Here are some images of Robert and Roland assembling the Shelter for the fundraiser last weekend.
Shelter 2.0 Fundraiser a huge success!
The fundraiser at Chatham Winery raised over $5400 toward our goal of sending 10 shelters to Haiti…one 20′ container full. A big thanks to all.
Shelter 2.0 in the News
Robert was interviewed the other day for our regional newspaper, the Eastern Shore News, and the article just appeared.
You can read the whole article online here
Shelter model in the Sketchup 3d warehouse
We’ve posted a 3d model of the new Shelter design in the Sketchup 3d warehouse..you can find it in the Axiom Structures collection.
If you don’t use Sketchup you can see a preview below. Be patient…it may take a few seconds to load, but when you see the shelter and it’s shipping crate you can spin it around with your mouse.
New website
As you can see we have a cool new website thanks to our friend…. architect, boatbuilder, and digital fabrication collaborator Becky Shoemaker. We’re steadily shuffling content over so check back often for more website updates.
Shelter fundraiser at Chatham Winery
We’ll be hosting a fundraiser on Dec. 11th at Chatham Vineyards in Machipongo, VA. We will be steaming clams, eating pork BBQ and listening to the sounds of Jim Fabricatore and friends. Tickets are twenty dollars and the money will go towards more shelters and buying the equipment for the local high school to start manufacturing shelters and other projects in their shop classes.
Tickets are $20 and are available at Rayfields Pharmacy in Nassawaddox, VA and Machipongo Trading Co and Chatham Vineyard in Machipongo, VA.
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Robert’s trip to the Mad Housers
It’s very easy to walk by a homeless person on the sidewalk and ignore them or see them as nothing more than some lazy bum who ought to just clean up their act and get a job, but it’s on the rare occasion that you take time out from your busy life as we did this weekend in Atlanta that you realize how human the homeless really are, and that possibly one small effort by a few can make big difference for many. This weekend we traveled to Atlanta to demonstrate how to set up one of our shelters and leave it behind for the Mad Housers to use as a community area in one of their camps. The Mad Housers are an amazing group that build and set up shelters for the homeless in Atlanta. We spent the day with them both building and discussing what working with the homeless in Atlanta is like and how they would like to see their organization do more than they already are . They are an amazing group of individuals doing incredible work, fueled by the obvious passion of the organizations president Nick Hess. It was a great weekend and great way to kick off National Hunger and Homelessness week and I look forward to working with Nick and the Mad Housers in the future.
What is Shelter 2.0 about
What is Shelter 2.0 and what is it all about? That is a question I think about often and thought about alot on my ride home from Atlanta yesterday. Often when I talk to people they get caught up in the actual physical structure of the shelter itself but that is such a small part of it. The most important part about Shelter 2.0 is the ability to share it, with both it’s successes and failures as well as it’s strenghs and it’s weaknesses with the whole world. We state that our goal is to shelter the one hundred million homeless people in the world. That goal in the age of file sharing, open source, and social networking has never been more achievable. Shelter 2.o is about what we can both learn and achieve as a collective whole.