Venice exhibit packed
June 10th, 2012
A few of the big panels are not shown, as too much lifting effort was being made to take a picture, but the many components of the exhibit were packed…
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Obituary – Michael Callaghan – artist
June 6th, 2012
Michael was an early friend of Healthabitat and contributed great artwork for the 1994 book Housing for Health. The extracts shown here were part of a poster showing the incremental…
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Launching of ideas: living in the yard
May 31st, 2012
The exhibition was conceived and constructed by Christian Tietz, Greg Norman and Tasman Munro and set out designs that will allow the use of the yard area around houses to…
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Venice Update: Bridging health and housing
May 29th, 2012
. . See if you can pick the connections in the image below. What is the story about??? . . .
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Health Hardware
May 29th, 2012
In a back to the future moment, HH has dug up a simple drawing done in the early 1990’s that describes an example of how the ‘stuff’ of housing, infrastructure…
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Yardmaster comes to the city
May 27th, 2012
The Yardmaster exhibition (see EVENTS FOR DETAILS) brings the ideas, bits and pieces to the city for all to see what has been built in rural and remote areas of…
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When the detail is important …
May 1st, 2012
When houses have high populations, people are poor and can’t afford baby baths, laundry tubs become a good place to wash young children. If washing machine waste water has to…
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Venice Biennale thoughts progressing….
May 1st, 2012
Stay tuned for updates on what ideas will be presented and how in Venice. Some very rough working sketches are provided below to confuse and embarrass. HH will be putting…
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Thanks to assistance from Autodesk
April 8th, 2012
CHDS Nepal took delivery of some of these computers in April and will use them for financial reporting and general project documentation work. HH has provided financial software, originally developed…
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Even stars have to work
April 8th, 2012
A local village committee and construction workers get the animation and description of important aspects from Bishnu Shrestha (CHDS Nepal). Better informed committees and construction workers means better built systems,…
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The sixteen decisions
April 1st, 2012
Developed between 1980 and 1984 (just ahead of the 9 HLPs), these principles were the conditions required by the bank to loan money to the poorest people of Bangldesh. What…
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Development from below
April 1st, 2012
Commencing in Bangladesh micro finance and lending to poorer people has spread world wide. Understanding the detail is important, and the specifics of the simply written Nobel Prize citation to…
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