1 | PROJECTS LIST - Tim McCormick | See: tmccormick.org/projects | email tim@tmccormick.org | ||||||||||
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4 | project name | Twitter / URL | description/notes | active | |||||||||
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6 | Casadia Clusters | cascadiaclusters.org | Consulting to non-profit org building tiny homes & small structures | ||||||||||
7 | Mendocello / Mendoviola | Designing & planning a next prototype home for myself: movable, adaptable, light-weight, low-cost. Inspirations from Monticello & Mendocino | |||||||||||
8 | Housing Alternatives Network | umbrella non-profit org for supporting various housing/advocacy projects | 2021 - | ||||||||||
9 | Housing Alternatives Podcast | ||||||||||||
10 | Housing from the Bottom Up | ohna.tmccormick.org | invited article for Sightline Institute, Portland (https://sightline.org) | 2021-12 - | |||||||||
11 | Vehicle Residency | vehicleresidency.net | collaboration on site for this topic, & organizing US national summit with National Homelessness Law Center, Fall 2022 | ||||||||||
12 | tmccormick.org | http://tmccormick.org | redeveloping personal web site | ||||||||||
13 | 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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15 | SEMI-ACTIVE | ||||||||||||
16 | Alternative Shelter Network | http://alternativeshelter.org | Media & research for Portland-based initiative | ||||||||||
17 | HousingDAO | a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) for supporting Housing Alternatives Network. Piloting at https://Superdao.co | 2021 - | ||||||||||
18 | Boxshelves / Flipspace | BoxShelves.tmccormick.org/ | modular storage, shelving, furniture, cabinetry, & storage wall system | 2016- | |||||||||
19 | Kift | https://kift.com | exploring nomad hub network | ||||||||||
20 | Build Small Coalition | forum, web presence, media for Build Small Coalition, Oregon | |||||||||||
21 | HousingWiki | @housing_wiki | open resource for gathering, developing, and discussing materials on housing and land-use. Hosts Village Buildings. | 2017- | |||||||||
22 | Media Distillery | mediadistillery.tmccomick.org | experiments & tools for tracking, analyzing, prioritizing personal media use. Personal librarianship. | 70 | 2013- | ||||||||
23 | 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. | ||||||||||
24 | Topic Pages [pilot with African Architecture] | topicpages.tmccormick.org | Semi-automated, open curating of topic pages | ||||||||||
25 | 50 Ways to Cross a Country | 50WaysToCross.tmccormick.org | book project developed from Nov 2020 cross-country trip & job | ||||||||||
26 | Possibilist | Possibilist.tmccormick.org | Platform for ideation & early-stage project development, funding, equity assignment. | ||||||||||
27 | COMPLETED, INACTIVE, or PROPOSALS | ||||||||||||
28 | Quid Pour Quo | Parley a Barley / parley pour barley | |||||||||||
29 | "Vehicles as Permanent Housing" | Invited presentation for National Vehicle Residency Summit, Nov 18-19, 2022 | |||||||||||
30 | 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. | ||||||||||
31 | PDX Main Streets | https://www.pdxmainstreets.org | Contract consulting and admin support for online media | ||||||||||
32 | Library House | ||||||||||||
33 | NFT art collection illustrating potential housing forms, and as fundraising/membership token for HousingDAO | ||||||||||||
34 | PDX Shelter Forum | pdxshelterforum.org | Portland Forum on Alternative Shelter & Villages - co-organizer of online event, forum, and coalition | ||||||||||
35 | ORCoOp (Oregon Cooperative Housing Network) | orcoop.org, @orcoophousing | advocacy & development co-op, co-director. Supported by SquareOne Villages, Eugene | 2021 - | |||||||||
36 | Summit Village / Proto Village | summitvillage.housing.wiki | Proposal for Mendocino County maker village & retreat center | 2017-18 | |||||||||
37 | Settlements Group | shared research bibliography & research sharing group for issues of marginal & vehicle residency | 2021 - | ||||||||||
38 | NeuroDiversicon | Icon design, generator, registry, NFT collection for Neurodiversity symbol | |||||||||||
39 | 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). | ||||||||||
40 | TiHouse | tihouse.tmccormick.org | designing a prototype low-cost, movable, eco-house for Hawaii. | ||||||||||
