tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074851971759877582024-03-19T01:51:05.569-07:00House-AboutHouse-About is a play house made from a combination of recycled, re-usuable and sustainable materials. It is light and easy to transport and assemble.
It is a small venue for exploring the possibilities offered by eco and low impact architecture and imaging a more sustainable future. A place for children to dream-in a new way of living through workshops, stories and play. A place for adults to meet and share their dreams of a closer, stronger and more sustainable community.House-Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603996451315907787noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107485197175987758.post-33247871466802818722012-07-12T05:34:00.002-07:002012-07-19T13:28:25.717-07:0024hrs of PossibilityMy dream of the House came to fruition on 20th June this year as House-About made it's first appearance in the Civic square as part of the activities for the<a href="http://www.festivaloftransition.net/"> Festival of Transition</a>.<br />
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This time House-About was half black board, half fabric. We invited folk to write down what are their snakes and ladders to link with the giant game I made with the help of the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Creative-Club/165344666907649">Saturday Creative Club</a>. Big thank yous and many cheers to Wendy Stayte, <a href="http://wendyhowarth.blogspot.co.uk/">Wendy Howarth</a> and <a href="http://www.bethanmatthewsillustration.co.uk/">Bethan Matthews</a> for the pictures on it.<br />
The event was called Tea And Exchange in the Square . Folk were invited to bring homemade or locally bought food to share over pots of tea while making new friends. We had a swop table for unwanted goods, Dr Bike, Several skillshare incl. upcycling and Mosaic with Jan O'Highway. <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/steph-bradley/2012-06/tale-kids-woods">Steph</a> told Tales of Transition, Sally gave information about the Credit Union and Ruth Ben Tovin of <a href="http://www.encounters-arts.org.uk/">Encounters</a> set up a story sharing space with Inez Aponte. The tea table groaned under the weight of delicious dishes as Mary Rebeh and Erica kept the tea pots full of sweet hot brews in their flowery finery.<br />
Despite the threat rain, the sun shone strongly from within as people opened their hearts to one another in this rare pubic opportunity of giving and sharing.House-Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603996451315907787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107485197175987758.post-12183877813129795222012-02-25T13:41:00.002-08:002012-02-25T13:41:44.976-08:00Dartington Village Hall 11th Feb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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celebrate the success of the grant application to insulate the village hall. There was tea and cakes followed by cheese and wine. Children were invited to make a room in a box by Ruth and Sarah, with some fantastic and inspiring results.House-Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603996451315907787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107485197175987758.post-73011347132419626962012-01-31T08:58:00.000-08:002012-01-31T08:58:24.102-08:00Winterfest 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJpUmSl5ig9B51fGDQQaGuQqkPym3rGVEbx6siCK3spzUQNE30EHvCUABPfylmE_lvYp6UeTkzu9uj07b3IhfI7U4faWNbf_5uP2ML_ZvxhCO6H61kMk09zmZ_jHDnajroOOzXyTfg2w/s1600/house-about+at+winterfest+%2810%29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJpUmSl5ig9B51fGDQQaGuQqkPym3rGVEbx6siCK3spzUQNE30EHvCUABPfylmE_lvYp6UeTkzu9uj07b3IhfI7U4faWNbf_5uP2ML_ZvxhCO6H61kMk09zmZ_jHDnajroOOzXyTfg2w/s320/house-about+at+winterfest+%2810%29.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">We were asked to provide a creative play space for families attending the Winterfest. A celebration of and for all the groups and community involved in Transition Town Totnes. A day to invite others to see what has been achieved in the last 5yrs and the opportunity to join in co-creating the future.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">We made mice from toilet roll tubes, christmas crackers and sock puppets for the puppet theatre we incorporated into one end of house-About. Paint and brushes were used with colourful abandon on 2 sides of the house which were built of cardboard.</div>House-Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603996451315907787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107485197175987758.post-2292737939148021822012-01-31T08:52:00.000-08:002012-01-31T08:52:36.366-08:00The Big Draw<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg625FSa7bdKFAA3FREM-k51K7KRnOc3CsZWDFUzJlCB_xqFI0ZuOzJGUx5aXrlnIhUJn9869TK8a71tTw1l9BnwC2Nd88dY3EdWoIZL4qoMylfXfQW2faevmWUzin_XUujySK896XPc-E/s1600/draw+event+2011+031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg625FSa7bdKFAA3FREM-k51K7KRnOc3CsZWDFUzJlCB_xqFI0ZuOzJGUx5aXrlnIhUJn9869TK8a71tTw1l9BnwC2Nd88dY3EdWoIZL4qoMylfXfQW2faevmWUzin_XUujySK896XPc-E/s320/draw+event+2011+031.