LOCALTALKS - BUILDING WITH EARTHBAGS

LOCALTALKS, conversations about green design. Our first event, themed BUILDING WITH EARTHBAGS, was held as a webinar on the 17th of June 2020, presented by Felix Holland and Edson Agume directly from Mustardseed Junior School in Sentema, Uganda. This kindergarten and primary school, designed and built by Localworks, is currently under construction using the earthbag technology as well as a series of other inventive eco-friendly materials and appropriate technologies. Buildings made of earthbags represent an interesting way of using non-stabilised earth without having to face the challenges of formwork and of relying on a relatively simple form of manual labour. Using material excavated on site, mixed with sand, filled and compacted into woven polypropylene bags made in Uganda and tied together using barbed wire, this technology represents a particularly local and green type of building – a suitable showcase for what LOCALTALKS is all about and as such an ideal topic for our first event.