A collaborative design project for a world without oil.

How can we utilize the collective genius of as many people as possible to work towards an ecological future in terms of housing.
This is not a rating system, this is an open source project to create criteria and a database of resources, designs, materials, how they go together and how much they cost.
There are still many questions about how this all works, so this blog was created to get feedback and develop the idea and how the process works.

An outline will be posted soon to create a foundation to work from.

Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings. Ecosystems are defined by a web, community, or network of individuals that arrange into a self-organized and complex hierarchy of pattern and process.
from WikiPedia

Intro

If you would like to post an entry to this blog, send your text/images to ecologicaldesignbuild@gmail.com.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Collaborative Design Project Launched

I have communicated with many different people about the idea of a collaborative design process towards developing an open source database on what an ecological house is, how it is made, what it is made out of and how it performs.  This database is created by the public as a collaborative process and moderated by a "core circle" of people who are facilitating the process.

This project is stored as a database online -eventually on a dedicated website with discussion forums and resources that list materials, costs, designs, etc.  The project also has a community presence through "partners" who host workshops, presentations and other functions that work to further the discussion and resources that are hosted online.

I have started this blog to begin to document ideas and build energy around this idea.  I am currently inviting people to send me blog entries that I will post, unedited.

The project is currently looking for partners to support the development of this process.
Posted by ecological design/build at 1:34 PM
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