open source ghana

OS House Ghana Breaks Ground

ghanapilot — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:40:55 +0000

leadership from designers

ghanapilot — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:56:31 +0000

burkina faso

ghanapilot — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:52:13 +0000

Its goals are to promote sustainable construction and solutions for all types of income, and to offer a model that can be adapted to different people’s needs and local climate conditions.

ghanapilot — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:53:25 +0000

Made by a local family, its walls have over 1200 PET bottles and its ceiling, more than 1300 Tetra Pak cartons

ghanapilot — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:58:30 +0000

Ideas from farmers in Ghana

ghanapilot — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:58:20 +0000

MIA

ghanapilot — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:09:31 +0000

We have been so busy doing fieldwork and writing the thesis (which is due May 10th) that we haven’t been keeping the world updated on this portal! I arrived safely from Ghana, yet Charlotte is STILL there, trapped in a hostel in Accra, waiting to catch a flight… All this mayhem in Africa due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland — can we take a moment to emphasize how interconnected we are, both socially and ecologically here in this system?

Tuna and I had one of our final presentations last week, which I will post here. It was an update on the thesis, where we realized the gaps we need to address and served as insight into the overall comprehension of this project to a larger audience.

Ghana was surreal and Charlotte and I did our best to surmount our challenges, where in retrospect and if we can make any recommendations, 3 weeks isn’t enough for fieldwork in Ghana (where the European time pressure is on) and I would venture to say in Africa in general. I would spend about 5 or 6 weeks there and go early on in the project, if feasible, where it wasn’t for us for this particular endeavour. I feel super blessed to have had that experience and I really cannot wait to go back! We met some some STELLAR individuals who introduced us to Ghana properly and made the trip supreme.

OS House project has landed a plot for the pilot and we got to spend a couple hours with them at the airport, where our trajectories didn’t intersect in Ghana too much, as the project managers were busy up in the north most of the time and we were in Cape Coast.

Back to writing the thesis,

stepanka

Prefab houses made from plastic by Affresol, each house diverts 18 tons of plastic from the landfill

ghanapilot — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:04:51 +0000

Some of us are off to Ghana to immerse> Updates coming soon>collecting data & writing our hearts out

ghanapilot — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:14:29 +0000

CITIZEN ARCHITECT

ghanapilot — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:31:57 +0000