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

[Daniel Lindenberger (daniel]

I'll happily cede the task to Philip, and look forward to checking it out
and contributing.

Cheers,
Daniel


On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:19 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net>
wrote:
>
>
> 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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