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We need to find new
ways of living together.

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That is what I\'m
looking for in my work.

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I still believe in in
bettering the world and society

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through technology.

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I think the economy is one
reason that people are trying

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to downsize because
things are so expensive.

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You use already
manufactured objects

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and you bring into
the architecture.

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It\'s like ready
made architecture.

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A lot of people just
don\'t like the fact

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that they been essentially
forced into large space

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then they actually
want to be in.

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We have to re-appropriate
existing things.

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Make new value out
of this garbage.

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There is now question in
my mind that something

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that is more compact is
a smarter way to build.

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Now what we can do is.

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We can use all this trash
which is damaging the ecology

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and turn it into something
really beneficial.

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I think I\'m trying to
create a better world

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and in order to that
we have to experiment.

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Try out other ways of living.

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I find it very interesting
to look at something

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and imagine what its
next life would become.

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Given my interest
in mobility I\'ve

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always looked at
structures that are outside

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of architecture that move.

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Part of my thinking has
to do with the nature

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of being human and
whats that entail.

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To some degree with have this
desire to hold memory and often

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our memories are
stored in our attics

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because they are embedded
within the objects that we own

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but now memories can just
be stored on a hard drive.

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So we can dispose or do away
with the collection of stuff

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and live more lightly.

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As humans I really feel like we
were not meant to be centenary.

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Constantly when I
travel I\'m always

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drawn to the people
that are building

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with make-shift
construction pieces

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or using wheels in
unusual ways and I

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looked further and
further into that

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and found that there is
an incredible history

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of mobile lifestyles
and it became a passion.

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Recently I took an
old truck trailer

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and craned it over my house
and attached it to the back.

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A structure that not might
be road-wordy any more

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and rethought how I could skin
it, how I could create openings

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in it and make a contribution to
a dwelling that then could also

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be moved and
relocated as needed.

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I get really excited when
I\'m driving down the freeway

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and I see a truck go
by and I immediately

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start to fantasize how that
could become part of a house

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or become, you know,
a mobile library.

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There is a tremendous amount
of industrial materials

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that are out in
the landscape that

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can be redeployed in a
variety of different ways

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and for example the
shipping-container is

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a terrific example.

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I\'m not spending energy on
creating it from scratch

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but I\'m repurposing
it for another use.

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The Joshua tree prefab
is a modular home.

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Sits out on the
desert floor and is

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a fully self
sufficient structure.

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Where it is not attached
to the electrical grid

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and is not attached
to the water system.

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It is a very simple
building that is really

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meant to allow you to
sleep, to eat and to relax.

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That then could be moved
from location to location

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at a snap of finger.

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I would say there is
absolutely a movement that

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is pervasive
throughout this country

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where people are looking
to be able to create

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their environments without
having rules thrust upon them.

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Within that thinking there is
a difference in terms of scale.

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So less about bigger is
better and more about smaller

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is smarter and that is
connected to the dwelling we

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have around us.

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So the less stuff we have,
the lighter the materials are,

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the smarter they
become, the less

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encumbered we become as people.

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The buildings I
create are not large

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and yet they have a
sense of volume to them.

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They have natural
light, they have

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ceilings that tend to be
higher than conventional houses

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so you feel expensive
in terms of height

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but not necessarily
in terms of width.

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If you can look outside
and be connected

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to a natural
environment outside you

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are expending your
space visually but not

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necessarily physically.

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As human beings we are
nomadic and we\'re mobile

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and we\'re curious and we
will always be exploring.

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Whether it\'s here in the
desert, whether it\'s out

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in space or in the ocean
we can\'t let that go.

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When I look on what I consider
to be beautiful in the world.

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It\'s what is necessary.

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When something is truly
necessary it becomes vital

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and it\'s seems important
and seems beautiful.

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The average American
house puts out

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18 tons worth of green
house gases per year.

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Consume about a quarter
acre of wood-land.

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Puts another seven tons
of construction waste

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into the local landfills.

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So I wanted to contribute
to that as little

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as I had to still have
a great place to live.

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You know I never did any
building until I decided

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to live small and
I couldn\'t really

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afford to have anybody else
build for me so I built

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my own house and that\'s
how I learned to do it.

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Just by doing it.

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I\'ve actually lived in four
tiny houses in about this size.

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The first one was pretty
much exactly this size.

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The second one.

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When I moved to California
where the land prizes are

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expensive I wanted
to make sure my house

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was small enough
that I could parallel

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park it by hand if I had
to live on the street.

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Turned out that I didn\'t
have to live on the street.

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So I sold that one and
build another larger one

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and then finally this one.

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The first step to designing
a very small efficient space

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seems to figuring out
what you actually need

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and getting rid of everything.

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So in my case for example I
don\'t cook very much at all.

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So my counter is only
three and half feet long.

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If I cooked a lot I might turn
the whole house into a kitchen

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but it is a matter
of deciding what

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you need to do to be happy and
then accommodating for that.

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Because if your not.

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I guess the other
side of living simply

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is living to simply perhaps
and not having what you need.

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Which isn\'t good either.

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The laws in the US
say that you can\'t

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build a house that is to small.

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There are a few different
rules in there that apply.

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You go to have a room
of 120 square feet,

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any bedroom has to be
at least 70 square feet

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and when you add it all up it\'s
bigger then I actually wanted.

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So by putting a house on wheels
it\'s no longer a building,

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doesn\'t have to abide
by building codes

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and you can build it
as small as you want.

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You just can\'t go to big because
otherwise you probably going

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to hit a bridge when you
driving down the road.

