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15 Jan 09

Creative Class » Blog Archive » The Great Retrofit - Creative Class

I'm bookmarking this Richard Florida/ Creative Class blog post since it's one I left a long(ish) comment on, this time around the need for buildings to be adaptable.

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26 Feb 08

The Shipyard Returns - O'Reilly Radar

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.

11 Feb 08

» One Book: Natural Light • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape

Essay reflecting natural light usage in Victorian architecture by Spacing Wire's Dylan Reid. "Perhaps, in their appreciation for and management of natural light, our Victorian predecessors can remind us of an important consideration in city-building." I added a comment to his entry.

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