Over the summer of 2024, Grymsdyke Farm organises a four-week workshop for a select group of students. This workshop is led by four designer-educators, each focusing on different materials and processes: Attua Aparicio, Marco Campardo, Studio Glithero and Guan Lee. Each week-long workshop includes developing designs with tutors, guided walks to study and understand the landscape, fostering site-specific and process-driven design responses, and talks and discussions. Each workshop is individually tailored based on the material and industry local to the farm, chosen by the invited design tutor. The aim of the project is to explore not only the processes of learning through design, but also how individuals can learn from each other, from the environment, and through making.

Each of the four designers is approaching this theme in their own design language and through their personal research. Attua Aparicio is exploring different ways of working as a collective to make planters that combine different colours of clay, through a principle of minimal intervention. Marco Campardo is investigating unorthodox ways to use wax to obtain vases in cast glass. Glithero is conducting research into material spilling using plaster. Guan Lee is exploring how a material with a language of its own can be translated onto another material through casting; for instance, how wax could become cast metal. The final result will be a series of objects co-created by designers-tutors and the students.

The resulting collection will be exhibited during the London Design Festival 2024 at the Brompton Design District. The exhibition will take place in Gallery 7, Cromwell Place, with the aim of celebrating process driven approaches to design.