Booming Brilliant at Bouw met Bamboe
By Gemma Thomas In June 2024, I headed to Rotterdam with my friend, colleague, and collaborator Orit Azaz to attend the Bouw met Bamboe. What is Bouw met Bamboe? A programme pulled together by a team of architects and engineers: Atelier Nomadic, Maria Piels architect, Summum and Walden. “Bouw met Bamboe! was the first symposium […]
Booming Brilliant: our first podcast from the European Bamboo Expo 2024
In May 2024, Gemma headed to Dortmund for a second time for the second European Bamboo Expo. Details of the programme and magazine featuring the programme: European Bamboo Expo 2024 (yumpu.com). It was two days of networking and inspiration with some of the world’s bamboo community. In this, the first episode of the Booming Brilliant […]
Brilliant Bamboo Workshops June 24
We had a fantastic time at Keele University for the Next Generation Travel Group: Study Experiences Earth Summit on Monday 24 June. It was a jampacked schedule where we got to meet approx.160 young people and their teachers and joined by a range of colleagues locally: Thomas Guilbert-Newell from Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Alana Wheat from […]
Why Stoke (& Staffordshire)
Typed by Gemma Some of the thoughts and musings here about why here for me, and maybe for the co-directors are work in-progress, and always uncovering additional layers of our history, our present and ambition for the future to build and connect to. When writing the words and meaning for the website, I was keen […]
Exploring the European Bamboo Expo
By Gemma: Last year Dortmund hosted the first European Bamboo Expo. Hans Friedrich opened the Expo for Bamboologic and used an image of our partners #ImagineBamboo as part of the Commonwealth Games. I loved being amongst an international community of bamboo experts and enthusiasts. Our collaborator, Michael Brisbane was also in attendance, and we heard […]
Making of Brilliant Bamboo.
After the finale of the collaboration between Imagineer, Orit, and Appetite in March 2023. It was clear from the engagement through the work of the projects that there was a range of interest…
