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1 | PROJECTS LIST - Tim McCormick | projects.tmccormick.org | tmccormick.org, email tim@tmccormick.org | ||||||||||
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6 | Housing Alternatives Network | umbrella non-profit org for supporting various housing/advocacy projects | 2021 - | ||||||||||
7 | Housing Alternatives Podcast | ||||||||||||
8 | HousingDAO | a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) for supporting Housing Alternatives Network. Piloting at https://Superdao.co | 2021 - | ||||||||||
9 | Housing Alternatives Collection | NFT art collection illustrating potential housing forms, and as fundraising/membership token for HousingDAO | |||||||||||
10 | "Planning for radical & unforeseen housing" | mobiledwelling.housing.wiki | invited article for Sightline Institute, Seattle (https://sightline.org) | 2021-12 - | |||||||||
11 | Alternative Shelter Network | http://alternativeshelter.org | Media & research for Portland-based initiative | ||||||||||
12 | "Vehicles as Permanent Housing" | https://www.tmccormick.org/writing/vehicles-as-permanent-housing | Invited presentation for National Vehicle Residency Summit, Nov 18-19, 2022 | ||||||||||
13 | Mendocello / Mendoviola | https://www.tmccormick.org/projects/mendocello | Designing & planning a next prototype home for myself: movable, adaptable, light-weight, low-cost. Inspirations from Monticello & Mendocino | ||||||||||
14 | Vehicle Residency Network | vehicleresidency.net | collaboration on site for this topic, & organizing US national summit with National Homelessness Law Center, Fall 2022 | ||||||||||
15 | StayDAO | https://staydao.io/ | Exploring proposals collector platform—based on Possibilist ideas—& co-organization of live/hybrid panel event, with non-profit DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) wing of Stay Open, pod hotel network based in LA. | ||||||||||
16 | tmccormick.org | http://tmccormick.org | redeveloping personal web site | ||||||||||
17 | An Apology for the Builder | buildersapology.housing.wiki | for YIMBY Press: editing, introduction, and design of new edition of Barbon's 1685 essay & related works | 2020 - | |||||||||
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19 | SEMI-ACTIVE | ||||||||||||
20 | Boxshelves / Flipspace | BoxShelves.tmccormick.org/ | modular storage, shelving, furniture, cabinetry, & storage wall system | 2016- | |||||||||
21 | Kift | https://kift.com | exploring nomad hub network | ||||||||||
22 | PDX Main Streets | https://www.pdxmainstreets.org | Contract consulting and admin support for online media | ||||||||||
23 | Topic Pages [pilot with African Architecture] | topicpages.tmccormick.org | Semi-automated, open curating of topic pages | ||||||||||
24 | Build Small Coalition | forum, web presence, media for Build Small Coalition, Oregon | |||||||||||
25 | HousingWiki | @housing_wiki | open resource for gathering, developing, and discussing materials on housing and land-use. Hosts Village Buildings. | 2017- | |||||||||
26 | Media Distillery | mediadistillery.tmccomick.org | experiments & tools for tracking, analyzing, prioritizing personal media use. Personal librarianship. | 70 | 2013- | ||||||||
27 | Mobile Dwelling | mobiledwellings.housing.wiki | Open research article/collection, Google Group, twitter account & hashtag tracking. Also working with Vehicle Residency working group at NLCHP / National Homelessness Law Center. | ||||||||||
28 | 50 Ways to Cross a Country | 50WaysToCross.tmccormick.org | book project developed from Nov 2020 cross-country trip & job | ||||||||||
29 | Possibilist | Possibilist.tmccormick.org | Platform for ideation & early-stage project development, funding, equity assignment. | ||||||||||
30 | COMPLETED, INACTIVE, or PROPOSALS | ||||||||||||
31 | PDX Shelter Forum | pdxshelterforum.org | Portland Forum on Alternative Shelter & Villages - co-organizer of online event, forum, and coalition | ||||||||||
32 | ORCoOp (Oregon Cooperative Housing Network) | orcoop.org, @orcoophousing | advocacy & development co-op, co-director. Supported by SquareOne Villages, Eugene | 2021 - | |||||||||
33 | Summit Village / Proto Village | summitvillage.housing.wiki | Proposal for Mendocino County maker village & retreat center | 2017-18 | |||||||||
34 | Settlements Group | settlementsgroup.tmccormick.org | shared research bibliography & research sharing group for issues of marginal & vehicle residency | 2021 - | |||||||||
35 | NeuroDiversicon | Icon design, generator, registry, NFT collection for Neurodiversity symbol | |||||||||||
36 | Road Rager | RoadRager.tmccormick.org | Essay and case study about being violently assaulted in February 2022. (as of 6/7/22, criminal charges brought by Multnomah County DA). | ||||||||||
37 | TiHouse | tihouse.tmccormick.org | designing a prototype low-cost, movable, eco-house for Hawaii. | ||||||||||
