£30, booking required
Join Founder James Marr for a unique workshop during London Design Festival and learn the art of building with bamboo! This workshop will cover key techniques and the material properties of bamboo.
The class will offer an in-depth look into Bamboo Bicycle Club and its global projects. You'll gain insights into bamboo as a material, its properties, and how to effectively incorporate it into your designs.
In the second part of the workshop, you'll get hands-on experience building and creating everyday objects with bamboo. Our ethos is to encourage hands-on interaction with materials, enabling participants to understand their properties and workability, which can be incorporated into future practices.
Take advantage of this opportunity to explore the versatility of bamboo and enhance your design skills with practical knowledge and experience!
Try your hand at the bamboo-building techniques that underpin the Bamboo Bicycle Club’s ethos. These workshop sessions will give you a taste of working and designing with bamboo material. The team will demonstrate unique bamboo building techniques, and guide and support you to build your first bamboo product successfully.
You will build confidence in working with bamboo as a versatile material; gaining skills in sizing, sanding, and shaping.
ABOUT Bamboo Bicycle Club
Bamboo Bicycle Club empower people to build their own bikes. Founded in London, they've grown into a global community that champions innovative and sustainable cycling.
We selected bamboo for bike construction because it's accessible and suitable. Like timber, bamboo is readily available and easy to craft with simple tools, making it perfect for quick, DIY bike building. It absorbs road vibrations better than other materials, offers excellent strength, and has a natural aerodynamic shape. Additionally, bamboo captures CO2 as it grows, storing carbon as you ride.
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