I have information overload. Again. Here’s why this is an increasing problem for organizational navigators. If there a billion people with access to publication online or in print, there are one thousand “one in a million” intelligences who’s thinking you can access. Assume you dedicate an hour to each one. That’s 25 working weeks of [...]
Read more →Click to Play Hunger – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 This team envisaged a PCM (Phase Change Material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_Change_Material) blanket which would absorb heat from the sun in the day, and release the stored heat slowly at night to [...]
Read more →Click to Play Cold – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 This simple design for an extremely insulated tent or sleeping tube has several very clever features. Four or more of the two person sleeping modules can be combined to [...]
Read more →Click to Play Hunger – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 This team presented an integrated system of two ideas. The first idea was to take the standard pit latrine which is used by many NGOs in disaster relief and [...]
Read more →Click to Play Thirst – Six Ways To Die Workshop (Formens Hus) – Final Presentation Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 The backpack is designed to carry water in the period immediately after a disaster, before regular water services can be restored or even before water trucks can start to [...]
Read more →Click to Play Final report from the week-long “Six Ways To Die” workshop. http://www.appropedia.org/6WTD_2009 The Hunger team envisaged a “kitchen in a box” system which could be used from the early stages of a crisis through to the transitional housing stage some years after the event. The expandable kitchen includes an energy-efficient wood stove (like [...]
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Read more →Click to Play Site survey and some footage of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) improved winter tent. http://www.emergencyhousing.se/news/six-ways-to-die/ Six ways to die is a an introductory workshop to the Emergency Housing Project and sustainable design in humanitarian relief operations. The workshop takes of with a 24 hour residency in a temporary camp set up [...]
Read more →Click to Play End of the field exercise of the "Six Ways To Die" workshop. http://www.emergencyhousing.se/news/six-ways-to-die/ Six ways to die is a an introductory workshop to the Emergency Housing Project and sustainable design in humanitarian relief operations. The workshop takes of with a 24 hour residency in a temporary camp set up in the forests [...]
Read more →Click to Play Martin Sjöholm of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) explains their design for a flat pack wood burning stove. http://www.emergencyhousing.se/news/six-ways-to-die/ Six ways to die is a an introductory workshop to the Emergency Housing Project and sustainable design in humanitarian relief operations. The workshop takes of with a 24 hour residency in a [...]
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