PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2026 - HOMEGROWN 02 - NEW BRICKS FOR OLD

Ben Bosence, Local Works Studio's waste brick for the new Design Museum Gent and Alice Hardy on the Triangle New Story Garden community hub Ben Bosence, a specialist in clay, earth and soil-based materials, is a co-founder Local Works Studio, a materials studio working out of Barcombe, Sussex. Ben will be talking about LWS's work with the just re-opened Design Museum Gent on a specially developed Gent Waste Brick (made out of local waste material and reducing the bricks carbon footprint by two thirds.) A collaboration with the museum’s architects, CamodyGroarke and Belgian materials specialists BC Materials, this is the latest in the studio’s ten years of research and live projects focused on developing circular low to no carbon material strategies and solutions. Alice Hardy is Global Generation's Community Build Manager and has worked as an architect. Alice’s particular interest in how communities can be involved in the design and construction of the built environment has been realised with the New Story Garden (the Triangle) a first permanent home and hub for the community organisation, Global Generation, which provide mixed community programmes fusing urban food growing, self-build, cooking and eating together with story-telling, and reflection. Photos below of Design Museum Gent, the Gent Museum Waste Brick and the Triangle New Story Garden