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The next event was The Big Draw on 28<sup>th</sup> October up in the Rotherfold, a beautiful under used square at the top of Totnes high Street. The day was bright and crisp. We had amassed stacks of cardboard and the Theme was “ taking a line for a walk into the future”. We had black and white paint and chalk. Participants were asked to draw there visions of themselves and community in the future and we had some very beautiful and thought provoking images created. House about had a complete cardboard makeover.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">This event was co-ordinated by Janey Hunt and myself with our TTTAG hats on and we were ably assisted by Sarah Bainbridge and Ruth Rae, House-About's team as well as local illustrators, Wendy Howarth and Bethan Welby</div>House-Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603996451315907787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107485197175987758.post-11609497812664723892012-01-31T08:49:00.000-08:002012-01-31T08:54:18.674-08:00Eco Homes 2011<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">House-About still had more to offer and I was asked to provide the kids space at the Eco Homes Fair in October 2011. From the the comment of one little girl when asked at the Transition streets event what she thought House-About needed she said, “ a cooker, a washing machine ..”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbJwjnPahHI7c_8xjG6gnBAbfG4jm98K4UXsw8l4I2rBn1HvVmwVdcGD47xZfnLV8jsjWb7maUePyDZqDeiJbL0FxxShBPDqFhPWKRrZgAxq6YWdljaGCS9fbvW0NRJ-9csOcLKxZP2I/s1600/house+about+at+eco+homes+%282%29.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbJwjnPahHI7c_8xjG6gnBAbfG4jm98K4UXsw8l4I2rBn1HvVmwVdcGD47xZfnLV8jsjWb7maUePyDZqDeiJbL0FxxShBPDqFhPWKRrZgAxq6YWdljaGCS9fbvW0NRJ-9csOcLKxZP2I/s320/house+about+at+eco+homes+%282%29.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">So I decided to offer the opportunity to make all these appliances and more out of cardboard boxes and other scrap. We also made bees on sticks to mark plants bees love in our gardens and their basic formula using a cork and a wooden screwer progressed to butterflies and flowers then roof top gardens with the inspired assistance of my co workers. Some children made dolls houses from the cardboard boxes and there was a lot of child led creativity enabled and encouraged by the three of us. We gave out stickers to 30 children by way of awarding and keeping track of numbers (as we remembered) and many of them stayed with us for 2-3hours, some for the whole event.<br />
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">By the end of the day House-About had a light shade, TV, sink, fridge, wood burning stove, cooker and a table complete with cups and saucers.</div><br />
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Why House-About?</div>
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When I first became involved in Transition Town Totnes, I joined the art group. In the year and a half since arriving in Totnes I had seen very little of Transition events being a single parent to a 4yr old, I was not able to attend every meeting.</div>
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Talking with other parents in my local childrens centre and around play parks not many people seemed to understand what Transition as all about.</div>
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I joined the art group with the intention of finding some fellow artists to create some public events which would engage the public in a playful and creative way on the themes of transition. I formed a splinter group of activists but we were all too busy to put into action the crazy schemes we had plenty of fun dreaming up . We did make some signs for the planters at steamer quay for the inspirational greenfingered incredable edibles.</div>
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However all that talk opened a channel and I had a midnight inspiration to create a Wendy House, which would attract children and their parents. A play house that would offer a visual representation of a sustainably built, energy efficient home.</div>
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It needed to be light and easy to transport in a small vehicle or push-cart, yet big enough to accommodate several children and an adult. All it's parts needed to be easily replaceable and the frame strong enough to support a variety of materials.</div>
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I have since built a prototype of this vision made from coppiced hazel poles, reclaimed plywood from a skip for the corner joins, Velcro, tent pegs and created a material cover from a roll end of upholstery fabric from the fabulous Ali-ways scrap store in Paignton.</div>House-Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603996451315907787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107485197175987758.post-83747326668766057612011-07-30T11:54:00.000-07:002011-07-30T11:54:02.001-07:00House-About<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdtUgE30TpRFqiLaUNHf0N12YTwAsFxfhdEKTOaQQAnytFhJbvVmlDTUw6_HXwnWODWa5N8lF_9AznZz48RzhxXf05YKhZYA0fXq8dj7i4feh9KAVdR-lI-wxkC5qH5vq28iaCpnteXn0/s1600/rabbit+021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdtUgE30TpRFqiLaUNHf0N12YTwAsFxfhdEKTOaQQAnytFhJbvVmlDTUw6_HXwnWODWa5N8lF_9AznZz48RzhxXf05YKhZYA0fXq8dj7i4feh9KAVdR-lI-wxkC5qH5vq28iaCpnteXn0/s320/rabbit+021.JPG" width="240" /></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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