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1 | PROJECTS LIST - Tim McCormick | projects.tmccormick.org | tmccormick.org, email tim@tmccormick.org | ||||||||||
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6 | Possibilist | Possibilist.tmccormick.org | Platform for ideation & early-stage project development, funding, equity assignment. | ||||||||||
7 | 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, based in LA. | ||||||||||
8 | Kift | https://kift.com | exploring nomad hub network | ||||||||||
9 | Sightline article: mobile dwellings | mobiledwelling.housing.wiki | invited article for Sightline Institute, Seattle (https://sightline.org) | 2021-12 - | |||||||||
10 | Eastship | eastship.tmccormick.org | "living book" chapter for current voyaging down W. Coast & to DC, Baltimore, NYC, Boston area June-July 2022 | 2022-05 - | |||||||||
11 | 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 - | |||||||||
12 | TiHouse | tihouse.tmccormick.org | designing a prototype low-cost, movable, eco-house for Hawaii. | ||||||||||
13 | Mendocello | Designing & planning a next prototype home for myself: movable, adaptable, light-weight, low-cost. Inspirations from Monticello & Mendocino | |||||||||||
14 | ORCoOp (Oregon Cooperative Housing Network) | orcoop.org, @orcoophousing | advocacy & development co-op, co-director. Supported by SquareOne Villages, Eugene | 2021 - | |||||||||
15 | 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, trial date set for July 6, 2022). | ||||||||||
16 | Housing Alternatives Network | housingalternatives.org | Developing umbrella non-profit org for supporting various housing/advocacy projects | 2021 - | |||||||||
17 | HousingDAO | housingalternatives.org | a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) for supporting Housing Alternatives Network. Piloting at https://Superdao.co | 2021 - | |||||||||
18 | Build Small Forum | forum, web presence, media for Build Small Coalition, Oregon | |||||||||||
19 | Vehicle Residency | @vehicleresidency | collaboration with Graham Pruss on site for this topic, & organizing US national summit in DC, Fall 2022 | ||||||||||
20 | Mobile Dwelling(s) | 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. | ||||||||||
21 | Eastwind | Eastwind.tmccormick.org | West Coast and cross-continental journey, and trip book | 2022-04 - | |||||||||
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23 | SEMI-ACTIVE | ||||||||||||
24 | Houseless Institutional Review Board | HIRB | |||||||||||
25 | Settlements Group | settlementsgroup.tmccormick.org | shared research bibliography & research sharing group for issues of marginal & vehicle residency | 2021 - | |||||||||
26 | 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 - | |||||||||
27 | Summit Village / Proto Village | summitvillage.housing.wiki | Proposal for Mendocino County maker village & retreat center | 2017-18 | |||||||||
28 | PDX Shelter Forum | pdxshelterforum.org | Portland Forum on Alternative Shelter & Villages - co-organizer of online event, forum, and coalition | ||||||||||
29 | HousingWiki | @housing_wiki | open resource for gathering, developing, and discussing materials on housing and land-use. Hosts Village Buildings. | 2017- | |||||||||
30 | Topic Pages | topicpages.tmccormick.org | Semi-automated curating of topic pages | ||||||||||
31 | Media Distillery | mediadistillery.tmccomick.org | experiments & tools for tracking, analyzing, prioritizing personal media use. Personal librarianship. | 70 | 2013- | ||||||||
32 | Boxshelves / Flipspace | BoxShelves.tmccormick.org/ | modular storage, shelving, furniture, cabinetry, & storage wall system | 2016- | |||||||||
33 | 50 Ways to Cross a Country | 50WaysToCross.tmccormick.org | book project developed from Nov 2020 cross-country trip & job | ||||||||||
34 | COMPLETED, INACTIVE, or PROPOSALS | ||||||||||||
35 | New Starter Homes | NewStarterHomes.housing.wiki | proposed city program to build highly affordable, detachable, ownable, 'starter,' smart, tiny homes in Portland. | 2018- | |||||||||
36 | Wagonmarks | wagonmarks.tmccormick.org | trip and art-making project with Erin Stellmon | 2021 - | |||||||||
37 | The Clearing | site & shelter project explorations with Ben Brownell | 2022-02 - | ||||||||||
