Module-ready summary
BADA 'Hilbre Bouymaster's House & Workshop offers off-grid, tide led teaching and research space on Hilbre Island. Access is on foot and requires careful planning around tides, self-sufficiency, and shared stewardship. The site supports interdisciplinary study of intertidal ecosystems, island-built heritage and cultural histories with particular interest in speculative futures for time UK Islands
Suggested formats
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Field studio (1-3 days): Observation + documentation + seminar + review
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Research intensive: Site methods + data gathering + reflective writing
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Practice-based residency: Making/prototyping rooted in careful, reversible approaches
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PhD fieldwork: Sustained study periods by arrangement. Example learning outputs
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Tide/time diagrams, transects, field journals and annotated drawing sets
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Speculative scenarios and design research on tiny island futures
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Prototypes or toolkits for stewardship, repair, or low-impact observation
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Research posters, papers, talks, exhibitions, short films or sound works
What we prioritise
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Care-led, low impact work that respects ecological sensitivity
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Interdisciplinary methods and meaningful collaboration
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Outputs that can be shared back (talk, panel set, paper, toolkit, archive contribution).
