Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Photos of Community Interiors

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

As an architect and photographer, I have the conventional capabilities you 
would expect of such a person.  I'd be interested in helping to accumulate, 
process and store cohousing graphics in kind of a database format:  some sort 
of standardized approach to site plan / common house plan / and typical 
dwelling units, keyed to photos showing what things look like, really.  I could 
receive, process, tag and upload graphic files -- but I'm not sure that Picasa 
(or Zenfolio, the one I use) is really the right place.  Maybe the National 
website is a better choice.

How would we get this started?

Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

> On Dec 13, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> If someone wants to take on doing this and puts them someplace like picasa
> or flickr, it's very easy for me (as cohousing.org webmaster) to them make
> slideshows that automatically update when new pix are added.  Categorizing
> them is best :)  Picasa I like better because flickr slideshows don't start
> automatically.
> 
> (Flickr Examples:
> http://mosaic-commons.org/plans
> http://mosaic-commons.org/chplans
> http://mosaic-commons.org/site )
> 
> A fun project would be to go google maps satellite views of communities,
> like the one of Mosaic on this page: http://mosaic-commons.org/site
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     - cat
> 
> Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
> Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
> Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org
> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Daniel Lindenberger <
> daniel [at] smallboxcms.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I love this idea. I wonder if any communities would be interested in
>> contributing floor plans and other design details as well?
>> 
>> I think it would be amazing to be able to do some research at some point on
>> the relationships of our architecture & design, and the way that it has
>> shaped our community, our activities, our conflicts etc.
>> 
>> I'd happily contribute pictures from Windsong and try to seek images from
>> other Canadian cohousing projects.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Sharon Villines <
>> sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was recently at Cornerstone which has a lovely guest room. It was light
>>> and airy and very conveniently furnished. I took pictures to bring back
>> to
>>> our guest room pod. Our strategy has been pretty much Salvation Army and
>>> donations.
>>> 
>>> Our rooms don't have sun and donations have been of very dark wood. Not a
>>> happy sight. We are now refurbing and the ideas from Cornerstone were
>> very
>>> helpful in convincing the Pod that we could do better. (It also helped to
>>> have evidence that others _were_ doing better.)
>>> 
>>> BUT the point of this is that it would be nice to have an archive of
>>> pictures on the Cohousing.org site of:
>>> 
>>> Guest rooms
>>> Laundry rooms
>>> Kids rooms
>>> Workshops
>>> Dining Rooms
>>> Kitchens
>>> Etc.
>>> 
>>> It would a fabulous way to do research. Many communities are now old
>>> enough to begin redesigning spaces. We are planning to redesign our
>> kitchen
>>> in the next 5-10 years. This kind of resource would be so helpful.
>>> 
>>> I am not offering to build the archive but would contribute photos from
>>> Takoma Village if we had such an archive.
>>> 
>>> Sharon
>>> ----
>>> Sharon Villines
>>> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
>>> http://www.takomavillage.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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