41 | R Haus | discussion community site, network DAO with D.F. | |||||||||||
42 | Sightline article: mobile dwellings | invited article for Sightline Institute, Seattle (https://sightline.org) | 2021-12 - | ||||||||||
43 | Houseless Institutional Review Board | HIRB | |||||||||||
44 | 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 - | |||||||||
45 | Eastship | eastship.tmccormick.org | "living book" chapter for current voyaging down W. Coast & to DC, Baltimore, NYC, Boston area June-July 2022 | 2022-05 - | |||||||||
46 | New Starter Homes | NewStarterHomes.housing.wiki | proposed city program to build highly affordable, detachable, ownable, 'starter,' smart, tiny homes in Portland. | 2018- | |||||||||
47 | Wagonmarks | wagonmarks.tmccormick.org | trip and art-making project with Erin Stellmon | 2021 - | |||||||||
48 | The Clearing | site & shelter project explorations with Ben Brownell | 2022-02 - | ||||||||||
49 | Outside Analyst | OutsideAnalyst.tmccormick.org | Proposal for independent homelessness-programs analyst position, at UC Berkeley's Terner Center, etc | ||||||||||
50 | Venture Cooperatives | Developing model of cooperative development of projects, products, ventures | 2016 - | ||||||||||
51 | Everyone Village | everyonevillage.org | consulting to new village for the houseless in Eugene, Oregon. | 2021- | |||||||||
52 | Village Buildings book | VillageBuildings.housing.wiki | community-developed book exploring radical & low-cost "bottom-up" housing strategies | 2018 - | |||||||||
53 | Village Collaborative | VillageCollaborative.net | network for collaboration on Village Model for homelessness & affordable housing - lead organizer | 2016 - | |||||||||
54 | 3000 Challenge | 3000challenge.org | Site & Twitter account to gather, share, build on responses in #3000Challenge public discussion | 2022 - | |||||||||
55 | Silicon Forest | SiliconForest.tmccormick.org | essay & photo-essay about the roots of Oregon's technology sector and Tektronix | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
56 | Webinars / Webforums guide | webinarguide.tmccormick.org | collecting best practices and research on webinars/webforums | 2022-01 - | |||||||||
57 | Hawaii | Hawaii.tmccormick.org | research about Hawaii and for possible visit/stay there | 2021 - | |||||||||
58 | THIA article: What's next for tiny houses in Portland? | for Tiny House Industry Association | 2021 - | ||||||||||
59 | Open Application | reconceiving application processes for cooperative/network goals | |||||||||||
60 | BlockBook (formerly Bitdocs) | blockbook.tmccormick.org | Distributed-published and -funded, network-native books/documents | ||||||||||
61 | Affordable Homeownership Collaborative | ||||||||||||
62 | MobileBooks (Mobiblia?) | mobilebooks.tmccormick.org | mobile-phone size, potentially mass-customized & print-on-demand, microbooks. | 50 | 2012 | ||||||||
63 | Cooperative Product/Project Development | CoopProductDev.tmccormick.org | organizing product development / projects on cooperative ie Rochdale principes, for equity & effectiveness | 2016- | |||||||||
64 | BookFora | BookFora.tmccormick.org | |||||||||||
65 | YIMBY Press / urban books | @pressyimby | |||||||||||
66 | Redictionary / Dictionary of Urbanism | @redictionary | open dictionary & networked registry of critical terms for better communication. Formerly: Critical Jargon File. | 90 | 2014- | ||||||||
67 | Housing Reads for AOC | compiling and resharing suggestings on favorite housing books/resources, invited by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on twitter. | |||||||||||
68 | Podnets | Podnets.tmccormick.org | proposed service for finding & creating pod/videocasts of online events | 2022-02-06 - | |||||||||
69 | Local Streetsigns Project | proposed 2021-11-14 | |||||||||||
70 | Hacking Housing | hackinghousing.tmccormick.org | interview & collaboration with Sophie Maalsen, Univ. Sydney, on funded "Hacking Housing" research initiative. | 2021 - | |||||||||
71 | Houseless In the House / LATimesOut | houseless-led enterprise to review, rate, certify, & contract-support #marginkeeping inclusion work for groups, meetings, events, public outreach, research studies. cf #LATimesOut | 2021- | ||||||||||
72 | Funded Inclusionary Housing | Discussing, researching, formulating a different approach to Inclusionary Zoning / Housing | 2022-01-17 - | ||||||||||
