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Fwd: 3d printing houses in shanghai
by Michel Bauwens 08 May '14

08 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Hunting <erichunting(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:33 PM Subject: Re: 3d printing houses in shanghai To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> _______________________________________________________________ Recently, a number of articles and videos about 3D printing of houses in China have gone viral, catalyzing a lot of attention for this very promising subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObzNdyRTBs http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140401-10-completely-3d- printed-houses-appears-in-shanghai-built-in-a-day.html Additionally, another 3D printed building project in the Netherlands is also starting to garner attention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJ6TVJYSdM 3D printing has gained steadily increasing popular interest but the limitation to the production of small artifacts has tended to see it dismissed in significance. And controversial projects, such as the printing of crude guns, have drawn negative attention from easily-spooked and compulsively obstructive government authorities. But with this demonstration of the technology's potential at a relatively large scale people are finally seeing this as something more than a technology novelty. But, to be sure, these projects are still in an experimental stage and the printing techniques still relatively crude. Their most practical early impact is likely to be in low cost and relief housing applications where, confined to the one or two storey dwellings, their structural performance isn't as critical. Being long interested in construction automation and, over this year, working toward establishing the workshop needed for WikiHouse participation, I recently wrote an Open Manufacturing post speculating on the future of WikiHouse and the eventual application of 3D printing. The concept isn't exactly new. Space scientists suggested the sintering of lunar regolith for print-like building construction in space back in the 1960s. This was followed, in the 80s and 90s, by architect Nader Khalili's exploration of solar-thermal vitrification for building construction. The first proposal of a house printing system based on what we currently recognize as a '3D printer' and using masonry materials was the Contour Crafting concept devised at the University of Southern California. Unable to get support in the US, this concept sat on the shelf for some years, the Italian company D-Shape beating them to the first practical demonstration. It appears that the Chinese system is very much lifted from the Contour Crafting concept, though truth be told, Contour Crafting itself was in some ways derivative of mechanical rotary boom-based slip-forming systems developed in the early '80s, if not much earlier, for the production of circular and domed luxury homes. I've long been puzzled by the focus on the notion of printing of houses whole and in-situ by exceptionally large machines. This seems a bit anachronistic to me--a throw-back to the sort of Big Machine futurism illustrated by Metabolist design and the building concepts of Jacque Fresco's Venus Project. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hayWrEZtjqs/TvRXpF_JF4I/AAAAAAAAv2U/LfSf… http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gW-xn71WPPU/Tdgm-U2BGGI/AAAAAAAADZo/rSn6r3torKg/s… The chief problem I see is that the scale of capital investment needed for such elaborate hardware limits its implementation to the largest of corporations and may make it economically unsustainable. Historically, the only disruptive modern innovations in housing technology that have survived to the present day are those which avoided a need for extreme capital investment and a limitation to any specific aesthetic because industrialists have always felt there was insufficient, if any, market for innovative housing. Commercial architecture has often been flamboyantly diverse in its design and technology but, because of the weirdly parasitic interdependence between housing and personal finance and the way the real estate market depends on the continuous ingression of labor into debt to create virtual market value, housing innovation is dogmatically resisted. The real estate market depends on housing being as utterly inefficient as possible--and that's not a technological problem. Across the whole 20th century, thousands of innovations in housing design and technology were experimented with, Modernist designers in particular obsessed with the notion of the industrialization of housing as a means to overcome the modern blight of homelessness. Virtually all these innovations were commercial failures. The things that proved commercially sustainable were those innovations that, for the most part, could remain 'hidden' behind the sheetrock, hence the steady yet largely unperceived evolution of the typical American home toward a composition of high-tech papier mâché. Thus I see the most critical factor for the viability of the 3D printed house being the question of whether it scales