How Finland fixed homelessness while the US fails: home vs. shelter by Kirsten Dirksen on October 12, 2025 Meet the American idealists inspired by Finland’s model to end homelessness. It all started when they noticed something odd from …
Our definition of “home,” place, & belonging (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 16, 2021 Wanting to examine the meaning of home in a reference point for Western Civilization, our family of 5 boarded a …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip documentary by Kirsten Dirksen on January 5, 2014 One of the most elusive goals in life is determining just what you need to live. As co-founders of a …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip doc trailer by Kirsten Dirksen on December 23, 2013 Last summer, life handed us a roadtrip: we had tiny homes to film along the West Coast and while we …
An original maker: Paul Elkins, Pacific Northwest polymath by Kirsten Dirksen on February 18, 2013 Paul Elkins has always loved to doodle; when he turned 8 years old his mother bought him his first serious …
Log cabin simplicity: recrafting pioneer tiny homes in Iowa by Kirsten Dirksen on January 22, 2013 In 2007, Paul Cutting was finishing college and a bit lost: “nowhere closer to figuring out the purpose of my …
"We The Tiny House People" Documentary by Kirsten Dirksen on May 12, 2012 TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her 5-year journey into the tiny homes of people searching …
Lloyd Kahn shows his book on simple shelters under 500 sq-ft by Kirsten Dirksen on April 30, 2012 Lloyd Kahn learned to publish books working as the shelter editor on Stewart Brand’s The Whole Earth Catalog over 4 …
Direct Cinema redux: "We the Tiny House People" documentary by Kirsten Dirksen on April 28, 2012 Last year, after the viral success of a few of my videos on people living in very tiny homes (Manhattan …
How I made “We the Tiny House People” by Kirsten Dirksen on April 23, 2012 These days, I see small homes everywhere and just released a documentary on the topic (watch “We the Tiny House …
