"Working with the Grand Designs team over the last 4 years has been a real pleasure. Kevin McCloud is passionate about how architecture can so radically influence our quality of life and connect us to landscapes. The team in general use the program to celebrate human creative potential, determination and the diversity with which we can all express ourselves. After 200 hundred hours of filming, they have the mammoth task of reducing that material to 47minutes of narrative for the viewing masses and we were pleased to see how explicitly they used the show to support Lammas residents efforts and the whole One Planet concept. In fact Kevin himself is part of an NGO that originated the term One Planet footprint in the 1990s at a UN level.
The best thing about the experience was chatting abour re-wilding between shots with Kevin and the fab deli lunches the camera crew provided from their expense budget. The worst thing was reading abusive tweets as the show was broadcast; and the unexpected thing was the love and integrity in the relationships we developed with the film crew: big thanks to Max, Claire, Mike, Phil, Tom, Hannah, Dai and the sound men.
The episode featuring Lammas is on the Channel 4 website and youtube. If you are interested in our approach and ideas you may like to join Simon and I on our 'Wild by Design' permaculture and natural building internship this spring and our shorter certified course to support OPD people landing in fields. More info is on our website www.beingsomewhere.net."
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