The world is broken because a quarter or half of the people who die every year die from being poor. They have more children so they are sure of having some reach adulthood, and the resulting overpopulation is starving them in many countries. This is an oversimplification but is the basic mess. Utopian visions exist [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]