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It is sort of a counter-culture
thing, I think, a lot of people

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just don\'t like the
fact that they been,

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essential, forced into
larger spaces then

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they actually want to be in.

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So beside just being
environmental and economic

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this thing is also sort of
a civil disobedience act.

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It\'s a way of getting around the
forces that have forced people

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into more house then they
actually wanted or needed

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in the past.

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I hope to build a village
within the next couple of years

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in this county.

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So people always have to fight
the codes and zoning laws.

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They can just live in a
tiny house village which

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will probably zoned as a
trailer park oddly enough.

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I never really thought of
myself as a trailer park

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type of person but this won\'t
be your average trailer park.

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It will be lots of
pedestrian walk ways, cars

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out back and some.

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It will be basically a
co-housing for the anti-social.

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You know like shared
somethings but lot

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of privacy in your
little houses too.

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I can fit a bed
downstairs but if I

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put a bed downstairs
I don\'t have.

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I mean that takes a lot
of space so I go up.

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I like to use vertical space
as much as possible to make

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things really efficient.

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A house which there is
a lot of wasted space

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is, just doesn\'t feel
vital and you fill it

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with a bunch of stuff
you don\'t really need.

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Life itself seems
diminished a bit.

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So in house where
everything is necessary life

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itself seems very necessary.

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And yeah I feel very much
more alive in a small place.

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The reason why I\'m
doing this project

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is because it is something that
I believe is really necessary.

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With the way that
civilization is

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growing over the planet and
it\' something that could really

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heal the ecology of the planet.

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Coming from a town in
the north of England

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where there is quite a bit of
pollution, a lot of industry.

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I was always quite interested in
the ecology from an early age.

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This idea came over
a number of years

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when I was in my thirties.

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After thinking deeply about
spiritual things and also

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ecological state of the
planet what the future could

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be with more people all time
and more threes cut down.

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This idea came to actually
grow plants and use the trash

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to create a base for a
floating garden that just

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keeps getting
stronger with time.

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Making land out of
plastic bottles and trash.

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This whole island with
the house included

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is about seventy
precent recycled.

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So I got really quite
a comfortable home.

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The way begin to build
island is just so simple.

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You take one shipping
pallet and then

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you get the bags of bottles
and just put them on the back

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and tie them together.

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When a plastic bottle is
underneath a floating island

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in cold water where the
sun isn\'t getting on it.

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It could last for
thousands of years.

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We don\'t really know but we
do know it last a lot longer.

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I actually took a bag
out after many years,

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because I\'ve been doing this
for five years, so I\'ve checked

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and corals are growing
underneath, on them

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and the tops get corals.

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So you can\'t even take
the tops off afterwards.

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And the idea is that it can get
big enough and strong enough

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to actually go on the ocean
and float down and eventually

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go through the Panama channel
and out on the pacific.

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It\'s not like a boat.

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Boats are solid and
they rock like this

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and it\'s a different thing.

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An island because it\'s flexible
the wave comes through.

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So the island actually rolls.

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So I say boats rock
but islands roll.

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There is many ways to
use and recycle and make

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wonderful homes and you
know you put your love in it

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and the love comes back.

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Other people who visit
enjoy it as well so much.

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So this is a shower that
comes partially from rainfall.

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It\'s creating more
uniqueness instead

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of having the old houses
out of ticky-tacky,

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you know, everyone the same.

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Variety in life I think is
really, really important.

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I\'ve noticed since I kind
of dropped out little bit

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from doing regular job my life.

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I can flow and feel, you
know, the spirit just

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taking me one way or the other.

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And as I do what I choose to
do my energy flows into that

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and actually produces
something more beautiful

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and it\'s more satisfaction.

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Now what we can do is.

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We can use all of this trash
which is damaging the ecology

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and turn it into something
really beneficial

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to the whole planet.

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Create more oxygen
and clean the waters.

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Put the trash underneath
and create more surface area

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for people to live on.

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We can heal the whole ecology
of the world using trash.

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I try understand what the
culture of the next city

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would be.

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The city is not what we see now.

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It\'s kind of image that we
see of the city but it\'s not.

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It does not correspond
to it\'s function anymore.

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You do not have the same
function of the street,

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of the piazza or of
urban space and I\'m

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very interested about
this condition that

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started after the internet.

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It\'s a kind of
post-network culture

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that has to do with the
idea of creating assembles

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through a kind of populations
of fragmented units.

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The crane rooms do
not have a roof.

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They are open air structures.

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They can function in
favorable weather conditions

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and they are there
in order to take

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advantages of open air life.

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They can orient themselves
towards the view

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that is preferred but
because of their height

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their isolated rooms finally.

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So when the crane rooms are up
and they observe their nature,

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let\'s say, it\'s
also another screen.

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They show nature not as
function but only as an image.

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Nature is a
construction that has

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to do with an
exotic view for me.

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There is a naive
understanding of nature

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in what we know today
as a return to nature.

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I\'m very distant to the idea
of making nature a new god.

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In this phase
architecture we don\'t

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have to create out of scratch.

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To re-order it, to make new
values out of this garbage.

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In the Keg apartment
I try to reuse vessels

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that I was always seeing
in the national road.

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I was thinking that there
is a huge space inside them

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so I thought that
it would be really

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interesting to be inhabited.

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I was always thinking
about those windows

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that would be open to the sky.

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How it would feel be inside.

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So it\'s kind of small
prison cell in a way.

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It\' s a cell were somebody
confines himself voluntary.

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We can be inside smaller
spaces without having

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the idea that we are
in smaller spaces

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because our window is now screen
that can change endlessly.

