haiti rewired: quinta monroy, hackability, incremental housing

rholmes — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:45:11 +0000

For a bit over a week now (presuming I’ve got the timeline right), Wired‘s been building a very interesting community at their subsite Haiti Rewired, aimed at developing “tech and infrastructure solutions for Haiti”. A couple of items there tie back into the themes mammoth discussed in relation to Quinta Monroy: first, this brief post by Alexis Madrigal asks if built and rebuilt homes can be constructed for “hackability”, which is a tech-ish way to describe the central property of the Quinta Monroy project, and second, this more extensive post by Luke Perry, whose Branner fellowship research blog, The Incremental House, mammoth pointed to previously, both describes “incremental housing” as a concept and thoughtfully explains its applicability to the tragic situation in Haiti.

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haiti rewired: quinta monroy, hackability, incremental housing