Adobe Brick Workshop at Collard City Growers Open Hours

Join us for a workshop on making adobe-style bricks using local clays and responsibly harvested plant matter from abundant non-native species with FSD.TEMP, a group which explores the accessibility of complex and expensive technologies through experimentation, hyper-local materials, and community collaboration.

Join FSD.TEMP for a free workshop at Collard City Growers! In this workshop, participants will learn how to make adobe-style bricks using local clays and responsibly harvested plant matter from abundant non-native species such as japanese knotweed and phragmites. Participants are free to take their bricks home, or to leave them to dry for PT. 2 of our brick series, BYOB (Bring Your Own Brick), a building activation using a low-cost brick-placing robot to build a wall and planter in the backyard of NATURE Lab.

This is the first of two events from FSD.TEMP hosted by the NATURE lab, made possible by the Capital Region Arts Thrive & Grow grant.  Arts Thrive & Grow is funded by New York State & the New York State Council on the Arts, with support from Governor Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, and local elected officials, including Senators Jake Ashby and Patricia Fahy and Assemblymembers Scott H. Bendett, John T. McDonald III, Angelo Santabarbara, Phil Steck, and Mary Beth Walsh.

About FSD.TEMP:

FSD.TEMP is a temporary creative group exploring the accessibility of complex and expensive technologies through experimentation, hyper-local materials, and community collaboration.  

Julian Goldman is a founding industrial designer at Fun Stuff Design in Troy, NY and an internationally exhibiting designer/artist focused on the point at which novel technology and materials touch society. 

Claire Moriarty is a designer, researcher & educator combining advanced technology, aesthetics & responsive systems. Her work centers on the fabrication of architectural-scale, multi-media interventions. She is a lecturer at the RPI School of Architecture. 

Dierdre Shea is a multidisciplinary object-designer investigating meaningful ecosystems in product and manufacturing through sustainable materials, creative experimentation and novel technology. She is a founding industrial designer at Fun Stuff Design.

Riley Studebaker is a lecturer at the RPI School of Architecture where he focuses on robotic labor embedded in the built environment.