Investigative design

& construction.

Building;

infrastructure,

systems,

networks,

knowledge,

skills,

community

& culture

Social Designs CIC is a community of practice based in Cornwall aggregating local talent, tools and contextually relevant templates for the future to make positive contributions to our time and place.

We primarily work in and around the built environment on initiatives often extending into land-use models and agriculture - pursuing research agendas through live projects spread across an architectural design studio, construction team (trading as Social Constructs), education and engagement programmes.

Principles/values… bioregionalism/localism, materiality, craft, identity, of a place (economies of place?)

Not-for-profit; commissioned work enables/funds pro-bono/ community projects at no cost to the ‘client’.

Architecture

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→ The Work/Shop

Penryn, Cornwall

→ Chy An Creet

St Ives, Cornwall

→ Eco-Home

The Good Life Farm

ColdFrame Brewery

St Austell, Cornwall

Innovation Nursery Biomaterials Hub

St Austell, Cornwall

Construction

research themes

natural materials

→ UpCycle Kernow

Portreath, Cornwall

Studio POW

St Agnes, Cornwall

Black Females of Architecture Exhibition

Now Gallery, London

London Design Festival: Park Royal Studio Build

St Agnes, Cornwall

Engagement Events

Community engagement,

Participatory design and research

TIMBER - Assembly Space: Towards a Bioregional Construction Industry

St Agnes, Cornwall

Building Skills & Making

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→ Compost Loo - LWA

St Agnes, Cornwall

Rammed Earth Construction Workshop -

St Austell, Cornwall

→ Compost Loo - Loveland

St Agnes, Cornwall

Fibres & Binders Construction Workshop -

St Austell, Cornwall

Past Consultancy

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→ Rewilding Roscollas | Falmouth | 2019

→ Innovation Nursery | Falmouth | 2019

Allotment Club Artist Residencies

→ Unltd* - Elderly Life in Multi-Generational Cohousing Environments

Public Appearances, Facilitation

&Academic Roles

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Want to learn how to build with hemp lime?

The next in our series of popular hemp-lime workshops is coming up on February 22nd in St Agnes, Cornwall. You’ll learn how to conceptualise, design and build your own prototype with our experienced workshop leaders.