38 | Outside Analyst | OutsideAnalyst.tmccormick.org | Proposal for independent homelessness-programs analyst position, at UC Berkeley's Terner Center, etc | ||||||||||
39 | Venture Cooperatives | venturecooperatives.tmccormick.org | Developing model of cooperative development of projects, products, ventures | 2016 - | |||||||||
40 | Everyone Village | everyonevillage.org | consulting to new village for the houseless in Eugene, Oregon. | 2021- | |||||||||
41 | Village Buildings book | VillageBuildings.housing.wiki | community-developed book exploring radical & low-cost "bottom-up" housing strategies | 2018 - | |||||||||
42 | Village Collaborative | VillageCollaborative.net | network for collaboration on Village Model for homelessness & affordable housing - lead organizer | 2016 - | |||||||||
43 | 3000 Challenge | 3000challenge.org | Site & Twitter account to gather, share, build on responses in #3000Challenge public discussion | 2022 - | |||||||||
44 | Silicon Forest | SiliconForest.tmccormick.org | essay & photo-essay about the roots of Oregon's technology sector and Tektronix | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
45 | Webinars / Webforums guide | webinarguide.tmccormick.org | collecting best practices and research on webinars/webforums | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
46 | Hawaii | Hawaii.tmccormick.org | research about Hawaii and for possible visit/stay there | 2021 - | |||||||||
47 | THIA article: What's next for tiny houses in Portland? | for Tiny House Industry Association | 2021 - | ||||||||||
48 | Open Application | reconceiving application processes for cooperative/network goals | |||||||||||
49 | BlockBook (formerly Bitdocs) | blockbook.tmccormick.org | Distributed-published and -funded, network-native books/documents | ||||||||||
50 | Affordable Homeownership Collaborative | ||||||||||||
51 | MobileBooks (Mobiblia?) | mobilebooks.tmccormick.org | mobile-phone size, potentially mass-customized & print-on-demand, microbooks. | 50 | 2012 | ||||||||
52 | Cooperative Product/Project Development | CoopProductDev.tmccormick.org | organizing product development / projects on cooperative ie Rochdale principes, for equity & effectiveness | 2016- | |||||||||
53 | BookFora | BookFora.tmccormick.org | |||||||||||
54 | YIMBY Press / urban books | @pressyimby | |||||||||||
55 | Redictionary / Dictionary of Urbanism | @redictionary | open dictionary & networked registry of critical terms for better communication. Formerly: Critical Jargon File. | 90 | 2014- | ||||||||
56 | Housing Reads for AOC | housingreadsforAOC.tmccormick.org | compiling and resharing suggestings on favorite housing books/resources, invited by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on twitter. | ||||||||||
57 | Podnets | Podnets.tmccormick.org | proposed service for finding & creating pod/videocasts of online events | 2022-02-06 - | |||||||||
58 | Local Streetsigns Project | proposed 2021-11-14 | |||||||||||
59 | Hacking Housing | hackinghousing.tmccormick.org | interview & collaboration with Sophie Maalsen, Univ. Sydney, on funded "Hacking Housing" research initiative. | 2021 - | |||||||||
60 | 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- | |||||||||
61 | Funded Inclusionary Housing | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1483184161120681986?s=20 | Discussing, researching, formulating a different approach to Inclusionary Zoning / Housing | 2022-01-17 - | |||||||||
62 | Power Out Loud | Local current affairs show/podcast, partly satirizing Think Out Loud from Oregon Public Broadcasting | |||||||||||
63 | Homephone design | Homephone.tmccormick.org | Designing and customizing mobile phone interfaces/tools for better living | ||||||||||
64 | Social Improver | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1479666056687804417?s=20 | Assess & incentivize better social-media behaviors | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
65 | 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 - | ||||||||||
66 | California Housefulness Model | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1457938077872103428?s=20 | |||||||||||
67 | A New Pattern Language for Homelessness | nplh.housing.wiki | |||||||||||
