🪵 🏡 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

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A multi-storey, maximum-timber construction system for unlocking urban infill sites, to provide low-carbon affordable homes.

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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

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up & Trade School – Re-use materials!

Join us at our next neighbourhood meet up where we'll be exploring re-use materials and their uses in construction and creative projects.

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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. housing-reimagined.eventbrite.co.uk

Housing Reimagined: Making the Homes We Need Within Planetary Boundaries

How can we deliver the 1.5million homes the government has pledged to deliver, without costing the earth?

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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... 1/2

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

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up @ Springfield Allotment

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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

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.

🗓️ 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. wcm-march-meetup.eventbrite.co.uk

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up – March

Explore the principles of design justice and learn how we can take digital ideas and bring them to life using the kit in the Factory.

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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! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-... #Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social

WeCanMake Hood Meet Up – Feb

Meet the WeCanMakers, for an evening of speed crafting and making!

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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 🙌

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AJ CLIMATE CHAMPIONS PODCAST | Melissa Mean (@melissamean.bsky.social) from community land trust WeCanMake (@wecanmake.bsky.social): ‘Retrofit is seen as really alienating. We’re trying to blow that apart’ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-clim...

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

WeCanMake Hood Meet Up – Feb

Meet the WeCanMakers, for an evening of speed crafting and making!

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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 🙏🏼

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. www.eventbrite.com/cc/wecanmake...

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Ups

Every third Thursday of the month, join your neighbours for an evening of making, meeting and mingling with WeCanMake.

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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👇 👇

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As everyone's becoming an expert on Nvidia stock prices and moats and Jevons paradox, I've got a new Green Paper out on inclusive innovation, social capital, and technology diffusion - three things that literally no one is talking about! www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...

📣 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...

Trends in Sustainable Solutions 2024

Explore the innovative solutions gaining traction in the built environment that seek to tackle key sustainability issues.

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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. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up – January

Our guiding principles – setting intentions for 2025

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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?

This sounds worth putting in the calendar! Black Mountains College is partnering with Sparks Bristol to host a Sustainable Futures workshop, bringing people of all ages together to explore what role they can play in creating a just society within safe planetary boundaries. Free, 25th Jan @ Sparks

What a cohort! We're delighted to see some friends and fellow collaborators here, and excited to follow the whole journey of local people turning extraordinary ideas in their neighbourhoods into action @footworktrust.bsky.social

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📢 Starting our Bluesky journey with exciting news: Footwork’s People & Place 2025 community innovators! 🏘️ These 10 groups & individuals make an ambitious collective, galvanised around a shared mission of locally-led neighbourhood transformation 🔗 www.footwork.org.uk/post/meet-th...

We are absolutely over the moon 🌑 to have been awarded the Community Land Trust 'All About Community' award on Saturday! ✨ John, one of WeCanMake's pioneering residents accepted it on our behalf. You can watch his speech here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-Ypm...

Laser cutting some of our @wecanmake.bsky.social mini retrofit kits 🏡🪑📚 Loading: a mini chair, sharing library, hedgehog house and table. Laser cut on ply and just like the full size versions, fit together with no tools - just friction fit!

Well this is turning into a pretty ok space to be :) Hello EVERYONE If you're seeking more #HopeInTheDark (gratitude & citations to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) - here's a starterpack of place-based changemakers who're making some of those better futures we all hope for happen. go.bsky.app/6BNBPgg

"We have to revive the central elements of that mid-century settlement: a mixed economy in housebuilding and careful regulation of credit and property markets". @tobylloyd.bsky.social on how we plan and build better homes. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... .

Planning for decent homes

How can local and national government play a more proactive role in shaping proposals for new towns? Toby Lloyd compares Britain’s failure to build houses with approaches taken in European countries w...

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Ok, I’m here… Who do I follow? You’ll find me posting about things including shaping regenerative neighbourhoods with the people who live in them, and my self-propelled adventures…

Right - EPC reform! You know those energy performance certificates that you see on Rightmove? They’re terrible, everyone in the energy sector hates them. But actually reforming them is tricky. My colleague @tomleach.bsky.social tries to chart a way forward www.nesta.org.uk/blog/epcs-ne...

EPCs need radical reform - here’s four ways how

The system has become too complicated. It's time to make EPCs useful.

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Hi, we're WeCanMake and we've joined the exodus from that other platform... WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test space in south Bristol, imagining and making low-carbon homes that grow social infrastructure and community wealth in the process. Operating out of a community microfactory, we... 🧵

🗓️ 21 Nov – 'Reimagine, remake and #retrofit your home, street + hood' @ The Factory 🗣️ Talks + workshops ✂️ Design + make a draught excluder 🍿 #RetrofitReimagined Film screening 🍲 Eat, drink + connect w WeCanMake network tinyurl.com/21nov-retrofit

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up

Re-imagine, remake and retrofit your home, street and neighbourhood!

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