38 | R Haus | discussion community site, network DAO with D.F. | |||||||||||
39 | Sightline article: mobile dwellings | https://www.sightline.org/2022/09/09/were-wildly-underestimating-the-potential-of-mobile-housing/ | invited article for Sightline Institute, Seattle (https://sightline.org) | 2021-12 - | |||||||||
40 | Houseless Institutional Review Board | HIRB | |||||||||||
41 | SCAG ADU program | woodsongassociates.com | consulting project coordinator for Southern California Association of Governments' Accessory Dwellings Program, for municipalities in Orange County, with Woodsong Associates | 2021 - | |||||||||
42 | Eastship | eastship.tmccormick.org | "living book" chapter for current voyaging down W. Coast & to DC, Baltimore, NYC, Boston area June-July 2022 | 2022-05 - | |||||||||
43 | New Starter Homes | NewStarterHomes.housing.wiki | proposed city program to build highly affordable, detachable, ownable, 'starter,' smart, tiny homes in Portland. | 2018- | |||||||||
44 | Wagonmarks | wagonmarks.tmccormick.org | trip and art-making project with Erin Stellmon | 2021 - | |||||||||
45 | The Clearing | site & shelter project explorations with Ben Brownell | 2022-02 - | ||||||||||
46 | Outside Analyst | OutsideAnalyst.tmccormick.org | Proposal for independent homelessness-programs analyst position, at UC Berkeley's Terner Center, etc | ||||||||||
47 | Venture Cooperatives | venturecooperatives.tmccormick.org | Developing model of cooperative development of projects, products, ventures | 2016 - | |||||||||
48 | Everyone Village | everyonevillage.org | consulting to new village for the houseless in Eugene, Oregon. | 2021- | |||||||||
49 | Village Buildings book | VillageBuildings.housing.wiki | community-developed book exploring radical & low-cost "bottom-up" housing strategies | 2018 - | |||||||||
50 | Village Collaborative | VillageCollaborative.net | network for collaboration on Village Model for homelessness & affordable housing - lead organizer | 2016 - | |||||||||
51 | 3000 Challenge | 3000challenge.org | Site & Twitter account to gather, share, build on responses in #3000Challenge public discussion | 2022 - | |||||||||
52 | Silicon Forest | SiliconForest.tmccormick.org | essay & photo-essay about the roots of Oregon's technology sector and Tektronix | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
53 | Webinars / Webforums guide | webinarguide.tmccormick.org | collecting best practices and research on webinars/webforums | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
54 | Hawaii | Hawaii.tmccormick.org | research about Hawaii and for possible visit/stay there | 2021 - | |||||||||
55 | THIA article: What's next for tiny houses in Portland? | for Tiny House Industry Association | 2021 - | ||||||||||
56 | Open Application | reconceiving application processes for cooperative/network goals | |||||||||||
57 | BlockBook (formerly Bitdocs) | blockbook.tmccormick.org | Distributed-published and -funded, network-native books/documents | ||||||||||
58 | Affordable Homeownership Collaborative | ||||||||||||
59 | MobileBooks (Mobiblia?) | mobilebooks.tmccormick.org | mobile-phone size, potentially mass-customized & print-on-demand, microbooks. | 50 | 2012 | ||||||||
60 | Cooperative Product/Project Development | CoopProductDev.tmccormick.org | organizing product development / projects on cooperative ie Rochdale principes, for equity & effectiveness | 2016- | |||||||||
61 | BookFora | BookFora.tmccormick.org | |||||||||||
62 | YIMBY Press / urban books | @pressyimby | |||||||||||
63 | Redictionary / Dictionary of Urbanism | @redictionary | open dictionary & networked registry of critical terms for better communication. Formerly: Critical Jargon File. | 90 | 2014- | ||||||||
64 | Housing Reads for AOC | housingreadsforAOC.tmccormick.org | compiling and resharing suggestings on favorite housing books/resources, invited by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on twitter. | ||||||||||
65 | Podnets | Podnets.tmccormick.org | proposed service for finding & creating pod/videocasts of online events | 2022-02-06 - | |||||||||
66 | Local Streetsigns Project | proposed 2021-11-14 | |||||||||||
67 | Hacking Housing | hackinghousing.tmccormick.org | interview & collaboration with Sophie Maalsen, Univ. Sydney, on funded "Hacking Housing" research initiative. | 2021 - | |||||||||
68 | Houseless In the House / LATimesOut | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1472711043264565249?s=20 | houseless-led enterprise to review, rate, certify, & contract-support #marginkeeping inclusion work for groups, meetings, events, public outreach, research studies. cf #LATimesOut | 2021- | |||||||||
69 | Funded Inclusionary Housing | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1483184161120681986?s=20 | Discussing, researching, formulating a different approach to Inclusionary Zoning / Housing | 2022-01-17 - | |||||||||
