WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test-space in Bristol
Imagining and making new ways to create homes that build social infrastructure and community wealth.
MultiMax: Affordable homes within planetary boundaries
Everyone should have access to a decent, secure home that doesn’t cost the earth. But can the Government’s mission to deliver 1.5 million new homes be done in a way that keeps us within 1.5°C — the scientifically and politically established ‘safe limit’ to avert the worst impacts of climate change?
Introducing MultiMax: a multi-storey, maximum timber construction system demonstrating how low-carbon homegrown timber can be safely and affordably used instead of high-carbon construction materials, so that communities, councils and not-just-for-profit developers can building the homes they need.
HOW WECANMAKE WORKS
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WeCanMake has a people and place-led approach to housing innovation, embedded in and working with the community of a 100-year old council-built estate in Knowle West, Bristol. Our mission is to grow the spaces, tools and capacities to collectively imagine and actively anticipate better community-led ways to do housing. This means more than just generating speculative futures, but making practical glimmers through prototyping and testing out ideas for real so that people can tangibly see and feel how new possibilities might work on the ground.
So we asked ourselves: what if the power and resources to create good homes were in the hands of communities?
