Ben Bridgens

May 21, 2026

Textile Waste for Future Feedstock

Textile Waste to Future Feedstock presents a visual manifesto for the future of textile waste in North East England. Whilst identifying the challenges and complexity of […]
May 21, 2026

Fungi Forum: 26th May 2026

Fungi Forum, a unique artwork installation, designed, developed and grown by Artist and Newcastle University Final Year Art Student Emily Ford, will take centre stage at a […]
April 2, 2025

RE:TV Growing Materials from Mycelium

Dr Jane Scott (HBBE, Living Textiles) describes the potential for mycelium materials to revolutionize sustainable manufacturing and create a future with no waste: https://www.re-tv.org/articles/jane-scott
March 3, 2025

Opportunity: artist commission

Creative Central NCL is supporting a new artistic commission in partnership with The Coach House and HBBE. The Coach House, a historic brick building near Charlotte Square […]
February 13, 2025

OME wall testing: The Corn-Wall prototype

The OME’s demountable wall system is being used to test the thermal performance of an experimental wall system, which combines commercially available extruded clay blocks with […]
February 11, 2025

Healing Masonry featured in ‘Material Source’

Healing Masonry has been featured in Material Source’s annual guide to biomaterial and waste-based products! Healing Masonry introduces a blend of biological self-healing systems into masonry materials, presenting a […]
January 27, 2025

Welcome Evgueni Filipov

Discipline hopping Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow Evgueni Filipov joins HBBE. Evgueni Filipov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the […]