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Not that there's anything wrong with such creative outlets, but the scale of these "projects" is often mind-boggling, with tens of thousands being spent on marginal increases in functionality.
Jacob Lund Fisker • Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
living room laboratory,
James Nestor • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
-Decentralized building via open-source development
Katie Parrott • Legitimacy Lost
The contemporary home, in addition to housing the interfaces that enable humans to operate the machine for living in, is increasingly an interface itself, mediating between its inhabitants and the outside world.
Bram Fritz • Ambient Interfaces
Refer to Ben Reinhardt on how this stuff gets funding.
Adam Wiggins • Human-Computer Interaction // Metamuse podcast episode 6
For example, we can build new homes with “dual plumbing”
Elizabeth Royte • Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
“cheapskate architecture”: simple solutions using common, inexpensive materials that by being used in a new context were perceived differently.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
The Circular Economy—Designing for longevity and reuse of materials beyond the first use