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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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