Newsletter #1 – Dec2008
December news update from the Emergency Housing project at Formens Hus in Hällefors. Please check the proposed dates for the fall workshop.
Contents
Transitional Living Spring workshop in Hällefors, February 25-27, 2009
Fall workshop in Hällefors
September 2009 – check proposed dates
Immaterial rights – reserved to the UN or creative common license?
Spring start-ups: Chalmers and Konstfack
Emergencyhousing.se up and running
Meet us @ Stockholm Furniture Fair
Recommend a friend
Transitional Living Spring Workshop in Hällefors, February 25 – 27
Chalmers University and Konstfack will join a three day workshop on transitional living at Formens Hus in Hällefors. Lectures, seminars and hands on disaster simulation training will deepen the students awareness on relief housing from a cultural, social and environmental perspective. Programme to be published in January.
Fall Workshop in Hällefors, September 2009
The fall workshop in Hällefors will be the number one meeting place in the Emergency Housing project. We expect 80+ national and international students and faculty to join the five day workshop. The workshop will run in week 38 or 39, please check the dates and let us know what you prefer.
Week 38 – September 14-18
Week 39 – September 21-25
Traveltime to/from Hällefors is not included in proposed dates
Callout for activities and workshops
The fall workshop will provide disaster training, hands-on design experiments and social activities. Are you up to running a workshop or do you have any ideas for activities or workshops, please share them with us.
Callout for speakers
Any recommendations on speakers or topics? Please share them with us.
Project immaterial rights – UN or Creative Common?
As agreed upon all emergency housing projects rights are to be given to the UN. However, we would like to propose a new solution: a creative common attribution license.What is Creative Common?
Creative commons basically means that we let others copy, distribute, display, and perform our copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way we request (eg student name/school/formens hus). We believe this solutions will be more beneficial in terms of future implementation and publicity, and more important, it will not take the rights away from the students and it will encourage cooperation.
It will be up to either school to decide whether they go for creative common or reserve their rights to the UN. Please share your thoughts. We expect each school to decide before the projects is launched. More information on creative common licensing, please check: http://creativecommons.org/
Spring start-ups: Chalmers and Konstfack
Chalmers and Konstfack will be the pioneering universities to run classes within the Emergency housing project in spring 2009.
Konstfack Spaces of Conflict
At Konstfack class “Spaces of Conflict” students from the Fine Art, Goldsmithing and Industrial Design departments will examine cultural conflicts in emergency housing situations. The course will run for 5 weeks from Feb 23rd – March. 20th
Chalmers Transitional Structures
Chalmers Class transitional structures will let senior design-engineering students develop durable and eco-efficient building structures. The class will focus on rethinking the current fly-in-fly-out solutions to stimulate structural and ecological sustainability. The course will run part time from January 25th to
Online workshop and meetingplace – www.emergencyhousing.se
For those of you who haven’t visited and registered already, www.emergencyhousing.se is up and running for us to share ideas, designs and events.
Stockholm Furniture Fair
Are you visiting the Stockholm furniture fair? Let’s meet! Formens Hus will not reside in a stand but we will definitely be around,. Send us a message and we be glad to meet with you on-site.
Recommend a friend
Formens Hus aim is to create a lively, diverse and international design forum. As we raise new funds and commercial collaborators, we will invite more school’s, organisations and people to join our mission. If you have recommendations on collaborators or ideas on future projects, please let us know!
Contact
We love to hear from you. Do get in touch.