Learn about Charlie O'Geen's work on fabric-formed poured earth. O'Geen, an instructor at U-M's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, will present on his work with Poured Earth Collaborative (PEC) using fabric-formed poured earth to create a site-derived, no-carbon-emission construction option.

To address human-made global warming, PEC aims to resist mass production and building commodification by creating spatial divisions out of the land itself. Their approach begins with site and material, working with diagrams, models, and prototypes, and returning to the facts of site-derived building methods to avoid carbon impacts of materials and their displacement.

Material Conversations are monthly informal discussions to learn about materials research at the University of Michigan.