In support of a new exhibition at Morris + Company - Clay | Carbon | Culture - three pieces of mobile exhibition furniture were built to accommodate a collection of over 50 rolled, pinched, poked and teased clay tiles.

The tiles were produced during co-making workshops run as part of practice’s on-going research into co-making as a tool for sustainable design thinking, made as a response to discussions on extraction, ecology and the construction sector’s huge environmental impact. As such the tiles are grouped in the themes of Extraction, Co-Making and Ecology; with the latter two groups displayed around a maker’s table and hung on an A-frame bug house to be installed outside and occupied by Hackney insects, plants, lichen, bees, mosses and more.

The tile makers, a group of young Hackney residents, considered the carbon cost and environmental impact of firing clay when choosing whether to fire their creation, or leave it as an unaltered, reworkable material. Their justifications and thoughts are displayed alongside the tiles on the original post-it notes – we particularly love one student’s declaration not to fire, as ‘the Earth is our only home’.