Josh Booth

I'm the community building coordinator at Oxfordshire Community Land Trust, which works to empower local communities across the county to take ownership of land and manage it in ways that are meaningful for them.  My job involves building relationships, capacity and momentum among communities so that they can shape and participate in OCLT's projects. At present, the focus of these projects is affordable housing that places care for both people and planet centre stage.

One big advantage of developing housing on this relatively small, local scale, is that we can do so in an innovative way. So we're experimenting with how we can build in a way that is not just low-carbon, but regenerative, using biobased materials produced locally. Our hope is that by doing this we can demonstrate what a different kind of construction economy might look like – one that takes our planetary limits seriously while also improving human health and wellbeing.