The Common Good

A big thanks to Sam Gherke for a fantastic set of photos from The Common Good's unveiling of the mobile workshop the weekend before last! It was a fantastic event we will treasure forever, and I am so glad we have this beautiful record to remember it by! Big hugs to all the team members who put so much work into this project. We are deeply indebted to the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and other donors who made it possible. ALSO, a huge shout-out to our event guests and residents of Opportunity Village Eugene who helped make the celebration a success! some of the folks we need to thank: http://olgehrkebastard.tumblr.com/ http://www.opportunityvillageeugene.org/ https://sites.google.com/site/conestogahuts/ http://patchworkrepair.tumblr.com/ https://resurrectioneugene.org/ http://eugenesleeps.org/ http://heartofeugene.org/ http://www.backyardbungalows.net/ and many more

photo credit: Andrew Heben (http://www.tentcityurbanism.com/)

more photos to come! from olgherkebastard!

all happening out of our favorite new addition to the Eugene physical landscape: The Common Good Mobile Workshop! Come by, check it out, lend your skills on some tools to help fix up some OVE huts for winter, eat food and be merry!

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Here are some more construction photos - got about half of our siding up this weekend - and more to come with this sweet weather!

Hey folks, sorry for not sharing any progress recently, but here's some of the stuff we've been up to! the trailer will be clad soon!

Here's What Austin's Newest Housing For the Chronically Homeless Looks Like

Many people think panhandlers are just lazy alcoholics getting rich off handouts and using the money for drugs. Here's why they're wrong.

We met a lot of great new folks who gave us valuable feedback and advice. We will be going out to the village council meeting this evening to discuss specifics.

mobile showers for the homeless

[more photos coming]

In addition to NOT updating our blog, The Common Good Team has been hard at work drafting details on these warm summer nights. We've picked up two more team members, Collin and Cem, and together, we should be finishing up a design that we will start building in the next month or two. Design iterations to come!

On the 14th of July, the team spent a warm afternoon pasting our schematic ideas to our frame. The 1:1 design process was the perfect media for testing and comparing the different designs that we all had. Detailing yet to come, but our designs focused on how different spaces might be used for  different projects over time, for different projects by different stakeholders.

The Mobile Workshop Group We are a group of designers that build future scenarios on how we can live together in new ways. For design colleges and institutes we develop workshops that on a very practical and hands on way engage students, and later ...