http://www.emergencyhousing.se The Emergency Housing Project mission is to design open source solutions that saves lives and enable for a sustainable future after natural disasters. The Emergency Housing Project is run by Formens Hus in joint collaboration with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, world leading universities and companies. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:57:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Greetings This is what we, group C of Karlstad University, will present on monday next week. Enjoy! http://www.quickfilepost.com/download.do?get=d69e67282820e3829b6b9ff522e4a81b http://www.quickfilepost.com/download.do?get=9d0de72e01473de1b0a136ff877ff166 http://www.emergencyhousing.se/uncategorized/group-c-of-kau-results/ The testing of the final prototype is complete, and went very well! Almost the whole group helped building it during the day, and tested it in the afternoon. The test was designed to show how well our device directs and preserve the heat from the burning wood, compared to a typical ... http://www.emergencyhousing.se/uncategorized/236/ Intro to the Emergency Housing Project: emergencyhousing_intro http://www.emergencyhousing.se/library/the-emergency-housing-project-presentation/ Videos from Hexayurt workshop: http://www.emergencyhousing.se/library/workshop-notes/transitional-living-workshop-hallefors-feb-2009/ During tomorrow the final prototype shall be built! Complete with handle, bottom and damp. Also we mean to compare it to a fireplace without any walls or anything. We are going to test how much better our prototype is by boiling water, and see how long it keeps boiling with a ... http://www.emergencyhousing.se/uncategorized/making-of-the-final-prototype/ One problem when there is a disaster, or there is a war going on, is that when thousands of people come together in a refugee camp, thousands of people also want to cook and eat. Today when they cook, they usually make a fireplace existing of some bricks and an open ... http://www.emergencyhousing.se/uncategorized/cooking-device-for-refugee-camps/ During our research we have discovered that our concept might be one of four. So we decided to evaluate these more thoroughly, and after that we made an decision. These are our evaluations.  All documents in swedish. Konceptutveckling Nicke & Sara Konceptutveckling Jokk & Christofer[christofer] Konceptutveckling http://www.emergencyhousing.se/studio/kau/group-b/how-we-aquire-our-concept/ These are the specifications that we build our project around. Documents in swedish. Kravspecifikation http://www.emergencyhousing.se/studio/kau/group-b/demand-specification-innovative-garbage-disposal/ This is how group b have planned their work for their innovations-campaign on garbage disposal in refugee-camps . Documents in swedish. Grupp%20B%20-%20projektplanering(1) http://www.emergencyhousing.se/studio/kau/group-b/projekt-plantimeplan-innovative-garbage-disposal/ File your post in the "Karstad University" category to include your posting in this category http://www.emergencyhousing.se/studio/kau/karlstad-university-emergencyhousing-se/