Team 10^10 which includes fieldoffice partners and Clemson faculty Martha Skinner and Douglas Hecker and Clemson University students Kristen Hill, Whitney Newman, Stephen Troutman, and Lindsey Woods will discuss the SEED_Haiti project. The project is an environmental and humanitarian solution for providing relief housing with the adaptive reuse of surplus ISO shipping containers which in time turn into permanent homes. Designing a process and not an outcome the team has decidedly chosen the seed and its symbiotic-propagation as an analog. Thinking time based and considering logistics, the beginning design has emerged as a system of event based solutions capable of providing immediate housing after hurricanes or natural disasters, local intervention and materials eventually developing into permanent and investment with a local identity. Utilizing local skills, labor, and materials the final design is dynamic taking on a symbiotic relationship with the local cultures. Eventually the ubiquitous container is embedded and made permanent providing an investment that can appreciate with time. The project has received a lot of media attention and support from groups and individuals that want to provide their expertise towards its realization. We are still looking for partners. The project is simple yet complex and so the team is working on the best way to set up such a system and on what is the urbanism that emerges out of this. For the team it is important to house people quickly yet be sensitive to their needs, culture and the history of their city. The team is exploiting the Powers of 10 to build a large community of support and to grow as quickly as the numbers of people who were suddenly left homeless in Haiti. Likewise, the team is exploiting other technologies available today in order to deal with the hugeness of the situation in a sensitive and effective manner. Join us at Hatchfest for the discussion, join us at 10^10 on
facebook. Check out the project at
http://www.seed-haiti.net/