to a level of individual, small scale entrepreneurial, local community empowerment. Not a question of innovating housing but rather how it impacts the personal logistics and economics of acquiring shelter. To put it simply, whether we can reduce this production hardware to a physical scale tenable for the small entrepreneur and DIY enthusiast. To make it an owner/build option. Thus in my post I suggested the possibility of employing newly emerged printable and compostable wood/plastic composites with a very light form of large format 3D printer based on the cable-based Stewart platform or Robocrane; http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/robocrane2.cfm With such a more modest machine and more easily handled material a modest scale house can be printed in readily mobile sections in a space the size of a garage or small warehouse. The focus would be on the modular and simple, tapping into the same Tiny House trend that the WikiHouse project and other CNC-based housing production schemes have. This seems to me a much more practical approach and, of course, we have seen something similar both these Chinese and Dutch projects. Though shipped as complete prefabs, the Chinese printed houses seem to be assembled from short bay sections much as I've imagined--though with much heavier and more brittle masonry material. The Dutch canal house project is using a series of varied modular components, printed with a very large derivative of the Ultimaker 3D printer which is nonetheless at a far more practical scale of hardware than earlier proposed house printers like the Contour Crafting system. But what does the prospect of 3D printed housing mean for the way we regard housing and the way that influences housing economics? The 3D printed house is, effectively, the ultimate made-on-demand 'blobject'. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobject ) As such it has the very disruptive potential to decouple the value of housing from property--the essential basis of the Ponzi scheme of real estate. It's disposable and adds no value to the property it's placed on. It can be replaced as cheaply as it might be repaired--potentially with low environmental impact based on the kinds of materials speculated. This is why the scale of the 'buy in' for the entrepreneur is so critical. This technology will be suppressed by the established finance industry as long as its implementation is capital-dependent--like every other radical housing innovation that came before it. The 3D printed house is in the peculiar situation that its most practical near-term application--relief/low-cost housing--is the greatest threat to its eventual mainstream acceptance because the real estate market is extremely class and race biased. As soon as a particular style of architecture becomes associated with a particular social class it becomes damned from the presence of other class communities--just as happened with the mobile home. Currently, Tiny House architecture is tolerated in conventional communities because it remains well camouflaged, discreet, and relatively rare. That quaint doll-house look is rather crucial. 3D printed housing can potentially be as flamboyant in design as commercial architecture. It can get as wild as anyone's imagination, especially when one needs no mortgage. Ironically, the worst thing a housing innovation can do is aesthetically draw attention to itself. Even as tolerant as the local culture may be, the Dutch canal house design could only ever be a temporary exhibition. The 3D printed house is an artifact of another culture--a future culture that our current culture has only barely begun to evolve toward. Regardless of how it functionally performs, it's near-term prospect is very likely to be exactly the same fate as befalls every other form of alternative construction and architecture; embraced for commercial/industrial/'special' use but, for housing, damned to the edge of wilderness. Its first adopters will be those seeking such alternatives to empower their 'unplugging' from the existing culture and its economic constraints. It faces a situation similar to that the late Nader Khalili faced with vitrified earthen construction. His goal for that technology was to radically change the situation of housing in the whole developing world. But he sought to get the technology accepted in the west first because, in his experience, innovations were only embraced in the developing world culture when they had apparent acceptance in rich western nations. The leaders in the developing world keep thinking they have to 'catch up' to the west--as if we know what the hell we're doing! He knew he could never break through to the mainstream western real estate market, so took a very radical approach; he went to NASA proposing buildings for the Moon... On 4/14/14, 10:18 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote: dear Eric, I wonder if you could comment on this for the p2p blog ? i wonder if you address estethic issues ? -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ -- Eric Huntingerichunting(a)gmail.com -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: book in Greek
by Michel Bauwens 08 May '14

