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Looking this over, it occurred to me that this might be a suitable
venue for a project I've been wanting to do for a while but which
life has been getting in the way of lately; the demonstration of
'compound living' with the use of CNC based microyurts. Compound
living is where a home is based on a cluster of small shelters in
the open. Instead of creating a large building divided into many
rooms, you use closely spaced small buildings, each independently
heated and powered, designed to host the functions of one or two
rooms, and optionally linked by decking and outdoor lounge areas. In
this way one facilitates the use of much smaller structures with
much lower impact on the land and which are easier for the
individual owner-builder to construct and deploy. It's a concept I
once briefly discussed with Pierre Koenig shortly before his death;
he working on a very high-end Modernist expression of the concept at
the time and I exploring the possibility of repurposing prefab
structures like small car shelters as a low-cost owner-built
solution for the low-toxic housing crisis. (I got his attention
because, apparently, I was among the first and last people to ever
contact him by email) Currently, I feature a compound home concept
as one of the possible housing designs for the Open House
documentary project--a project to showcase Post-Industrial culture
through the demonstration of the owner-built construction of a home
and lifestyle based entirely on Open Source designs and personal
digital fabrication. <br>
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What is interesting with compound living in this festival's context
is the way it merges the home with the immediate natural
surroundings. Little to no landscape modification would be used, the
microshelters set in the found space nature provides using small
pier foundations. The open natural environment--let's say, a
forest--becomes one's home and the small structures rooms within
that home with the flora and fauna of the local environment free to
intersperse the living environment. And so this presents a very
different relationship between nature and the built habitat with
unique lifestyle aspects. (for better and worse in some aspects--you
might have a bit of a problem in locations with rougher climate or a
lot of dangerous fauna...) There is a potential here for the
cultivation of a greater empathy for the natural habitat and more
direct awareness of human impact on it. You are making a home in
nature the way a family of racoons might inhabit a hollow tree, yet
it's not 'camping' or 'roughing it' in any way as one is employing
the best technology has to offer for a safe and comfortable living
within, rather than apart from, nature. This notion might suit this
festival theme well. <br>
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But building a permanent compound home would be beyond the scope of
a festival exhibition and so I consider a more nomadic approach
based on the use of several 'microyurts' that is still clearly above
the level of camping. A microyurt is a simple shelter that employs
the structural concept of the traditional yurt--the rigidized
insulated tent--but at smaller size with more contemporary
materials, assembly, and design, such as the use of a CNC cut
skeleton frame made of EcoBoard with puzzle-fit assembly. I've been
planning to develop a set of these based on the calabash gourd shape
which has been featured in a lot of furniture design lately. Simply
imagine this at a human scale;<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kitticraft.com/shop/cat-beds-and-swings/calabash/#product_images">http://kitticraft.com/shop/cat-beds-and-swings/calabash/#product_images</a>[grouped]/0/<br>
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This shape is interesting for its organic character, it's relation
to native pottery shapes which could inspire its surface decoration,
the way that it provides a fully contained form supporting a
sheltered raised floor, and the fact that it would perfectly
accommodate the mounting of a small vertical axis wind turbine or
radial solar panel array on its top to power LED lighting, small
electric heating, mobile device charging, and cluster WiFi. And with
a gridded structure as demonstrated by the above cat bed, there is
much potential for integral appliances and shelving. Depending
mostly on the difficulty in crafting the exterior fabric shell,
developing a set of these with specialized interior design
variations for a portable compound could be possible within the time
before the festival date. Is it possible that support for such a
project could be found? <br>
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2016 Festival � Interfaces for Empathy � 22-25.9.2016</td>
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Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:23 AM<br>
Subject: [commoning] Open Call for Pixelache Helsinki 2016
Festival � Interfaces for Empathy � 22-25.9.2016<br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Festival dates: 22.-25.9.2016<br>
Deadline to apply: 1.5.2016<br>
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For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and
doers + everything in between also groups and
collectives.<br>
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For what: performances, interventions, installations,
talks, workshops, actions, processes, in any field.<br>
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The perspective that Pixelache�s 2016 festival
Interfaces for Empathy explores is one of empathy. The
festival sets out to engage with the question and
proposal that maybe empathy could be learned, found or
especially re-found through bodily experience and
presence or experimental communication that is not
limited only in between humans. The festival embraces
embodied and alternate visions of perception that
distance us from the perceptual machines that we might
be in danger of becoming due to sense-altering medias
and augmented realities. Is it possible, through this
very basic ability to sense or identify, to change the
narrative of the human-kind towards being a more
balanced part of the ecosystems we live within? The
dimension of empathy we are especially exploring in
this years festival is on microlevel; individual
experience, identity and on personal relations.<br>
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The festival�s main venue is Lapinlahti former
psychiatric hospital in central Helsinki, Finland.
Despite of the hospital area�s central location in the
city, it is situated close to the sea and surrounded
by big park & cemetery. There are several indoor
and outdoor spaces in the environment that used to be
part of the first psychiatric institution of Finland.
The festival also reaches out to other places in the
city through collaboration with Kiasma - the Museum of
Contemporary Art and MUU galleries.<br>
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Some projects from the festival will be chosen to tour
in two other towns in Finland, Jyv�skyl� and
Rovaniemi, in November 2016.<br>
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Read also <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pixelache.ac/posts/pixelache-festival-2016-interfaces-for-empathy-22-25-9"
target="_blank">http://pixelache.ac/posts/pixelache-festival-2016-interfaces-for-empathy-22-25-9</a><br>
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Please send your proposal through the online form at <a
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website. The information about the call results will
be sent in May 2016. The festival program is planned
through collaborative process by festival co-directors
Mari Keski-Korsu and Petri Ruikka, Pixelache member
& artist Egle Oddo, researchers Katri Saarikivi
and Valtteri Wikstr�m from NEMO research group and
Helsinki University, artist and professor from IT
University of Copenhagen Laura Beloff and other
Pixelache members.<br>
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If you have any questions, please contact <a
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