70 | Power Out Loud | Local current affairs show/podcast, partly satirizing Think Out Loud from Oregon Public Broadcasting | |||||||||||
71 | Homephone design | Homephone.tmccormick.org | Designing and customizing mobile phone interfaces/tools for better living | ||||||||||
72 | Social Improver | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1479666056687804417?s=20 | Assess & incentivize better social-media behaviors | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
73 | Drinking Coffee in Japanese essay | Chap book for & about Oyatsupan Bakers, Beaverton, OR, the owner and the story behind their "left handed" coffee mugs | 2021 - | ||||||||||
74 | California Housefulness Model | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1457938077872103428?s=20 | |||||||||||
75 | A New Pattern Language for Homelessness | nplh.housing.wiki | |||||||||||
76 | The Parable of the Knife | tmccormick.medium.com/the-parable-of-the-knife-or-when-to-buy-expensive-things-you-may-not-need-cf7d04b69782 | essay, photo essay, & knife-buying guide | ||||||||||
77 | Reser Ranch: past & future Oregon Trails | ReserRanch.tmccormick.org | 2021-05 - | ||||||||||
78 | Houslets | tjm.org/2012/08/30/parking-houses-modular-housing-to-fit-on-city-parking-spaces/ | design research on urban, mobile, micro live/work spaces | 90 | 2012- | ||||||||
79 | CrowdlawPDX | bit.ly/crowdlawpdx | discussion group on Crowd Law, deliberative democracy, open government. | 2020 | |||||||||
80 | OpenAid | @OpenAidnet | easy, open posting of needs & offers, via social media. An open, civic 211/311 service. Invited, Covid Accelerator, SF. | 2020- | |||||||||
81 | City Repair Project’s Placemaking Guidebook | proposed new open-collaborative edition of this 2003/2006 book | 2019- | ||||||||||
82 | Algorithmic Media For Good | algomediagood.tmccormick.org | (was, Diffr): intermittent research activity on media diversification tools & ideas. Invited preso MisinfoCon at MIT 2016 | 2016- | |||||||||
83 | Portland Peoples Council | peoplescouncil.tmccormick.org | initiative to study, model, simulate, prefigure, reform, suggest, & build new city government/civic services & system | 2020- | |||||||||
84 | Objet parfait | bit.ly/objet-parfait-doc | Studio & store for design objects | 2018- | |||||||||
85 | Planning Twitter Review | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dc1EaO2Mr9-HKNDYIC3YE66FzrNTGRlb2xHHQL_3ubE/edit | system to run social-media peer review journals. Pitched to USC Price school of planning. | 2019 | |||||||||
86 | YIMBYwiki | @yimbywiki | Open library for YIMBY/housing advocacy movement. relaunched as HousingWiki. Grant funded 2017-2019. | 2017- | |||||||||
87 | Oakland Alternative Housing Center (OAHCis) | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CcJl6GSHcqO1HsdpCASWJEWjg37LChQ8unhl0fGpTRY/edit | Housing innovation showcase, talks, and demos at the Oakland Containertopia maker warehouse | 2017 May-Nov | |||||||||
88 | Route Home | @route_home | Creating micro-shelter units in San Francisco using donated Google router cases | ||||||||||
89 | Distributed Autonomous Space | https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Distributed%20Autonomous%20Space%22&src=typed_query&f=live | Exploring flexibly creatable and usable, urban building-block structures & spaces, managed by blockchain. | 2015 June | |||||||||
90 | Knight Houses | @knight_houses | Project to create redeployable housing in San Jose, $40K grant award from Knight Foundation. | ||||||||||
91 | Filterburst | @filterburst | Tools & research for addressing filter bubble & homophily effects. | ||||||||||
92 | CoCloud | @CoCloudcoop | project to create cooperative web-services hosting company. w/Nathan Schneider at al. | 2016 | |||||||||
93 | Tmailr | @tmailr | Extend Twitter interaction to non-Twitter friends via email/txt | 100 | |||||||||
94 | T_sort / FlowSort | @t_sort | open Twitter filtering/sorting | 100 | |||||||||
95 | UberHousing | https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UberHousing&src=typed_query&f=live | Proposed joint city/TNC program to convert residential garages to housing, households to TNC / car-share. | ||||||||||
96 | Social Scholar | @SocSchol | prototyping an open social/interest network for science & scholarship. bit.ly/socialscholar-doc | 100 | |||||||||
97 | Open Curate | @OpenCurate | crowd/peer-sourced and -edited document collections, efficiently and transparently produced. | 90 | |||||||||
98 | Diffr | @DiffrMedia | Web Services to diversify media. Continued as BetterMedia (see above) | 80 | 2014 | ||||||||
99 | Bitdocs | @bitdocs | Social Media-native documents & books. E.g. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" in tweet thread, & how to generate | 90 | |||||||||
100 | TwitterFunding | @t_funding | social-media royalties/karma system. Contribute to incent good social-media, get paid when others value yours. | 40 |