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Internet poses the condition
of a new minimalism.

00:22:50.870 --> 00:22:56.780 align:middle line:84%
This changes the
architecture of what house is

00:22:56.780 --> 00:22:59.010 align:middle line:90%
or what a house would be.

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The space that one needs in
order to observe his screen

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is the space, the
minimal space of today.

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The idea of concrete
beds has to do

00:23:18.150 --> 00:23:22.950 align:middle line:84%
with the concept
of understanding

00:23:22.950 --> 00:23:26.800 align:middle line:84%
the internet in a
barbarian sense.

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Cave society where
infrastructure

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is hidden but we need is
only a place to sleep.

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Internet and a cave.

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We do not go towards a
more complex civilization

00:24:05.970 --> 00:24:20.850 align:middle line:84%
but we go back-wards
towards a cave society.

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It just might be,
you know, out here we

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are just not surrounded by all
the stuff that\' s in cities

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and that makes you
just appreciate

00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.210 align:middle line:84%
people more because
your not inundated

00:24:33.210 --> 00:24:36.485 align:middle line:84%
with stimuli from
every direction.

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It\'s like my house
in upstate New

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York my property taxes alone was
twelve thousand dollars a year

00:24:46.010 --> 00:24:55.310 align:middle line:84%
and just to sustain all that
stuff can be really expensive

00:24:55.310 --> 00:24:58.540 align:middle line:84%
and to be able to just figure
out what you really need

00:24:58.540 --> 00:25:15.850 align:middle line:84%
and scale it back a little bit
it makes all the rest of life

00:25:15.850 --> 00:25:16.350 align:middle line:90%
easier.

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I worked in photography for
about six or seven years,

00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:23.160 align:middle line:84%
in fashion photography and then
I got kind of tired of fashion

00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:27.390 align:middle line:84%
so I went on to set
and prop building.

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I did that for about ten years.

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Got tired of that,
just got tired of being

00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.390 align:middle line:84%
around that many
people all the time.

00:25:35.390 --> 00:25:37.000 align:middle line:84%
Since I didn\'t have
family, I didn\'t

00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.557 align:middle line:84%
have a wife, kids I could
do anything I wanted.

00:25:40.557 --> 00:25:46.420 align:middle line:90%


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I started thinking
about how much room

00:25:49.010 --> 00:25:51.020 align:middle line:84%
did I really need
to live in and it

00:25:51.020 --> 00:25:54.670 align:middle line:84%
was kind of strange because
I lived in a 2800 square feet

00:25:54.670 --> 00:25:57.770 align:middle line:90%
and now I live 128 square feet.

00:25:57.770 --> 00:26:03.290 align:middle line:90%


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When I was six or
seven years old

00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:08.360 align:middle line:84%
I use to think I wanted to
be a hermit when I grow up.

00:26:08.360 --> 00:26:12.240 align:middle line:84%
So this is perfect
five or six days

00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.120 align:middle line:84%
go by and won\'t
see another human.

00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:17.640 align:middle line:84%
And I don\'t really
mind that to much.

00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:19.130 align:middle line:90%
Here it is.

00:26:19.130 --> 00:26:22.560 align:middle line:90%


00:26:22.560 --> 00:26:23.370 align:middle line:90%
Almost gone.

00:26:23.370 --> 00:26:25.460 align:middle line:90%
Oh, it\' s gone.

00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:27.860 align:middle line:90%
It\'s gone buddy.

00:26:27.860 --> 00:26:29.430 align:middle line:90%
It\'s gone.

00:26:29.430 --> 00:26:31.220 align:middle line:90%
It\'s all gone.

00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:33.555 align:middle line:90%
Yes it is.

00:26:33.555 --> 00:26:36.645 align:middle line:90%


00:26:36.645 --> 00:26:39.020 align:middle line:84%
One of the other things I
thought about quite a bit was I

00:26:39.020 --> 00:26:40.440 align:middle line:90%
wanted to do it all myself.

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:45.720 align:middle line:84%
So I done all the
construction by myself

00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.170 align:middle line:84%
on my house, both my
house and the green house.

00:26:48.170 --> 00:26:51.400 align:middle line:90%


00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:53.350 align:middle line:84%
I really don\'t have
a schedule out here

00:26:53.350 --> 00:26:55.910 align:middle line:84%
so but there is
always something to do

00:26:55.910 --> 00:26:59.080 align:middle line:84%
and then there is also plenty
of time to sit back and relax.

00:26:59.080 --> 00:27:06.340 align:middle line:90%


00:27:06.340 --> 00:27:09.700 align:middle line:90%
My water collection system is.

00:27:09.700 --> 00:27:13.620 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve got a huge green house
roof that has gutters on it.

00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:15.980 align:middle line:84%
So when it rains it
collects in the gutters

00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:33.750 align:middle line:84%
and it goes into
big storage tanks.

00:27:33.750 --> 00:27:36.170 align:middle line:84%
I experimented with off
grid living a little bit

00:27:36.170 --> 00:27:37.810 align:middle line:90%
before I left upstate New York.

00:27:37.810 --> 00:27:41.050 align:middle line:84%
I had a little camp I set
up and I live out there

00:27:41.050 --> 00:27:43.390 align:middle line:84%
summer and rent my
big farm house out

00:27:43.390 --> 00:27:46.120 align:middle line:84%
to folks from New York
city that wanted a weekend

00:27:46.120 --> 00:27:50.700 align:middle line:84%
place for the summer
and I learned not really

00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:53.520 align:middle line:84%
to make sacrifices but
learned a different way

00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:57.690 align:middle line:84%
of living where you don\'t
constantly need electricity

00:27:57.690 --> 00:28:00.310 align:middle line:84%
pouring out of every
corner of your house.

