Island Futures: Learning Day How four key minerals and plants have shaped our material world, from the food we eat to the buildings we make.

Join Material Cultures for a day of interactive, exploratory learning hosted by five leading practitioners - artists, makers, writers, land guardians, and natural builders. Together, participants will trace how everyday resources like clay, sugar, timber, and banana plants fueled unequal colonial trades between the UK and the Caribbean, and explore how they have shaped our material world - from the food we eat to the buildings we make.

Working with their bodies and minds, participants will imagine and inhabit future worlds in which these relationships and processes are reconfigured.

The journey of these plants and minerals to materials is complex. It involves fractured communities, disrupted ecosystems, and colonial trade routes that have shaped how we relate to the spaces and places we inhabit. How do we honour land and material through regenerative practices?

Throughout the day participants can expect workshops, grounding, and reflecting on the journey of plant > plantation> material, in collaboration with experienced facilitators, fellow participants, and the Material Cultures team.

There are five workshops running throughout the day. As a participant, you will attend one workshop in the morning and a different workshop in the afternoon.

Workshops:

• Clay Plastering with Annabel Cameron-Duff
• Clay Vessels with Bisila Noha
• Weaving with Mollie McMillen
• Writing with Sam Siva
• Building with Resolve Collective

The learning day is free, but space is limited and available via application.