School of Exchange

School of Exchange: Workshops by Students of the Inaugural March Design Practice Course

This series of student-led workshops invites you to explore speculative creative exchanges through hands-on engagement with materials, techniques, and ideas. Rooted in an ethos of reciprocity, repair, and reimagining, each session acts as a micro-laboratory—where knowledge is exchanged, cultures cross-pollinate, and the environment becomes both context and collaborator.

Together, these workshops form a space for cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaborative making in response to ecological challenges and resilient futures.

LIVING ARCHIVES 16.6.25 11-3pm
Soil functions as a living archive, preserving traces of natural processes and human histories within its layered structure. This workshop invites participants to engage more deeply with soil as both material and medium—offering space to reflect on its vital, yet often overlooked, role in sustaining ecosystems and human life.

RESHAPING THE NATURAL 17.6.25 11-3pm
Through the hands-on making of seaweed bricks, this workshop explores environmental challenges along the Northeast coast of Kent. As part of an ongoing research project, participants will experiment with natural brick formulations that respond to the excessive accumulation of seaweed in the region—reshaping waste into resource, problem into possibility.

SOWING SEEDS 18.6.25 11-3pm
This cross-cultural workshop connects London and Bangladesh through collaborative fabric-making, climate resilience, and diasporic storytelling. Rooted in the Bangladeshi textile tradition, the project embeds vetiver seeds into discarded fabrics—transforming textile waste into tools for riverbank repair. The interactive exhibition and making session invites participants to engage with fabric pieces as living archives—carrying stories of migration, circularity, and mutual care across borders.

THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CHUTE // LIVING LITE 19.6.25 11-3pm
Waste is not just a material problem—it’s a cultural one. This workshop invites participants to reprocess food packaging into functional, illuminating objects. Through melting, braiding, and reshaping, discarded packaging is transformed into lamps or small household artifacts.

This is about more than keeping waste out of landfill—it’s about revaluing it. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their relationship with discard, and the potential for waste to become a site of craft, care, and conversation.

EXHBITION 20.6.25 11-3pm

The workshops will culminate in a curated live exhibition, opening the exchange to a wider audience and inviting shared reflection on the possibilities of speculative, sustainable futures.

Featuring workshops and research by:
Hyeongji Yang, Ceylan Cecen, Alyesha Choudhury, Cassidy Lowe, Madge Jingchu Zhuo, and Liliia Kuksina

Workshop details and the full programme will be shared via @school.of.exchange on instagram as information is confirmed.
Entry is free and no advance booking is required.
If you have access needs or questions about attending, please DM us on Instagram.