In July, Ferdinand Saumarez Smith and Gabriel Coleman travelled to the Lake District to present Factum Foundation’s plans for Cylinders Estate at the Langdale Gala, a community-led festival in Dungeon Ghyll.

 Alongside Factum’s stall displaying books and facsimiles, Adam Sutherland, the director of Grizedale Arts, set up a mobile pottery; a pedal wheel on the back of a pick-up truck.

Back at Cylinders, the concrete dairy floor of the Shippon is being removed prior to installing an underfloor-heated concrete surface for the main space, which will be used as a print studio. With the help of ceramicist Michael Eden, the whole of the lower area of brambles has been cut back. Finally, Martyn Hudson and Sebastian Messer from Northumbria University visited with Alan Hathaway, who is about to commence a practice-based PhD on the Merz Barn.