00:28:00.310 --> 00:28:08.550 align:middle line:90%


00:28:08.550 --> 00:28:14.110 align:middle line:84%
For me it was more about living
a simple lifestyle and living

00:28:14.110 --> 00:28:17.405 align:middle line:84%
debt free and it\'s kind of
being a high-tech pioneer.

00:28:17.405 --> 00:28:24.070 align:middle line:90%


00:28:24.070 --> 00:28:27.820 align:middle line:84%
Especially in the way
the world is so crazy now

00:28:27.820 --> 00:28:29.100 align:middle line:90%
with so much going on.

00:28:29.100 --> 00:28:33.720 align:middle line:84%
It\'s nice to able try to
see how much of my own needs

00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:47.390 align:middle line:90%
I can really provide for myself.

00:28:47.390 --> 00:28:51.420 align:middle line:84%
I do have a phone line that
provides my phone and internet

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:54.730 align:middle line:84%
access but other than
that I\'m disconnected.

00:28:54.730 --> 00:28:58.630 align:middle line:90%


00:28:58.630 --> 00:29:01.530 align:middle line:84%
Although I not really
a hermit because I

00:29:01.530 --> 00:29:03.890 align:middle line:84%
have as many as
50 people watching

00:29:03.890 --> 00:29:05.480 align:middle line:90%
one of my webcams every day.

00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:09.310 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve got 1300 people
reading my blog every day.

00:29:09.310 --> 00:29:13.920 align:middle line:90%


00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:17.030 align:middle line:84%
I get input and
feedback on things

00:29:17.030 --> 00:29:20.930 align:middle line:90%
I\'m doing but from a distance.

00:29:20.930 --> 00:29:24.060 align:middle line:84%
I don\'t have to be around them
and I kind of appreciate that.

00:29:24.060 --> 00:29:32.450 align:middle line:90%


00:29:32.450 --> 00:29:34.640 align:middle line:90%
The quiet is unimaginable.

00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.730 align:middle line:90%
It\'s just so quiet out here.

00:29:37.730 --> 00:29:40.690 align:middle line:84%
I remember when I first
moved to New York City

00:29:40.690 --> 00:29:43.367 align:middle line:84%
how I couldn\'t go to sleep
tonight because of the noise

00:29:43.367 --> 00:29:45.700 align:middle line:84%
but it wasn\'t because of the
noise but because something

00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:47.480 align:middle line:84%
was going on and I
was missing something.

00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:51.070 align:middle line:90%


00:29:51.070 --> 00:29:53.170 align:middle line:84%
And now is like the
complete opposite, you know,

00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:57.200 align:middle line:84%
I\'m not missing a thing
except this beautiful quiet

00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:03.287 align:middle line:90%
I\'m listening to.

00:30:03.287 --> 00:30:07.370 align:middle line:90%


00:30:07.370 --> 00:30:14.240 align:middle line:84%
There is like a very
vicious way about the web.

00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.080 align:middle line:84%
It\'s that is really subtracts
us but in the same time

00:30:17.080 --> 00:30:17.940 align:middle line:90%
it open us.

00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:20.450 align:middle line:90%


00:30:20.450 --> 00:30:24.240 align:middle line:84%
As we are always reachable,
always our own building finally

00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:28.050 align:middle line:84%
and it brings us back
to some of our roots.

00:30:28.050 --> 00:30:31.090 align:middle line:84%
We can be all together
but by yourself.

00:30:31.090 --> 00:30:36.060 align:middle line:90%


00:30:36.060 --> 00:30:38.740 align:middle line:84%
Finally today I you think
about a housing was is it?

00:30:38.740 --> 00:30:40.580 align:middle line:90%
It\'s a closet.

00:30:40.580 --> 00:30:43.526 align:middle line:84%
It\'s something that you could
find anywhere except that it\'s

00:30:43.526 --> 00:30:45.650 align:middle line:84%
getting sentimental because
you can have everything

00:30:45.650 --> 00:30:50.400 align:middle line:84%
that you have in house,
you can have it elsewhere.

00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:53.040 align:middle line:84%
You can eat better
in a restaurant,

00:30:53.040 --> 00:30:55.650 align:middle line:84%
you can wash yourself
much better in a spa

00:30:55.650 --> 00:30:56.680 align:middle line:90%
and then you have.

00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:00.120 align:middle line:84%
All those elements are
offered in the city

00:31:00.120 --> 00:31:05.760 align:middle line:84%
but still we think about the
housing as the only shelter

00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:10.780 align:middle line:84%
that we could have and it\'s just
basically just very emotional

00:31:10.780 --> 00:31:12.210 align:middle line:84%
because out of
that when you think

00:31:12.210 --> 00:31:15.070 align:middle line:84%
about it\'s just full of
objects that you bring,

00:31:15.070 --> 00:31:32.344 align:middle line:84%
that are just memories but out
of that it could be anywhere.

00:31:32.344 --> 00:31:35.200 align:middle line:90%


00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:38.795 align:middle line:90%
I started in 87 around graffiti.

00:31:38.795 --> 00:31:41.710 align:middle line:90%


00:31:41.710 --> 00:31:43.780 align:middle line:84%
When I used to paint
as a graffiti artist

00:31:43.780 --> 00:31:46.590 align:middle line:84%
I was always chasing
spots in the city.

