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I read about The Tiny House Project on Twitter last night and I’m incredibility excited about the venture! I’m even thinking about submitting my own tiny house design.
Questioning how we live and use resources in America is at the heart of the project and I’m intrigued by the challenge. I hope the project is successful and makes people think about happiness, community and sustainable living.
Here is a short summary of the project:
“The Tiny House Project will bring together a group of artists to help us explore how we, in America, live. Nine artists will create a neighborhood of tiny homes in order to ask some very interesting questions about the choices we make. Do our choices bring us joy? How do they shape our connections with the people around us? In what ways will our choices change the lives of future generations? The Tiny House Project is a public art experiment, and everyone is invited to participate.”
and…
“The Tiny House Project will put out a call for submissions asking artists for tiny house project proposals. Specific criteria for these proposals are being developed with input from members of the Project’s Advisory Committee to ensure that the resulting structures meet artistic, environmental, structural and communication objectives. A qualified selection panel will choose nine tiny house projects from the pool of applicants to receive funding (a more detailed description of this two-stage call follows). Each artist/project team will be given a 7’ x 14’ trailer bed and $23,000 to cover the cost of materials and artists’ fees associated with designing and building a tiny house that will then be incorporated into a temporarily occupied micro-community and a follow-on traveling exhibition.”
Michael at Tiny House Design has an excellent post on the topic. Click here to read it. 
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Thanks Tammy. It was actually your tweet and Steph’s retweet that introduced me to The Tiny House Project… THANK YOU!!!
You should definitely submit a design. The more the merrier. It would be cool to win but I’m really excited about the energy it could generate more. I’m actually going to put together some tiny house design how-to videos as soon as I can and post them on Tiny House Design. I’m no architect but I think I could give people a few pointers on how to design their own tiny house. It would be totally cool to empower a ton of people to think (and draw) tiny.
It would be awesome if you were one of the final 9! You have so much talent; I’m looking forward to watching the how-to videos.
I think this project has the potential to generate an enormous amount of energy and it’s really a good thing. Like I said in the post, I really hope the project gets people to think outside the box and to question their lifestyle choices.
Hey seeing the image above reminded me to ask: have you told Brad and Jeff about this project yet? They might be interested and they sure have the talent in spades!
~L