29th October 2021
Making for the moon, architecture’s timber renaissance, and keeping London creative
October news: HØLTE calls for carbon transparency; Nelly ben Hayoun launches Tour de Moon creative bursaries; AHEC releases new Words on Wood podcast series; and Zetteler gets creative with the GLA
Tour de Moon with Nelly Ben Hayoun
£1million bursary fund open to lunar-inspired creatives aged 18–25
£1million bursary fund open to lunar-inspired creatives aged 18–25
Calling all young nightlife artists, performers, creatives, digital artists, musicians and writers! On 21 October, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios officially fired up the thrusters on one of the most ambitious and out-of-this-world creative funding programmes this side of Jupiter. Up to 875 bursaries, ranging from £100 to £25,000, are up for grabs – all you need is to be between 18 and 25, and have a creative project inspired by or connected with the moon.
Successful applicants will become part of Tour de Moon – a nationwide lunar celebration taking place up and down England next summer. Focusing on UK’s night-time culture, the event will encompass music, performance, digital experiences, live discussions, print publications, and a touring ‘Moon Convoy’ bringing its madcap lunar-led creative vision from city to city. Applications close on 6 January, which is rapidly approaching, so please spread the word!
To the moon!
Successful applicants will become part of Tour de Moon – a nationwide lunar celebration taking place up and down England next summer. Focusing on UK’s night-time culture, the event will encompass music, performance, digital experiences, live discussions, print publications, and a touring ‘Moon Convoy’ bringing its madcap lunar-led creative vision from city to city. Applications close on 6 January, which is rapidly approaching, so please spread the word!
To the moon!
Adébayo Bolaji: The Power & The Pause, Croydon
NEW CLIENT ALERT: Greater London Authority
Zetteler supports Creative Enterprise Zone launch programme
Zetteler supports Creative Enterprise Zone launch programme
We’re very happy to announce that Zetteler has been invited to support the GLA on the Mayor of London’s Creative Enterprise Zone (CEZ) programme – a major, London-wide initiative establishing dedicated areas of the city for artists and creative businesses. Launched in 2018, the programme is designed to provide creatives working in specific neighbourhoods the affordable space, skills and support they need for their businesses to thrive, while engaging communities in creative programmes and developing proactive approaches to local policy.
In the next two years, the established CEZs in Croydon, Haringey, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Waltham Forest and Hackney/Tower Hamlets will be joined by more areas around London. We’re very excited to be helping the GLA as they launch the new CEZs while continuing to invest in the existing zones, protecting and enriching London’s unrivalled creative energy and enterprise – more to come soon!
London’s creative boost
In the next two years, the established CEZs in Croydon, Haringey, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Waltham Forest and Hackney/Tower Hamlets will be joined by more areas around London. We’re very excited to be helping the GLA as they launch the new CEZs while continuing to invest in the existing zones, protecting and enriching London’s unrivalled creative energy and enterprise – more to come soon!
London’s creative boost
Making the data clear, HØLTE are the first kitchen studio to calculate their products CO2-e impact
HØLTE bares all
Kitchen design studio becomes first to reveal carbon data for every product
Kitchen design studio becomes first to reveal carbon data for every product
Ripping out and replacing the kitchen is often top of the to-do list when people buy a new house – and this desire to ‘put your own stamp on the space’ is what keeps many kitchen-design companies in business. It might seem counterintuitive, then, that East London company HØLTE should put planet above profit by publishing full, lifetime emissions data for every one of its products. But that’s exactly what they’ve done, but being radically open about their environmental impact, founders Fi and Tom Ginnett are hoping to help their customers make ecologically informed choices about their kitchens, and aiming to kickstart an industry-wide rethink about how we design, fit and value our kitchens.
Teaming up with the Danish carbon calculator, Målbar, HØLTE have been able to put a meaningful figure to the carbon cost of an average kitchen (we’re talking the equivalent of a Starbucks coffee every day for eight years), and have already use the data to make significant changes to their own business.
Kitchen carbon confidential
Teaming up with the Danish carbon calculator, Målbar, HØLTE have been able to put a meaningful figure to the carbon cost of an average kitchen (we’re talking the equivalent of a Starbucks coffee every day for eight years), and have already use the data to make significant changes to their own business.
Kitchen carbon confidential
Curators Camille Walala (right) and Sarah Ihler-Meyer (left)
Camille Walala at Southbank Centre
Artist co-curates 14th Koestler Arts exhibition
Artist co-curates 14th Koestler Arts exhibition
After its Covid-induced postponement last year, the annual Koestler Arts exhibition at the Southbank Centre is back for a 14th edition, with Camille Walala at the curatorial helm. Camille and her sister, the critic and curator Sarah Ihler-Meyer, have selected over 200 artworks to feature in this year’s show, which is entitled ‘The I and the We’ and runs from 29 October to 5 December.
Showcasing artwork from people within the UK’s criminal justice system, the Koestler Arts national exhibition is quite the challenge to curate – this year alone, there were more than 6,400 pieces submitted for consideration, spanning craft, fine art, music, animation and writing. Walala and Ihler-Meyer have selected works that invoke a strong feeling in the viewer, pieces that, in Camille’s words make you "laugh, cry and smile, sometimes all at once.” From sculpture carved from prison soap to a portrait painted with coffee, the art on display shines a light on the innovation, ingenuity and creative vision to be found in the prison community.