00:31:46.590 --> 00:31:51.450 align:middle line:84%
Neglected spots but I
was growing intricately

00:31:51.450 --> 00:31:54.810 align:middle line:84%
into a field that
carry on exploring now

00:31:54.810 --> 00:31:58.620 align:middle line:84%
because all of those spots are
all the spots that I organize

00:31:58.620 --> 00:32:01.760 align:middle line:84%
architecture, installation
and works around.

00:32:01.760 --> 00:32:05.810 align:middle line:90%


00:32:05.810 --> 00:32:09.410 align:middle line:84%
We are going be facing
in the next 20-30 years

00:32:09.410 --> 00:32:13.150 align:middle line:84%
really huge amount of
people coming in the city.

00:32:13.150 --> 00:32:16.110 align:middle line:84%
The point is that
architects today

00:32:16.110 --> 00:32:19.510 align:middle line:84%
are only bound to answer to
competition most of the time

00:32:19.510 --> 00:32:21.430 align:middle line:84%
and the problem
about the competition

00:32:21.430 --> 00:32:24.010 align:middle line:90%
is that it never asked the why?

00:32:24.010 --> 00:32:28.130 align:middle line:84%
How can we build
an alternative way?

00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:33.640 align:middle line:90%


00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:36.780 align:middle line:84%
In France we have like a very
long tradition of strike.

00:32:36.780 --> 00:32:41.730 align:middle line:84%
It really came from the
roots of social events

00:32:41.730 --> 00:32:45.810 align:middle line:84%
because finally people
do a lot of striking

00:32:45.810 --> 00:32:48.550 align:middle line:84%
in France but at the end of
the day sometimes they sit

00:32:48.550 --> 00:32:51.750 align:middle line:90%
and then after they go.

00:32:51.750 --> 00:32:55.760 align:middle line:84%
The Auto-Defense project is a
place for them to settle down

00:32:55.760 --> 00:33:04.820 align:middle line:84%
and to try to recreate
a new social scenario.

00:33:04.820 --> 00:33:08.790 align:middle line:84%
So the idea is to create
a city within the city,

00:33:08.790 --> 00:33:11.790 align:middle line:84%
to create a pocket
of resistance that

00:33:11.790 --> 00:33:14.490 align:middle line:90%
could grow inside the city.

00:33:14.490 --> 00:33:21.320 align:middle line:90%


00:33:21.320 --> 00:33:23.630 align:middle line:84%
You use already
manufactured objects

00:33:23.630 --> 00:33:26.329 align:middle line:84%
and you bring it
into the architecture

00:33:26.329 --> 00:33:27.870 align:middle line:84%
so it\'s like ready-made
architecture.

00:33:27.870 --> 00:33:30.670 align:middle line:90%


00:33:30.670 --> 00:33:33.880 align:middle line:84%
Prefab units that you
use on construction sites

00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:36.280 align:middle line:84%
because it\'s very
fast, it\'s very cheap.

00:33:36.280 --> 00:33:38.380 align:middle line:90%
Installation now done.

00:33:38.380 --> 00:33:42.340 align:middle line:84%
All of those elements
can come there by trucks

00:33:42.340 --> 00:33:46.120 align:middle line:84%
and then it could really
grow into to a larger pocket

00:33:46.120 --> 00:33:49.430 align:middle line:84%
and could grow to
something very strong

00:33:49.430 --> 00:34:03.430 align:middle line:84%
so it\'s more about a
strategy then a form.

00:34:03.430 --> 00:34:05.330 align:middle line:84%
I think it\'s not
relevant such much

00:34:05.330 --> 00:34:08.960 align:middle line:84%
anymore to destroy the buildings
because when you destroy

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:11.340 align:middle line:84%
some stuff you destroy
a part of city.

00:34:11.340 --> 00:34:16.130 align:middle line:84%
You destroy the history
of people and transforming

00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:21.570 align:middle line:90%
is actually a very good way.

00:34:21.570 --> 00:34:24.370 align:middle line:84%
The city when you look
at it as an open ground

00:34:24.370 --> 00:34:28.260 align:middle line:84%
there is multiple way, on the
roof top, on the blind wall,

00:34:28.260 --> 00:34:33.440 align:middle line:84%
underneath the bridges,
in-between the buildings,

00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:38.330 align:middle line:84%
on the gaps there is
always a lot of places

00:34:38.330 --> 00:34:46.460 align:middle line:84%
where a parasite
architecture can be put on.

00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:53.730 align:middle line:84%
So the idea about that is
more architectural hi-jack.

00:34:53.730 --> 00:34:56.040 align:middle line:84%
It\'s such a strong
protest, it\'s such a way

00:34:56.040 --> 00:34:58.800 align:middle line:90%
to recreate a schism.

00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:02.940 align:middle line:84%
A city inside a city
that it could bring out,

00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:06.930 align:middle line:84%
it could totally
bring out civil war.

00:35:06.930 --> 00:35:24.700 align:middle line:84%
But if you decided to go by will
to recreate something new then

00:35:24.700 --> 00:35:33.800 align:middle line:84%
for me the violence
is getting legit.

00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:40.630 align:middle line:84%
So we need to find a whole new
definition of living together.

00:35:40.630 --> 00:35:43.340 align:middle line:90%


00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:50.600 align:middle line:84%
I\'ve been working with tents
all my life from I was a kid.

00:35:50.600 --> 00:35:53.760 align:middle line:84%
We had a whole competition
in the neighborhood,

00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:55.460 align:middle line:90%
in the back alleys.

00:35:55.460 --> 00:36:08.799 align:middle line:84%
The guy who had the coolest tent
he had everything to say about,

00:36:08.799 --> 00:36:09.340 align:middle line:90%
he had power.

