This is a collaboration between Flimsy Works and artist and researcher Georgemma Hunt to design furniture out of fenland-derived materials for the Wildlife Trust and as part of a Summer School for STORE Projects.
Based at Ramsey Heights Nature Reserve, this project explores the use of materials that can be grown in the fenland landscape of East Anglia. It demonstrates how design can support paludiculture - the cultivation of crops on rewetted peatland - as well as other regenerative land practices that restore biodiversity, increase flood resilience and lock carbon in the ground.
In 2026, we guided local young people through the building of a reconfigurable display table made from a kit of parts. The configuration of components can adapt to create one long table with display plinths on top, a single table and wall-mounted pegboard, or a large table. Each element is a different material, together showcasing a fenland-based regenerative material palette, whilst also telling a story of time - with materials that take longer to grow and harvest at the base and younger materials at the top. These were: clay bricks; oak legs; alder trusses; birch tops; willow pegs; and reed trays.
In 2025, we built stools with fibre particle boards, which we made small samples of using a heat press to test different colours and matrixes of wetland fibres. We debarked and prepared coppiced willow legs for use as feet and backrests - both to protect the stools from the damp ground and to give each piece a distinctive character.