73 | Power Out Loud | Local current affairs show/podcast, partly satirizing Think Out Loud from Oregon Public Broadcasting | |||||||||||
74 | Homephone design | Homephone.tmccormick.org | Designing and customizing mobile phone interfaces/tools for better living | ||||||||||
75 | Social Improver | Assess & incentivize better social-media behaviors | 2022-01 - | ||||||||||
76 | 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 - | ||||||||||
77 | California Housefulness Model | ||||||||||||
78 | A New Pattern Language for Homelessness | nplh.housing.wiki | |||||||||||
79 | The Parable of the Knife | essay, photo essay, & knife-buying guide | |||||||||||
80 | Reser Ranch: past & future Oregon Trails | ReserRanch.tmccormick.org | 2021-05 - | ||||||||||
81 | Houslets | design research on urban, mobile, micro live/work spaces | 90 | 2012- | |||||||||
82 | CrowdlawPDX | bit.ly/crowdlawpdx | discussion group on Crowd Law, deliberative democracy, open government. | 2020 | |||||||||
83 | OpenAid | @OpenAidnet | easy, open posting of needs & offers, via social media. An open, civic 211/311 service. Invited, Covid Accelerator, SF. | 2020- | |||||||||
84 | City Repair Project’s Placemaking Guidebook | proposed new open-collaborative edition of this 2003/2006 book | 2019- | ||||||||||
85 | Algorithmic Media For Good | algomediagood.tmccormick.org | (was, Diffr): intermittent research activity on media diversification tools & ideas. Invited preso MisinfoCon at MIT 2016 | 2016- | |||||||||
86 | Portland Peoples Council | peoplescouncil.tmccormick.org | initiative to study, model, simulate, prefigure, reform, suggest, & build new city government/civic services & system | 2020- | |||||||||
87 | Objet parfait | bit.ly/objet-parfait-doc | Studio & store for design objects | 2018- | |||||||||
88 | Planning Twitter Review | system to run social-media peer review journals. Pitched to USC Price school of planning. | 2019 | ||||||||||
89 | YIMBYwiki | @yimbywiki | Open library for YIMBY/housing advocacy movement. relaunched as HousingWiki. Grant funded 2017-2019. | 2017- | |||||||||
90 | Oakland Alternative Housing Center (OAHCis) | Housing innovation showcase, talks, and demos at the Oakland Containertopia maker warehouse | 2017 May-Nov | ||||||||||
91 | Route Home | @route_home | Creating micro-shelter units in San Francisco using donated Google router cases | ||||||||||
92 | Distributed Autonomous Space | Exploring flexibly creatable and usable, urban building-block structures & spaces, managed by blockchain. | 2015 June | ||||||||||
93 | Knight Houses | @knight_houses | Project to create redeployable housing in San Jose, $40K grant award from Knight Foundation. | ||||||||||
94 | Filterburst | @filterburst | Tools & research for addressing filter bubble & homophily effects. | ||||||||||
95 | CoCloud | @CoCloudcoop | project to create cooperative web-services hosting company. w/Nathan Schneider at al. | 2016 | |||||||||
96 | Tmailr | @tmailr | Extend Twitter interaction to non-Twitter friends via email/txt | 100 | |||||||||
97 | T_sort / FlowSort | @t_sort | open Twitter filtering/sorting | 100 | |||||||||
98 | UberHousing | Proposed joint city/TNC program to convert residential garages to housing, households to TNC / car-share. | |||||||||||
99 | Social Scholar | @SocSchol | prototyping an open social/interest network for science & scholarship. bit.ly/socialscholar-doc | 100 | |||||||||
100 | Open Curate | @OpenCurate | crowd/peer-sourced and -edited document collections, efficiently and transparently produced. | 90 | |||||||||
101 | Diffr | @DiffrMedia | Web Services to diversify media. Continued as BetterMedia (see above) | 80 | 2014 | ||||||||
102 | Bitdocs | @bitdocs | Social Media-native documents & books. E.g. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" in tweet thread, & how to generate | 90 | |||||||||
103 | TwitterFunding | @t_funding | social-media royalties/karma system. Contribute to incent good social-media, get paid when others value yours. | 40 | |||||||||
104 | Twitter Volume Control | @t_volume | limit Twitter to X best tweets per day, for one or all accts or total? | 2014 | |||||||||
105 | When Seniors Take Over the World | book project with author/inventor Steven Johnson | 80 | 2014 | |||||||||
106 | HouseCloud | @housecloud_ | marketplace/platform to find, site, design, build, finance/invest in, & manage affordable/accessory dwellings. | ||||||||||