View the exhibition
Showcasing artwork from people within the UK’s criminal justice system, the Koestler Arts national exhibition is quite the challenge to curate – this year alone, there were more than 6,400 pieces submitted for consideration, spanning craft, fine art, music, animation and writing. Walala and Ihler-Meyer have selected works that invoke a strong feeling in the viewer, pieces that, in Camille’s words make you "laugh, cry and smile, sometimes all at once.” From sculpture carved from prison soap to a portrait painted with coffee, the art on display shines a light on the innovation, ingenuity and creative vision to be found in the prison community.
View the exhibition
Seating by Pascal Hien and Mac Collins featured at the Discovered exhibition at the Design Musem.
Discovered’s lasting legacy
Design Museum adds works by Pascal Hien and Mac Collins
Design Museum adds works by Pascal Hien and Mac Collins
Wallpaper* and AHEC’s recent exhibition Discovered: Designers for Tomorrow set out to showcase emerging design talent from around the world, asking participants to create a piece of furniture that responded to their experience of pandemic and isolation. The designs that resulted were remarkable in their variety, creativity and craftsmanship, and two of the 20 pieces exhibited impressed Design Museum director Tim Marlow so much that he chose to induct them into its permanent collection.
UK designer Mac Collins created Concur, a cherry wood twin-set of chair and book rest intended to create a comforting space to which to withdraw from everyday life and find solace in the analogue. Collins’ design is joined in the museum’s collection by Migo 01, German designer Pascal Hien’s brilliantly versatile three-legged stool in oak, which has also been selected for commercial production by Benchmark.
Discover the designs
UK designer Mac Collins created Concur, a cherry wood twin-set of chair and book rest intended to create a comforting space to which to withdraw from everyday life and find solace in the analogue. Collins’ design is joined in the museum’s collection by Migo 01, German designer Pascal Hien’s brilliantly versatile three-legged stool in oak, which has also been selected for commercial production by Benchmark.
Discover the designs
An office worth going back to
Bureau offers ‘third way’ workspace
Bureau offers ‘third way’ workspace
The raging debate about the future of work is showing no signs of abating. Champions of working from home lionise flexibility, productivity, and wellbeing, while office advocates talk about the importance of work/leisure transitions, shared-space idea exchange and in-person bonding. The discussion is often framed as binary, but might both sides be right?
Now open in Design District on Greenwich Peninsula, Bureau is the members’ club and workspace for the creative sector. Offering flexible workspaces including hot-desking zones, fixed desks and micro-studios, Bureau sets out to be the perfect ‘third way’ working environment – combining the autonomy and freedom of home working with the opportunities for collaboration, spontaneous encounters, human contact and idea sharing associated with the office. This, combined with the fact that Bureau occupies two architectural head-turners in the heart of Design District’s dynamic creative community, boasts beautifully considered interiors by Roz Barr, makes that membership starting rate of £80 +VAT a month look very appealing indeed…
Join Bureau
Now open in Design District on Greenwich Peninsula, Bureau is the members’ club and workspace for the creative sector. Offering flexible workspaces including hot-desking zones, fixed desks and micro-studios, Bureau sets out to be the perfect ‘third way’ working environment – combining the autonomy and freedom of home working with the opportunities for collaboration, spontaneous encounters, human contact and idea sharing associated with the office. This, combined with the fact that Bureau occupies two architectural head-turners in the heart of Design District’s dynamic creative community, boasts beautifully considered interiors by Roz Barr, makes that membership starting rate of £80 +VAT a month look very appealing indeed…
Join Bureau
Let’s talk timber
AHEC and Disegno Words on Wood podcast returns for second season
AHEC and Disegno Words on Wood podcast returns for second season
For millennia, humans have turned to wood as a building material, nurturing forests to source timber that could be transformed into buildings ranging from sheds to skyscrapers. Until recently, however, wood has become less popular among architects and designers, who have leaned towards brick, stone, steel and composites such as concrete (which, contrary to the opinions of some, does not grow on trees). With sustainability an increasingly important consideration for construction, wood is at last back in favour, and more architects are waking up to the benefits of building with timber.
AHEC and Disegno’s podcast Words on Wood is the perfect primer for anyone with an interest in the role timber has to play in our built environment. Hosted by Disegno’s ever-thoughtful editors Oli Stratford and India Block, the newly launched second season brings expert insight into the issues associated with wood in design and architecture, from the risks of illegal logging to the wellbeing benefits of timber interiors. Scientists, conservationists, forestry professionals, academics, designers and architects share their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities presented by working with timber. It’s definitely worth the listen – you can find all episodes on Apple, Spotify et al now.
Now listen here
AHEC and Disegno’s podcast Words on Wood is the perfect primer for anyone with an interest in the role timber has to play in our built environment. Hosted by Disegno’s ever-thoughtful editors Oli Stratford and India Block, the newly launched second season brings expert insight into the issues associated with wood in design and architecture, from the risks of illegal logging to the wellbeing benefits of timber interiors. Scientists, conservationists, forestry professionals, academics, designers and architects share their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities presented by working with timber. It’s definitely worth the listen – you can find all episodes on Apple, Spotify et al now.
Now listen here
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