Whole ecovillage fits inside giant greenhouse: walkable, weatherproof by Kirsten Dirksen on December 9, 2024 Thirty years ago, a group of friends in British Columbia set out to create a new kind of ecovillage—and they …
Jack Kerouac’s boarding-house now co-living for creatives by Kirsten Dirksen on November 7, 2020 In 1953 Jack Kerouac stayed here for part of the spring, but when Sara McEre bought the former 19th-century boarding …
Experiments in tiny, communal living at former Paris hospital by Kirsten Dirksen on March 18, 2018 On the grounds of an abandoned hospital in Paris, the cabin-makers of “Yes We Camp” have installed one-of-a-kind overnight shelters: …
LA coliving: a permeable intersection between social/privacy by Kirsten Dirksen on January 8, 2017 Calling it “a social network with an address”, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elvina Beck created PodShare, a coliving experiment where dozens …
NorCal community blends nature with communal & private space by Kirsten Dirksen on December 4, 2016 In 1965, a group of young architects- inspired by the local Pomo Indians’ belief in “living lightly on the land”- …