107 | Tech Urbanism | @techurbanism | discussion thread / text compilation | 70 | 2013 | ||||||||
108 | Open Twitter | public product-development forum/accelerator | 40 | ||||||||||
109 | CommonRead | @CommonRead | Find people interested in reading same books/essays. | 30 | ? | ||||||||
110 | Twitter Bookfinder | 30 | |||||||||||
111 | Another Design is Possible (book) | 10 Contrarian Design Strategies book proposal / draft | 60 | 2013 | |||||||||
112 | Smarter Social-Media Tools for Scientists | invited presentation on recent work, at Spot On London! (formerly Science Online London) | 2013 Nov | ||||||||||
113 | Collaborative Argumentation and Advocacy | https://tjm.org/2013/06/01/collaborative-argumentation-and-advocacy/ | 40 | 2013? | |||||||||
114 | OIGNfactor | Open Interest Graph Network metrics https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/427095560609222656. (a case of "Allmetrics" vs altmetrics) | 60 | 2013 | |||||||||
115 | Open Scholar Rating | http://tjm.org/2013/08/07/proposal-the-open-scholar-rating/ | 50 | 2013 | |||||||||
116 | Collaborative Argumentation and Advocacy 40 2013? | 2013 | |||||||||||
117 | WikiAcad | http://bit.ly/wikiacad | portal/processes for academics & scholarly publishers to create Wikipedia articles | 2012 | |||||||||
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119 | Sparse Connectivity | how to live well and better with super low-cost, low-data (no contract, no data plan!) smartphone use | 50 | 2012 | |||||||||
120 | HumsMatter | a humanities graphic culture store | 10 | 2012 | |||||||||
121 | Open Library of Humanities | co-founded new Open Access publishing platform for humanities research. | 2013 | ||||||||||
122 | Global Open Access Repository | @OARReR | http://tjm.org/2013/06/02/six-ideas-for-a-global-open-access-repository/ | 50 | 2013 | ||||||||
123 | The Multigraph | articles series and proposals about 'multigraph' model as successor to 'monograph' model of book publishing. | 2013 Jan | ||||||||||
124 | Houslets | Beginning of Houslets project (intermittently ongoing to 2019) discussed in NY Times Article by Allison Arieff | 2012 Oct | ||||||||||
125 | Critical Jargon File | Proposal for open, community-sourced, social-media operated, networked reference work. (led to: Redictionary, see above) | 2012 Dec | ||||||||||
126 | Waywalking | mobile tools and smart streets to shape streets for people. | 60 | 2012 | |||||||||
127 | Healthier Information | presentation on media diet methods, at Quantified Self, SF chapter, at Google campus, Mountain View. | 2012 March | ||||||||||
128 | Parking Space Liberation | citizen-sourced registry of parkable spaces. [discussed in Another Design Is Possible]. | 30 | 2012 | |||||||||
129 | iStone | ceramic cellphone docks and enclosures | 10 | 2012 Sept | |||||||||
130 | Senior Startups | proposed Palo Alto program for conversion of seniors' unused residential space to startup office space | 10 | 2012 | |||||||||
131 | Rebooting the Academy | co-edited this book published as e-book by The Chronicle of Higher Education. | |||||||||||
132 | Stanford LiveWire | social-media network for research, with Stanford HighWire Press | |||||||||||
133 | Collaborative Calculator | tool for data journalism on complex public issues like compensation | 40 | 2011 | |||||||||
134 | Ziptrader | platform for pricing & selling used books/goods | 10 | 2011 | |||||||||
135 | Personalized Chinese Lattice Screens | method, modeled on Chinese lattice design techniques, for creating lattices out of one's name or any letters. | 2010 | ||||||||||
136 | Easy-Read Bible design - 6-volume KJV Bible. | My suggested way to create optimally readable/portable Bible edition; illustrated! | 2009 | ||||||||||
137 | Simple Book Rack to add to bookshelves | 2009 | |||||||||||
138 | Book Reduction Club (De-Book Club) | A book club in which you meet to discuss books you are getting rid of. | 2009 | ||||||||||
139 | LiteraryCritic.com | For some years I ran this site which collected, cross-referenced, and affiliate-linked book lists | 1998-? | ||||||||||
140 | furniture, various | various desks, bookshelf units, tables over the years for personal use. | 1993- | ||||||||||
141 | Splash Graphics | t-shirt screenprinting business I ran in high school and occasionally after | 1989-1995 |