68 | 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 | ||||||||||
69 | 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 | |||||||||
70 | CrowdlawPDX | bit.ly/crowdlawpdx | discussion group on Crowd Law, deliberative democracy, open government. | 2020 | |||||||||
71 | OpenAid | @OpenAidnet | easy, open posting of needs & offers, via social media. An open, civic 211/311 service. Invited, Covid Accelerator, SF. | 2020- | |||||||||
72 | City Repair Project’s Placemaking Guidebook | proposed new open-collaborative edition of this 2003/2006 book | 2019- | ||||||||||
73 | Algorithmic Media For Good | algomediagood.tmccormick.org | (was, Diffr): intermittent research activity on media diversification tools & ideas. Invited preso MisinfoCon at MIT 2016 | 2016- | |||||||||
74 | Portland Peoples Council | peoplescouncil.tmccormick.org | initiative to study, model, simulate, prefigure, reform, suggest, & build new city government/civic services & system | 2020- | |||||||||
75 | Objet parfait | bit.ly/objet-parfait-doc | Studio & store for design objects | 2018- | |||||||||
76 | 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 | |||||||||
77 | YIMBYwiki | @yimbywiki | Open library for YIMBY/housing advocacy movement. relaunched as HousingWiki. Grant funded 2017-2019. | 2017- | |||||||||
78 | 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 | |||||||||
79 | Route Home | @route_home | Creating micro-shelter units in San Francisco using donated Google router cases | ||||||||||
80 | 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 | |||||||||
81 | Knight Houses | @knight_houses | Project to create redeployable housing in San Jose, $40K grant award from Knight Foundation. | ||||||||||
82 | Filterburst | @filterburst | Tools & research for addressing filter bubble & homophily effects. | ||||||||||
83 | CoCloud | @CoCloudcoop | project to create cooperative web-services hosting company. w/Nathan Schneider at al. | 2016 | |||||||||
84 | Tmailr | @tmailr | Extend Twitter interaction to non-Twitter friends via email/txt | 100 | |||||||||
85 | T_sort / FlowSort | @t_sort | open Twitter filtering/sorting | 100 | |||||||||
86 | 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. | ||||||||||
87 | Social Scholar | @SocSchol | prototyping an open social/interest network for science & scholarship. bit.ly/socialscholar-doc | 100 | |||||||||
88 | Open Curate | @OpenCurate | crowd/peer-sourced and -edited document collections, efficiently and transparently produced. | 90 | |||||||||
89 | Diffr | @DiffrMedia | Web Services to diversify media. Continued as BetterMedia (see above) | 80 | 2014 | ||||||||
90 | Bitdocs | @bitdocs | Social Media-native documents & books. E.g. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" in tweet thread, & how to generate | 90 | |||||||||
91 | TwitterFunding | @t_funding | social-media royalties/karma system. Contribute to incent good social-media, get paid when others value yours. | 40 | |||||||||
92 | Twitter Volume Control | @t_volume | limit Twitter to X best tweets per day, for one or all accts or total? | 2014 | |||||||||
93 | When Seniors Take Over the World | book project with author/inventor Steven Johnson | 80 | 2014 | |||||||||
94 | HouseCloud | @housecloud_ | marketplace/platform to find, site, design, build, finance/invest in, & manage affordable/accessory dwellings. | ||||||||||
95 | Tech Urbanism | @techurbanism | discussion thread / text compilation | 70 | 2013 | ||||||||
96 | Open Twitter | public product-development forum/accelerator | 40 | ||||||||||
97 | CommonRead | @CommonRead | Find people interested in reading same books/essays. | 30 | ? | ||||||||
98 | Twitter Bookfinder | https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/409391958323638272 | 30 | ||||||||||
99 | Another Design is Possible (book) | http://tjm.org/2013/10/19/another-design-is-possible-10-contrarian-design-patterns-and-projects/ | 10 Contrarian Design Strategies book proposal / draft | 60 | 2013 | ||||||||
100 | Smarter Social-Media Tools for Scientists | http://tjm.org/2013/11/27/smarter-social-media-tools-for-scientists-spot-on-london-presentation/ | invited presentation on recent work, at Spot On London! (formerly Science Online London) | 2013 Nov |