to create low-carbon, affordable homes in the hood
Colleagues Emma Taylor, @uniofbath.bsky.social and @melissamean.bsky.social al, @wecanmake.bsky.social took part in the inspiring final day of #Futurebuild2025, where they engaged with suppliers, explored innovative products, and represented #TransformingHomes.
You're invited to join us for the Meet Up at The Factory (BS4 1ET) from 5-7.30pm on Thursday 20 March. Book your spot here:
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In our current system where housing delivery feels disconnected from the wider needs & challenges of society, we’ll explore how using new technology and low carbon materials can make design more democratic, improve social cohesion, and improve ecological health for human/more than human residents.
Join us to explore how the WeCanMake team are informed by design justice principles to help us build good homes that address the wider challenges our society faces.
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Home is the first infrastructure of everyday life, but for many this infrastructure is crumbling, out of reach or missing altogether. How can the design of our homes and neighbourhoods be led by our community, while also contributing to wider movements for justice and collective freedom?
🗓️ 20 March – Everyday Design for a Better Tomorrow
For our upcoming Neighbourhood Meet Up, we'll be exploring the principles of design justice and practice how we can take digital ideas and bring them to life using the kit in our community microfactory.
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At our next WeCanMake Hood Meet Up (20 Feb), the team would like to share some of what we like making in our own time with YOU!
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#Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Tune into the @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Climate Champions podcast to hear @melissamean.bsky.social talking all things retrofit, and putting the power into community hands 🙌
At this meetup, you’ll be able to take part in:
🚲 Bike maintenance with Athlyn and Peter
🪡 Visible mending with Hester and Riannan
🍯 Fire cider making with Tay and Meha
🍲 Shared food + drink
😊 Connect with the wider WeCanMake network
Book your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
At our next WeCanMake Hood Meet Up (20 Feb), the team would like to share some of what we like making in our own time with YOU!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
#Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
We visited #UbeleInitiative and #BlackRootz in north London yesterday along with @civicsquare.bsky.social @wecanmake.bsky.social @darkmatterlabs.org #retrofit #rebuilders #growers bright sunshine, hot hibiscus 🌺 tea, straw & reed/rushes building, clay/hemp daub, centring reciprocal relationships 🙏🏼
Our meet ups are always free, open to all ages, and an opportunity to get together for food, drink and making. Booking ahead is helpful for us so we know how much food to prepare! We look forward to seeing you there!
View the full schedule here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/wecanmake...
Here's what's coming up in the next few months:
🏭 Feb (20th) Meet the We Can Makers...
🏡 Mar (20th) WeCanBuild... Try out green building skills and more
🐣 Apr (17th) Welcoming Spring... Celebrate the onset of spring outside at Springfield Community Allotment.
We've launched the programme for our Hood Meet Ups for the next few months! They'll take place every third Thursday at The Factory, with each one involving some making/crafting together, food and drink, and a chance to get together with the wider community.
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Great paper exploring how a neighbourhood-scale approach to innovation and technology diffusion, that starts with building stronger relationships between people, can inspire a culture shift across the UK that makes innovation work for everyone👇 👇
📣 We’re proud to be included in @ukgbc.bsky.social’s newest Trends in Sustainable Solutions Report! The report highlights a range of solutions providers from across the industry who are using innovative approaches to solve key challenges we all face. ukgbc.org/trends-in-so...
Tell us which principle resonates with you most 👇 👇 👇
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We developed these six principles last year with the support of @lornaprescott.bsky.social and Jo at CoLab Dudley. You can read more about their exploration of Principle Focused Evaluation here: www.dudleycvs.org.uk/imagining-an...
Here are a few reflections from team members @tayaziz.bsky.social, @athlynck.bsky.social and Riannan on which principles resonate with them most, and how they serve as a lens through which to sense-check and reflect on our work.
We are gently starting 2025 as a team, reflecting on the principles that guide our work, and how they will shape the year ahead. Join us at our Hood Meet Up this Thurs to explore the principles in more depth, share food, and connect with the wider WCM ecosystem.
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Person observing a 3D printer producing orange objects.
Young person and adult examining electronics attached to plants.
Group of people sitting in front of a modern building (KWMC). They are surrounded by a hybrid setup with cameras and microphones.
Person wearing a virtual reality headset and a shiny costume with fish-scale patterns.
Hello, BlueSky!
We’re Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC): a vibrant community hub, digital manufacturing space + neighbourhood living lab in Knowle West, Bristol. Since 1996, we’ve been collaboratively shaping fairer futures using arts, tech, and care.
Can’t wait to connect with you all 💚
How do you like to reflect on the last year + plan the next one as a team?
We've played around with Year Compass and a few other journaling methods at @wecanmake.bsky.social + would love to know what other tools are out there that we can use to look back + set intentions for 2025.. Any suggestions?
