Become part of the community at Materials Club

Materials Club has been active as a community-led research group in Birmingham since 2019, started by Sarah King and Ruth Claxton as part of the program at STEAMhouse. Now in its third year, it has become a creative-led research space exploring questions related to our ecological future through deep material practices.

We support and cultivate projects that look to use materials in new, different, and sustaining ways. This includes working with waste, nature, and within the values of circular design. We encourage collaboration and open conversation allowing new knowledge to be shared and developed collectively. This is a space to be inspired, learn, engage, and become part of a growing community.

Materials Club Talks invite practitioners to share new and interesting materials practices. Each month a different STEAMhouse member will invite a guest to share their materials practice. Their presentation will be followed by an open discussion that will delve deeper into our guest's personal values and motivations for their work, with a focus on materiality and our current global context.

Each month the event will be held online via Zoom or in person at STEAMhouse in Birmingham. You are invited to join us from 6pm for a short introduction before our speaker takes the stage. This is followed by an informal conversation facilitated by our evening's chosen co-host.

Anyone can join us at Materials Club and its completely free! So if you are an individual, business, artist, designer, materials scientist, student, academic, maker or anyone else in between, you are welcome.

Come and join the community!