00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:13.220 align:middle line:84%
So originally those
tents were meant

00:36:13.220 --> 00:36:17.640 align:middle line:84%
to comfort the lives
of three activists.

00:36:17.640 --> 00:36:20.440 align:middle line:84%
It would give them a
more comfortable stay

00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:24.740 align:middle line:84%
during their actions in the,
during their occupations

00:36:24.740 --> 00:36:28.450 align:middle line:84%
of the forrest to stay
there very long time.

00:36:28.450 --> 00:36:32.680 align:middle line:84%
Imagine this tent hanging
very high in the trunk.

00:36:32.680 --> 00:36:36.490 align:middle line:90%
You can not cut down the trees.

00:36:36.490 --> 00:36:40.850 align:middle line:84%
Imagine with lots of them you
can not cut down the forrest

00:36:40.850 --> 00:36:46.950 align:middle line:84%
and the activist still would
have a comfortable stay there.

00:36:46.950 --> 00:36:58.920 align:middle line:84%
It was design by hanging
a circular floor with rope

00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.600 align:middle line:84%
against a trunk
and then you were

00:37:01.600 --> 00:37:03.120 align:middle line:90%
walking against these ropes.

00:37:03.120 --> 00:37:07.770 align:middle line:84%
So I designed a bypass
so you can still

00:37:07.770 --> 00:37:09.760 align:middle line:90%
move around in this tent.

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:10.640 align:middle line:90%
It\'s very spacious.

00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:14.170 align:middle line:90%


00:37:14.170 --> 00:37:18.950 align:middle line:84%
Four meters high and
two sixty in diameter.

00:37:18.950 --> 00:37:20.180 align:middle line:90%
The frame.

00:37:20.180 --> 00:37:23.225 align:middle line:84%
The weight of the steel
frame is 300 kilos.

00:37:23.225 --> 00:37:33.830 align:middle line:90%


00:37:33.830 --> 00:37:40.220 align:middle line:90%
A tent is our common house.

00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:45.760 align:middle line:84%
It\'s not a house but
our common house.

00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:46.970 align:middle line:90%
That\'s makes a difference.

00:37:46.970 --> 00:37:51.390 align:middle line:84%
A house is immediately closed,
it\'s closing everything,

00:37:51.390 --> 00:37:52.210 align:middle line:90%
it\'s not inviting.

00:37:52.210 --> 00:37:55.640 align:middle line:90%


00:37:55.640 --> 00:37:57.860 align:middle line:84%
So it\'s inviting and
it\'s pays respect

00:37:57.860 --> 00:38:00.230 align:middle line:90%
to the privacy of people.

00:38:00.230 --> 00:38:18.180 align:middle line:90%


00:38:18.180 --> 00:38:22.430 align:middle line:84%
Creating your own space,
being able to live where ever

00:38:22.430 --> 00:38:23.740 align:middle line:90%
you want.

00:38:23.740 --> 00:38:28.890 align:middle line:84%
Having some kind of comfort
in the middle of nowhere.

00:38:28.890 --> 00:38:31.920 align:middle line:84%
That is giving my
working practice

00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:46.050 align:middle line:90%
a goal for the rest of my life.

00:38:46.050 --> 00:38:50.240 align:middle line:84%
In a city to work with
public spaces is always

00:38:50.240 --> 00:38:54.180 align:middle line:84%
a problem.Well look here
in the middle of the nature

00:38:54.180 --> 00:39:08.320 align:middle line:84%
it\'s just calm and
easy project here.

00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:13.260 align:middle line:84%
Your hanging there free from the
ground and free from the trunk.

00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:17.370 align:middle line:84%
Just in the space and
space is all around you.

00:39:17.370 --> 00:39:21.320 align:middle line:84%
That is what I
experience here very much

00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.580 align:middle line:84%
and which I\'m looking
for in my work.

00:39:23.580 --> 00:39:27.120 align:middle line:90%
How we relate to each other?

00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:47.340 align:middle line:90%
How we turn around each other?

00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:54.730 align:middle line:90%


00:39:54.730 --> 00:39:58.660 align:middle line:84%
Most of life is happening in
houses of course in the pubs

00:39:58.660 --> 00:40:02.120 align:middle line:84%
and caf??s but that
is still not free,

00:40:02.120 --> 00:40:04.570 align:middle line:90%
not only a free public space.

00:40:04.570 --> 00:40:09.660 align:middle line:84%
Find a free public
space where people

00:40:09.660 --> 00:40:15.280 align:middle line:84%
from all of the city,
all layers of the society

00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.910 align:middle line:84%
are being able to come
together in a free way.

00:40:19.910 --> 00:40:26.870 align:middle line:84%
That is not an easy thing we
can do and most of the time

00:40:26.870 --> 00:40:28.680 align:middle line:90%
we don\'t succeed in this.

00:40:28.680 --> 00:40:33.850 align:middle line:84%
So I think there is
still a lot, a long way

00:40:33.850 --> 00:40:39.020 align:middle line:84%
to go to design
cities in this way.

00:40:39.020 --> 00:40:43.186 align:middle line:90%
Maybe more with textile.

00:40:43.186 --> 00:40:57.200 align:middle line:90%


00:40:57.200 --> 00:41:08.830 align:middle line:90%
It would be great.

00:41:08.830 --> 00:41:11.790 align:middle line:84%
If you get used to a
more confined space

00:41:11.790 --> 00:41:13.650 align:middle line:84%
for your everyday
living situation

00:41:13.650 --> 00:41:16.905 align:middle line:84%
you can really cheat some of the
repressive forces in society.

