This document outlines the basic elements of the Hexayurt Shelter in general, and one specific configuration suitable for use in Haiti. It’s 17 pages, and covers a lot of the hurricane resistance features that we envisage using in Haiti this year. The Hexayurt in Haiti Or get the PDF version of the Hexayurt in Haiti. [...]
Read more →Buttered Side Down’s Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps were on the telly! (iplayer link, Click, 31st of January 2010, 11m05s) We just did a little revision of the document, tidied up a few bits. You can see the full document here.
Read more →@dougald and I (@leashless) discuss What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?, which looks at the Dark Mountain Project and the Hexayurt Project in the same glance, and does some thinking about the future of the village in the process.
Read more →Hi everybody! #ccpeople is a project to visualize the global crisis camp. Here’s how it works. At each Crisis Camp, take pictures and upload them to Twitter using TwitPic or something similar. Give each tweet the following format: URL – First name @twitter_id “task at crisis camp” #ccpeople #cchaiti #location_tag Here’s an example: http://twitpic.com/10h7z5 – [...]
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Read more →Please come to #CrisisCampLDN on Saturday. It’s five minutes walk from Holborn, nice venue, working wifi, and a coffee machine that sounds like a diesel generator. Directions and register at http://crisiscamphaiti-london.eventbrite.com/. Lots of great people are coming – and please click on that link, I’m proud of that little project. For everybody at the camp, [...]
Read more →Hexayurt Country, the Hexayurt Project plan for relief and reconstruction in Haiti got massive online press this weekend. Dangerous Minds, Boing Boing, Make (particularly meaningful to me!) and LewRockwell.com all covered either the shelter or the entire plan.
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