Building for Nature: Plant & Bug Habitats
About this Event
🤝 Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring how we can create spaces that support thriving insect and plant life in the Ouseburn Valley even as part of built structures.
🌿 Led by local rewilding group Wild Ouseburn, we'll learn about the importance of multi-species habitats and discover how different materials, structures, and environments support different species to survive. Through making and experimentation, you'll help design and build habitat features for the Pavilion while gaining practical knowledge that you can apply in your own garden, balcony, or local green space.
Whether you're curious about rewilding, interested in supporting pollinators, or simply enjoy learning through making, this workshop offers a chance to connect with nature, meet like-minded people, and contribute to a more biodiverse local area.
🌱 Part of our Community Build Programme, this creative session is rooted in skill-sharing, collaboration, and making with purpose. Come meet like-minded people, explore sustainable building practices, and help create a shared space for the Ouseburn Festival and local communities joining us.
No experience necessary. Just bring yourself, wear clothes you don't mind getting dusty, and come ready to make, learn, and connect.
All tools, materials, and guidance provided.
🪚 Please note, this session is part of a community build programme taking place between 21st of June to 1st of July, you will have to complete a volunteer form to complete your attendance. You can do so, as well as choose to join more sessions via the form: https://forms.gle/5Ds7fNu6QkZFfeFk6
Location: Woods Pottery Site, off Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, NE1 2NP
Please arrive promptly.
About the project: Pavilion of the Commons
Pavilion of the Commons is a community-led design-and-build project that brings people together through collective craft and natural building. In the lead-up to the Ouseburn Festival, participants will collaboratively create a small temporary woodland pavilion using natural, seasonal, and reclaimed materials through a series of free, hands-on sessions open to all skill levels.
The project focuses on learning through making, building practical skills, confidence, and a sense of belonging. During the festival, the pavilion will become a shared space for craft workshops, gatherings, and skill-sharing nature-themed activities, celebrating collective creativity and the value of working together in communion with nature and local resources.
About Common C:
Common C is an open collective of doers, initiated by Roxana Caplan. We bring people together to creatively celebrate our connection to nature, land and one another through craft, collaboration and collective care.
Our mission is to connect and empower individuals and communities through creative opportunities, building skills, nurturing nature and shared resilience.
Where is it happening?
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