08 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:56 AM Subject: Fwd: book in Greek To: David Bollier <david(a)bollier.org>, silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de Cc: Γιώργος Παπανικολάου <georgepapani(a)gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens < michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Dear Silke & David, I hope that this finds you well and creative! After months of delay, the ebook of the collective book on the P2P and Commons has just been published: http://voreiodytikes.blogspot.gr/2014/05/14-x-205.html Attached you may find the pdf which is freely available. Let's hope that this book will considerably contribute to the social dialogue in Greece for alternatives beyond the dominant paradigm. Thank you once more for sharing your essay... If you have any question, do not hesitate to ask me :-) All the best, -- Dr. Vasilis Kostakis Research Fellow Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Research Director P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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cost of compound interest
by Michel Bauwens 08 May '14

08 May '14

Fabio asks: > > - use of debt-free funding (reduces cost by 52% according to Margrit > Kennedy) > Do you have any reference for this? Would like some reading here. Thanks > a reference can be found here: http://p2pfoundation.net/Compound_Interest -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: A New Phase of GTI
by Michel Bauwens 08 May '14

08 May '14

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Survey on Value in Peer Production
by Kevin Flanagan 08 May '14

08 May '14

Please help spread and share this survey with your communities. Hello, The P2Pvalue project is undertaking research on commons-based peer production (CBPP) communities around the world. The goal of this research project is to develop a techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production. As part of this work, the P2P Foundation is interested in understanding more about how value is created and capture in these communities at different levels. We would be very grateful if you could help by completing the questionnaire in the link below (click on link or copy and paste link into browser). Please also feel free to post the survey on your Facebook page or send to others involved in your or other CBPP communities. surveys.peerproduction.net/ls2/index.php?r=survey/index/sid/981217/newtest/… Once the survey will be finished, the resulting raw data will be anonymized and publicly available. Thank you very much for your help! Kind regards, Ignasi Capdevila P2P Foundation PS: Please help us with 10 min of your time to complete the survey.

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Re: [P2P-F] [investigacion] sustainability of digital manufacturing
by Fabio Barone 07 May '14

07 May '14

> > > > - amount saved by producing locally (transport is 3/4th of real > material/energy cost of existig material production) > great one, and if coupled with sourcing materials locally (like biomass/algae for biodegradable filaments for 3d printers), tremendous potential > > - use of debt-free funding (reduces cost by 52% according to Margrit > Kennedy) > Do you have any reference for this? Would like some reading here. Thanks

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Re: [P2P-F] Random - a human-centered approach to algorithms
by Michel Bauwens 07 May '14

07 May '14

thank you jarno, i'm sharing it with the list, Michel On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Jarno Mikael Koponen <jarno(a)futureful.com>wrote: > . "Random" Predictive Content Discovery: Jarno Koponen Interview > http://www.datascienceweekly.org/blog/19-random-predictive-content-discover… > > "We need a more human-centered approach when building digital products and > especially systems that will augment integral parts of our existence." > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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sustainability of digital manufacturing
by Michel Bauwens 07 May '14

07 May '14

this is a must read for our community: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/03/how-sustainable-is-digital-fabricati… Kevin, could you print this out for me, I want to give this a serious read ? Michel -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Mais bacana e possível ainda, Pós + Pós Latu Sensu Lala Economia Criativa e Colaborativa
by Michel Bauwens 06 May '14

06 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lala Deheinzelin <lala(a)enthusiasmo.com.br> Date: 2014-05-06 11:09 GMT-05:00 Subject: Mais bacana e possível ainda, Pós + Pós Latu Sensu Lala Economia Criativa e Colaborativa To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Olá, Michel Olá, Sigo mais entusiasmada do que nunca com este misto de Pós + consultoria + rede de colaboração que inicia em 29/05/2014. Boas novidades: acontecerá com a ESPM, pois teremos condições melhores. - Poderemos acolher também quem ainda não tem graduação, com certificação emitida pelo IBQP! - Valor com 30% de desconto para contatos ArtA2 resulta em 22 parcelas de R$667,42. - A Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Paraná, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Agência Curitiba de Desenvolvimento, Instituto Municipal de Administração Pública de Curitiba, REDEC-PR, SEBRAE-PR, CIFAL-SESI-PR, GRPCOM (RPCTV), HUB Curitiba, SIAPAR e AVEC estão super apoiando, então haverá um edital e eles arcarão com mais 30% do valor da mensalidade dos inscritos. - Serão encontros mensais em Curitiba e há mais informação aqui<http://d-click.enthusiasmo.com.br/u/7754/52/7262/165_0/752f9/?url=http%3A%2…>. (Ah! A atividade da sexta de manhã será por escala, obrigatória apenas para duas pessoas a cada semana). Agradeço muito se puderem compartilhar, pois agora estamos na reta final para alcançar o número suficiente de pessoas! Lala Deheinzelin, Enthusiasmo Cultural e Crie Futuros http://www.neec.com.br/economia-criativa-e-colaborativa<http://d-click.enthusiasmo.com.br/u/7754/52/7262/165_1/752f9/?url=http%3A%2…> Descadastre-se <http://d-app.enthusiasmo.com.br/o/7754/52/7262/752f9> caso não queira receber mais e-mails. -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Connect with Eco-Leaders @ Green Cities Forum & Awards on June 20, 2014 in Pune, Maharashtra
by Michel Bauwens 06 May '14

06 May '14

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