00:41:16.905 --> 00:41:19.880 align:middle line:90%


00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:23.620 align:middle line:84%
Most children love to build
little cave or something.

00:41:23.620 --> 00:41:26.460 align:middle line:84%
Enclosed space where you can
hide away from the grown ups.

00:41:26.460 --> 00:41:27.450 align:middle line:90%
I\'m still doing that.

00:41:27.450 --> 00:41:40.890 align:middle line:84%
I\'m just making them
a little bit bigger.

00:41:40.890 --> 00:41:43.960 align:middle line:84%
Snail Shell System
is very radical way

00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:47.600 align:middle line:84%
of creating a home that you can
actually roll around yourself

00:41:47.600 --> 00:41:50.370 align:middle line:90%
in front of you.

00:41:50.370 --> 00:41:54.170 align:middle line:84%
You can also use it as a raft
to cross a river or a harbor

00:41:54.170 --> 00:41:58.470 align:middle line:90%
or something like that.

00:41:58.470 --> 00:41:59.400 align:middle line:90%
It was inspired.

00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:02.490 align:middle line:84%
I was staying at
Greenland and I was

00:42:02.490 --> 00:42:05.410 align:middle line:84%
studying the traditional
Inuit culture.

00:42:05.410 --> 00:42:08.800 align:middle line:84%
In the winter time
they would build igloos

00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:12.990 align:middle line:84%
and would build like a whole
village, a whole city in hours

00:42:12.990 --> 00:42:16.110 align:middle line:84%
with, on the snow, sort
of passages and roads

00:42:16.110 --> 00:42:18.309 align:middle line:84%
and they would live
there for like temporally

00:42:18.309 --> 00:42:20.600 align:middle line:84%
for three or four months and
then would split up again.

00:42:20.600 --> 00:42:22.830 align:middle line:84%
And they would do the
same again next winter.

00:42:22.830 --> 00:42:26.390 align:middle line:90%


00:42:26.390 --> 00:42:29.640 align:middle line:84%
So I was fascinated by the
mobility and the temporary sort

00:42:29.640 --> 00:42:33.110 align:middle line:84%
of character of these
kind of dwelling system

00:42:33.110 --> 00:42:35.490 align:middle line:84%
and I wanted to introduce
a similar system.

00:42:35.490 --> 00:42:39.080 align:middle line:90%


00:42:39.080 --> 00:42:44.360 align:middle line:84%
But I think the
most important way

00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.660 align:middle line:84%
it influences people
is that starts

00:42:46.660 --> 00:42:49.700 align:middle line:84%
to make them think about
their own situation

00:42:49.700 --> 00:42:53.260 align:middle line:84%
and if you compare like the
average sort of middle-class

00:42:53.260 --> 00:42:55.620 align:middle line:84%
citizens in the western
worlds normal living

00:42:55.620 --> 00:43:22.150 align:middle line:84%
situation with a nomadic
lifestyle it\'s very different.

00:43:22.150 --> 00:43:25.080 align:middle line:84%
I\'m very interested
in finding ways

00:43:25.080 --> 00:43:27.170 align:middle line:84%
of existing with a small
concentration of power

00:43:27.170 --> 00:43:27.970 align:middle line:90%
as possible.

00:43:27.970 --> 00:43:30.500 align:middle line:84%
That means that we have to
get rid of land ownership,

00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:33.470 align:middle line:84%
we have to get rid
of large bank loans.

00:43:33.470 --> 00:43:36.410 align:middle line:84%
All those things that keeps
us in one position in life.

00:43:36.410 --> 00:43:41.580 align:middle line:84%
That prevents us from using
a large amount of our time

00:43:41.580 --> 00:43:45.450 align:middle line:84%
to be nice to our children
and to be nice to other people

00:43:45.450 --> 00:43:47.120 align:middle line:90%
and to play with other people.

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:51.990 align:middle line:84%
I\'m constantly chasing ways
existing that would free myself

00:43:51.990 --> 00:43:54.040 align:middle line:84%
from the normal
economical system .

00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:56.930 align:middle line:84%
That would keep me
in a fixed position

00:43:56.930 --> 00:43:59.000 align:middle line:84%
in order to pay my bank
loans and so forth.

00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:16.010 align:middle line:90%


00:44:16.010 --> 00:44:19.100 align:middle line:84%
My walking house is a very
peaceful way of existing

00:44:19.100 --> 00:44:21.110 align:middle line:84%
where you have a
very small footprint.

00:44:21.110 --> 00:44:23.272 align:middle line:84%
You can move around
without owning

00:44:23.272 --> 00:44:24.480 align:middle line:90%
the land and stuff like that.

00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:26.360 align:middle line:84%
It\'s a very different
way of living,

00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:28.480 align:middle line:84%
very different social
way of existing.

00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:40.100 align:middle line:90%


00:44:40.100 --> 00:44:42.840 align:middle line:84%
Is about trying to introduce
other way of thinking,

00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.790 align:middle line:84%
you know, other way living
and to start up discussions

00:44:45.790 --> 00:44:48.700 align:middle line:84%
and give people an experience
of something different.

00:44:48.700 --> 00:45:00.010 align:middle line:90%


00:45:00.010 --> 00:45:10.840 align:middle line:84%
And I think the chance of
creating a better world saying

00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:13.610 align:middle line:84%
I want to create a better
world is much bigger then

00:45:13.610 --> 00:45:16.400 align:middle line:84%
if we don\'t want to
create a better world.

00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:19.360 align:middle line:84%
I try to introduce
some kind of hope

00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:25.470 align:middle line:90%
in thinking about our future.

