WeCanMake
@wecanmake.bsky.social
Neighbourhood test-space imagining and making low carbon homes, social infrastructure and building community wealth in the process.
📍Knowle West, Bristol
WeCanMake.org
📍Knowle West, Bristol
WeCanMake.org
🪵 🏡 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
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
multimax: affordable homes within planetary boundaries - WeCanMake
A multi-storey, maximum-timber construction system for unlocking urban infill sites, to provide low-carbon affordable homes.
wecanmake.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🪵 🏡 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
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
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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May 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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
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.
housing-reimagined.eventbrite.co.uk
🗓️ 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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April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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
🗓️ 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
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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...
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Last week I had the privilege of meeting some of them...
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April 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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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
April 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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
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
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
April 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
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
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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.
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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
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.
wcm-march-meetup.eventbrite.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🗓️ 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
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
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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
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#Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
WeCanMake Hood Meet Up – Feb
Meet the WeCanMakers, for an evening of speed crafting and making!
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February 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
#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 🙌
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...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-clim...
AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘Retrofit is seen as really alienating. We’re trying to blow that apart’
‘What if the power and resources to make good homes were in the hands of our communities? What if yo...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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 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
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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February 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...
#Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
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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 🙏🏼
February 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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.
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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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February 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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...
www.eventbrite.com/cc/wecanmake...
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👇 👇
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...
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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...
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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January 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣 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...
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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WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up – January
Our guiding principles – setting intentions for 2025
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January 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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-...
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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 💚
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 💚
January 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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 💚
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 💚
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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?
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?
December 17, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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?
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
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
December 4, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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
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
📢 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...
🏘️ 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...
Meet the People and Place 2025 community innovators! | Footwork Trust
Over the next year, community innovators in across the country, will receive Footwork’s support to realise bold ambitions for change
www.footwork.org.uk
November 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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
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...
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...
We can make - CLT Awards - Made with Clipchamp.mp4
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November 27, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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...
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...
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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!
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!
November 26, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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!
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!
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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
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
November 20, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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
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
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"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...
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@tobylloyd.bsky.social on how we plan and build better homes. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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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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November 18, 2024 at 11:12 AM
"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...
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@tobylloyd.bsky.social on how we plan and build better homes. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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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…
You’ll find me posting about things including shaping regenerative neighbourhoods with the people who live in them, and my self-propelled adventures…
November 15, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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…
You’ll find me posting about things including shaping regenerative neighbourhoods with the people who live in them, and my self-propelled adventures…