Garden. Man Who Grows Natural Chairs. Full Grown is headed by Designer and Artist Gavin Munro.
Inspired by the beauty of nature, geometry and the desire to work with wood, he has spent the last 10 years studying and developing the techniques and craft of Tree Shaping and Botanical Craftsmanship. "In essence its an incredibly simple art. You start by training and pruning young tree branches as they grow over specially made formers. At certain points we then graft them together so that the object grows in to one solid piece – I’m interested in the way that this is like an organic 3D printing that uses air, soil and sunshine as its source materials. After it’s grown into the shape we want, we continue to care for and nurture the tree, while it thickens and matures, before harvesting it in the Winter and then letting it season and dry.
Here in the Furniture Field there are Limited Editions of Chairs, Tables, Lamps and Mirrors growing into shape and maturing. I'd dreamed of going off-grid and it was perfect ... until it wasn't. When did I first realise I had made a huge mistake?
Was it when I almost missed a work deadline because the cafe wifi kept cutting out? Or maybe it was when I looked around me in the street and saw more mobility scooters than people my own age. Perhaps it was the moment I realised that checking out of city life and going off-grid was also a hugely performative act, that seeking strong community connections and greater depth could be a shallow form of virtue signalling and obnoxious posturing. The rural hinterland town I ended up in offered no shortage of people who seemed to be shouting, in the quietest way possible, about their disdain for 21st century modern life.
I will never forget having to climb over a shirtless man meditating – or was it posing? How did I end up here? My life, my work, my schedule was packed, and I became fixated on this notion of slowing down so I could tend to a proper veggie patch and connect with nature. The town was charming to a fault. DIY. YOURHOME-6-HousingOfFuture-1-AdaptingClimateChange-(4Dec13).pdf. Top 5 signs your ancestors were geniuses at beating the heat. Before air conditioning in the latter half of the 20th century, humankind didn't just suffer in the heat.
We met the heat with creativity and a whole lot of cool. Let me just say it: I love AC. I even own a T-shirt with an AC unit on it. I love my AC that much. Yes, AC feels good, but the fact is, it isn't all that great for the environment. That's why I was so impressed to discover that the generation before AC was implementing lifestyle climate hacks and wide-scale architectural and infrastructure changes that truly give me and all of us AC addicts a run for my air-conditioning-loving money. Our ancestors were smart! The top five signs your hot weather ancestors were complete geniuses at beating the heat. He had an epiphany while living in a dumpster. And it could help change the future of housing. He was living in a dumpster when the idea first came to him.
His name's Jeff Wilson — Dr. Jeff Wilson, actually. He's a professor at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, known fondly on campus as "Professor Dumpster. " Photo by Jeff Wilson/Wikimedia Commons. Living Building Challenge Case Studies - International Living Future Institute.