Project updates!

How time flies!

We're at the halfway point in the Living Density Exhibition and forum, and its only getting better!

What else have we been up to?
-we entered the formshift competition
-Rachel attended the Tumbleweed Tiny House workshop with Jay Shafer, and learned an enormous amount about the details of building and designing a tiny home
-Scott attended the Living Density Forum, and learned all about.. well- I'd like to hear it from him:)
-we held a potluck: sparsely attended, but Jay and Mik from the workshop came by. Lots of lively conversation was to be had.
-we're developing an entry for the prefab 2020 competition
-we're continually refining our design, based on input from different people and different experiences

We're at the gallery Monday Wednesday and Friday from 11 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 6 pm. There will also be an end-party, which is sure to be a blast. That's on the 22nd. We'll see you there!

Jay Shafer and Living Density

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvsWuWNUM

I'm getting all pumped up for Jay Shafer's visit to Vancouver, on May 9 and the workshop he'll be holding at Emily Carr University. Designing Tiny Homes is something that's pretty hard to find proper instruction in, in a University context (unless of course you were lucky enough to be in that 3rd year class with Christian!)

Also that weekend is the Living Density forum at Grace Gallery, as part of the Exhibition our project will be participating in. Our group is very excited about all the pros who will be giving talks that day.

The Economist profiles the US tiny home movement

The tiny house movement continues to gain more and more attention from mainstream popular media!

It's a very short article, but the Economist has such large distribution that it's nice to see.
It specifically quotes the founder of Tiny Texas Houses and Tumbleweed Tiny House company.

The comments on this article include some intelligent discussion on land and current outrageous housing sizes. But they also show people who can't seem to believe anyone could live in a tiny house comfortably for long periods of time, which just goes to show that there is a long way to go before people will change their mindset.