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• 26 Feb 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  In Vancouver, Wendy Waters (see http://allaboutcities.ca/stackable-affordable-fast-and-green-housing/) just posted something about using shipping containers for housing (not unknown here in Victoria, with Zigloo -- see http://www.zigloo.ca/index, right in the Fernwood neighbourhood), and presto-bingo, here's a post about using containers to create (one presumes and one hopes affordable) artists' workspaces! Yes, that would be welcome: someplace for the low-cash-flow creatives to live & work...

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  • A communal workspace for artists and alternative techies, The Shipyard was organized by Jim Mason; it was built as stacks of shipping containers. After the shutdown notice came, members of The Shipyard dispersed to other locations in the East Bay.
  • He asks: "What, in short, would power look like if it was art?"
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  • • I am interested in what happens when the arena of exploration for
      creative work and play is not "art" in its traditional forms, but
      rather the broad and loosely defined particulars of power generation
      and conversion. What if the point of interacting with energy
      machinery and processes is not solely for maximum efficiency and
      minimum price, but rather to contend other needs and desires, as well
      as other systems of valuation.

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