Common Practice exists to reconnect people to the productive landscapes that surround them.
From historical land practices to innovations in engineering, social justice movements to ecological complexity, we seek to understand how the world around us has been made and what needs to be considered today as we continually remake it.
Our core objectives are:
- Enhance the accessibility of productive landscapes
- Enhance the cultural legibility of productive landscapes
- Boost the cultural legibility of global supply chains and their social and environmental impact.
- Help to transition local material cultures from one that is over-reliant on extractive, carbon intensive and culturally reductive supply chains towards a plurality of just, regenarative and resilient exchanges between people and place.
Our practice developed out of the experiences and lessons gained by living with, in and from our productive material landscapes.
We came together in 2020 at the Architectural Association’s Hooke Park, designing and making a timber house from the materials that grew in the place we momentarily got to call home. Lessons from the forest which taught of ecology, industry and social relations all worked to further root our methodologies around access through design. Living in and working with a productive ecosystem, we witnessed the vital relationships that exist between materials, landscapes, cultures and craft. We see these multitudes working in conjunction as instruments for meaningful design.
We exist through collaboration, constantly formulating new modes of practice in response to the particular circumstances we’re working in.
We’re always interest in expanding this network of relations, which we see as a common in itself. Got ideas for a project or collaboration?
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