00:45:25.470 --> 00:45:27.730 align:middle line:84%
The thing that would
normally always happen

00:45:27.730 --> 00:45:31.470 align:middle line:84%
when I do something in public
space because it\'s different.

00:45:31.470 --> 00:45:33.500 align:middle line:84%
People get attracted
to it and that\'s

00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:35.850 align:middle line:84%
the starting point
for communication

00:45:35.850 --> 00:45:37.510 align:middle line:90%
on many different levels.

00:45:37.510 --> 00:45:38.950 align:middle line:90%
People get an experience.

00:45:38.950 --> 00:45:41.190 align:middle line:84%
They feel something,
they feel some kind

00:45:41.190 --> 00:45:44.990 align:middle line:84%
of significant in the situation
and they start talking together

00:45:44.990 --> 00:45:47.280 align:middle line:90%
and you exchange experiences.

00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:51.107 align:middle line:84%
And that\'s what art
is all about, that\'s

00:45:51.107 --> 00:45:52.690 align:middle line:84%
what architecture
is all about, that\'s

00:45:52.690 --> 00:45:53.750 align:middle line:90%
what design is all about.

00:45:53.750 --> 00:45:58.770 align:middle line:84%
And I think if just, you
know, move things a little bit

00:45:58.770 --> 00:46:01.940 align:middle line:84%
in another direction and
make new things happen.

00:46:01.940 --> 00:46:11.440 align:middle line:84%
Then I think your mission
is sort of accomplished.

00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:16.200 align:middle line:84%
Well shelter is most
basic human need.

00:46:16.200 --> 00:46:24.670 align:middle line:90%


00:46:24.670 --> 00:46:30.800 align:middle line:84%
Sleeping bag dress is a kimono
type dress that when inflated

00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.980 align:middle line:84%
it changes into a cylinder or
a cocoon in which a person can

00:46:35.980 --> 00:46:36.480 align:middle line:90%
sleep.

00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:51.970 align:middle line:84%
It comes very much my personal
experiences moving from

00:46:51.970 --> 00:46:55.480 align:middle line:84%
different countries , moving
through different languages.

00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:59.860 align:middle line:84%
Sort of brought up a lot of
questions about belonging.

00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:01.400 align:middle line:90%
Where is my home?

00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:08.690 align:middle line:84%
It has a solar
panel incorporated

00:47:08.690 --> 00:47:11.680 align:middle line:84%
into it and a
small computer fan.

00:47:11.680 --> 00:47:14.760 align:middle line:84%
So the solar panel charges
the battery and computer

00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:19.840 align:middle line:90%
fan operates of the battery.

00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:25.390 align:middle line:90%


00:47:25.390 --> 00:47:30.590 align:middle line:84%
Experimentation was always
there and the idea of belonging,

00:47:30.590 --> 00:47:35.346 align:middle line:84%
the idea of shelter, the idea of
space were we feel comfortable.

00:47:35.346 --> 00:47:40.510 align:middle line:90%


00:47:40.510 --> 00:47:42.870 align:middle line:84%
But that mobility
that this process

00:47:42.870 --> 00:47:46.680 align:middle line:84%
creates I think what
I was after to capture

00:47:46.680 --> 00:47:48.950 align:middle line:84%
this moment in a
sense in between

00:47:48.950 --> 00:47:58.390 align:middle line:84%
because since I left Poland it\'s
always been being in between.

00:47:58.390 --> 00:48:05.940 align:middle line:84%
Today we are more free
in terms of moving

00:48:05.940 --> 00:48:07.770 align:middle line:84%
through those
boundaries then before.

00:48:07.770 --> 00:48:16.150 align:middle line:90%


00:48:16.150 --> 00:48:18.790 align:middle line:84%
I think traveling
really is the best

00:48:18.790 --> 00:48:23.480 align:middle line:84%
way of opening an eye to
differences, to different,

00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.650 align:middle line:90%
experience differences.

00:48:25.650 --> 00:48:28.975 align:middle line:84%
And then hopefully also
become more tolerant

00:48:28.975 --> 00:48:29.766 align:middle line:90%
to the differences.

00:48:29.766 --> 00:48:38.620 align:middle line:90%


00:48:38.620 --> 00:48:46.350 align:middle line:84%
I was very much interested in
the idea of nomadism and sort

00:48:46.350 --> 00:48:50.440 align:middle line:84%
of which denies the
idea of homeland

00:48:50.440 --> 00:49:01.410 align:middle line:90%
sort of as a place of belonging.

00:49:01.410 --> 00:49:07.710 align:middle line:84%
I believe that the modern nomad
is a person that doesn\'t now

00:49:07.710 --> 00:49:10.267 align:middle line:84%
get stuck in a
particular structures.

00:49:10.267 --> 00:49:14.090 align:middle line:90%


00:49:14.090 --> 00:49:37.850 align:middle line:84%
With that comes
certain open-mindness.

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To feel connected we don\'t
need that much space.

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Maybe it\'s by contrast I
think the idea of being

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close to the body it\'s sort of
related to the question of much

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do you need?

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How much comfort do you need?

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So your protected your kind of
isolated but at the same time

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you are part of the environment.

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My expression presented
the idea of home

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that is basically anywhere.

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Home is where you are.

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I still share the sixties,
you know, fascination

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with technology and the
belief in technology

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and in bettering the world.

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I mean the technology showed
alternative possibilities

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of living and perhaps
people can imagine

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that there are different
possibilities to what they

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are used to.

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That opens this
flexibility of imagination

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including how we
perceive the world.

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