What we learned this year :

• Cob (clay + sand + water + straw)

• Bottle-bricks (upcycling glass!)

• Properties of clay (hydrophilic, hypoallergenic, hygroscopic, repairable)

• Material reclamation (metal roofing, windows from old buildings)

• Material lifecycles (sand into glass into sand again)

• Material deathcycles (vinyl production into off-gassing into toxic leeching)

• Material kinship (deep time thinking, knowing your source, material interactions)

• Cob experiment! (using dried corn husks as fiber)

• Lime cycle experiment! (turning oyster shells into lime for plastering)

• Plastering pigment experiment! (blue plaster using blue sand from blue bottles)