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WE’RE HIRING!

We’re looking for two new people to join the Yes Make team at Tipping Point East in East London:

Senior Designer-Maker
A hands-on design and fabrication role working across projects from concept and technical design through to making and installation. We’re looking for someone comfortable moving between Rhino, the workshop, construction sites and client meetings, with strong experience building medium to large-scale structures.

Yard & Warehouse Manager
A practical role taking responsibility for the day-to-day running and development of our reclaimed materials warehouse and yard. You’ll help manage how materials arrive, are processed, catalogued, stored and ultimately put back to use, as well as supporting our Material Apprentices.

Both roles are based at Tipping Point East, E16, London’s largest circular economy construction hub.

We’re a small, hands-on team working across design, fabrication, construction and material reuse. We’re interested in people who are curious about materials and want to help us find better ways of building with what already exists.

Applications close 9 October 2026 and may close early depending on application numbers.

Full role descriptions + how to apply via the link in bio.

Come work with us!

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🔴 age lines: NOW IN PRINT 🔴

and you’re invited.

In October 2025, ISO Collective launched Age Lines, an exhibition exploring the different lenses through which we experience architecture, and how an ageing society might shape the spaces, places and communities we design for.

Following contributions from over 100 people and the response to the exhibition, Age Lines has taken on a new form: a publication bringing together the conversations, creative work and reflections that emerged from the project.

📌Join us for the launch of the publication, as we continue the conversations behind Age Lines and bring its stories into a new space.

📌RSVP via the link in bio.

🧱In collaboration with
@resolvecollective × @_materialstore_ × @tippingpointeast

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Thank you to everyone who came to our @learnings_unlearnings workshop sharing the approaches we’ve been developing for @civic_square Design & Construction Club at the @learnings_unlearnings symposium at the @lsofarch

So many joyful interpretations of ‘Reveal’, ‘Enhance’, ‘Monitor’ and ‘Highlight’ - the themes we’ve been exploring with the DCC young people this year - all through the medium or reused materials:
Red woollen thread upcycled from the @hayward.gallery 🧶
Sequoia from a felled tree at an arboretum from @_materialstore_ via @yesmakeldn @tippingpointeast 🪵

What wonderful, spontaneous and playful creations! 📍♦️🧱🔺🧮🚩🖍️✂️📌

It can be nerve-wracking sharing approaches with other architecture and design educators, but this group were so kind, generous and fun, we needn’t have been. @lucyeccles90 and I learned lots too.

Thank you @kieran.mahon @nicantaki Meike and @_baxendale for including us and for bringing together so many interesting practitioners 💥

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Come and join the @sosnetwork9 workshop kicking off @liveseyexchange2 from 01/09/26
Taking reclaim wood from organisations like @selcobw Old @souvenirscenicstudios Bermondsey to build planters, bug hotels , birds nest and much more
Changing the ecosystem around OKR

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This year, our Free Books Festival furniture is being brought to life by @ResolveCollective!

We took a little peek behind the scenes at @tippingpointeast with the lovely @celinetopsakal who gave us a run down of what RESOLVE is all about ✨

RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective combining architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They’ve delivered projects, workshops, publications, and talks across the world, all working toward just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. Their practice centres on designing with and for young people and under-represented groups, using ‘design’ as both a physical and systemic tool for political and socio-economic change.

They’ve worked with institutions including @palaisdetokyo, @qattanfoundation, Het Nieuwe Instituut, @vamuseum and a variety of public sector clients like the London boroughs of Lambeth and Croydon.

We’ve partnered with Resolve to bring some community-crafted furniture into the space, and we can’t wait for you to settle in 💚

Tickets are almost gone, so make sure to grab yours now while you still can via the link in our bio! 💫🎟️

#resolvecollective #freebookscampaign #freebooksfestival #londonfestival #bookfestival

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JAM-PACKED WEEKEND LOADINGGGG 🔌

We have just a handful of tickets remaining on our website, so get yours before they go! We’re also accepting walk ups on the day, so if you don’t manage to get a ticket online you can try at the door - subject to capacity but we’ll always try our best to make sure you get to experience the festival 📚💚

Who’s coming? See you thereeeee

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Have you been to @tippingpointeast? It is a remarkable new material reuse facility and centre of ecological architectural design and research in east London. 95% of the materials used in the main office, designed by @material_cultures, are recycled from other construction projects. Here's a rundown of the photos:

Pic 1. Window and door frames made with water wood from the Bridgerton sets.

Pic 2. A meeting room window made using the round glass from an old table top.

Pic 3. Elton John's old kitchen! (A small part of it at least) has been remade as the office coffee point.

Pic 4. @sumsais speaking about the work of Material Cultures in front of a huge wall of biomaterial samples (construction materials that have come from plants, not mining or drilling).

Pic 5. Structural columns made from discard Cross Laminated Timber. I have never seen small pieces of CLT used like this. Very smart.

Pic 6. @resolvecollective have also established the @_materialstore_ here taking waste materials from cultural institutions like bits of exhibition and finding new uses for them in the community. Here are fragments of a @rosa_johan show waiting for a new life.

Pic 7. And outside @yesmakeldn have a massive yard where they are processing high quality second hand construction materials. The pic shows an enormous piece of sequoia which is gradually being turned into new boards.

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Networks of Care is a cultural assembly of voices from our ecosystem. For this INBETWEEN edition at the @icalondon we presented a series of publications from people and organisations that embody the spirit of self-publishing and DIY culture — centred on fostering care, imagination and resistance.

This installation is a prototype, still being developed and still finding its shape. It has been co-designed and co-built alongside our collaborators and peers — @resolvecollective. All materials were sourced from @_materialstore_ a project by RESOLVE that is building community around material justice and furthering the redistribution of materials and resources to historically marginalised communities.

A special thanks to RESOLVE Collective, @janadardouk, @celinetopsakal, @david.gosta.dawson, @tamara.rabea, @isabellakajiwara and @skindeepmag for their contributions in developing what Networks of Care can be.

Featuring works by: @acvmagazine, @arccamagazine, @angela_photographs, @eyesoremagazine, @_emmalwarren_, @freedom_balance, @sahra_hersi, @hark1karan, @nabil_alkinani, @pesovisuals, @sissyanarchy, @aspaceforusnow, @skindeepmag and @tamara.rabea

📸 @350jam

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A very special trip to @tippingpointeast yesterday with lots of @_zetteler_ friends old and new, thanks to everyone who came with us and asked all their questions 🩵

Honestly, in times like these, visiting a project filled with hope, determination, love, grit, action, community, care and collaboration is so important! I am so utterly grateful to the teams at @yesmakeldn @resolvecollective and @material_cultures both for making TPE exist (this stuff doesn’t happen by magic - even if they make it look like it is - it is hard work!) but also for trusting us to help them tell its many, many stories in partnership with their teams. This is hope in action.

Do follow their feed. Book in trips to visit with your friends and businesses! It’s a charity so there are small fees - but that money goes to funding this miracle of a project and it’s a big effort to welcome people on site and deliver tours 💛 Support them however you can.

Massive love to everyone involved.
Massive love to everyone who joined us.
Watch this space!

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40% of tickets remaining 🌀 Join us for the launch of our latest trilogy publication INBETWEEN at @icalondon with an evening of film, conversation, sound and immersive installation.

Bringing together Jermaine Francis, Nate Agbetu, Emma Warren, Nabil Al-Kinani, Ella Barrett and Connor Rankin, the programme explores what it means to live today, a time shaped by acute flux and deep stagnation, by tension, friction and paradox, where the boundary between the real and the surreal continues to blur.

We will also be screening The Authors of The Estate by Freedom & Balance. In room two we’ll host Networks of Care, an interactive installation in collaboration with MATERIAL STORE, featuring a soundscape by Gludo.

🔗 Link in bio for tickets. Please message us if there are any financial barriers for you not to be able to attend.

Design by: @anya_land & @niamh.thompson

Featuring: @jermainefrancisstudio, @nateagbetu, @ellatembarrett, @_emmalwarren_ , @nabil_alkinani , @connorrankin, @_materialstore_, @resolvecollective, @freedom_balance, @__gludo__

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Tipping Point East is the the UK’s first circular construction hub opened in London’s Royal Docks last month. By a small collective including Yes Make, Resolve Collective, and Material Cultures

Waste from Construction makes up 62% of the UK’s waste. Over 100 million tonnes a year. London alone throws away 10 million. It’s cheaper to run a digger through a building than to store what’s inside it.

It’s taking the so called underdogs to make a stand and show how little changes can help with taking the climate crisis serious.

#Architecture #Design #tippingpointeast #construction #circulareconomy

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