Week notes #68
WikiHouse configurator - PREVIEW!
Join us this Thursday at 1pm (GMT), get a preview of the upcoming WikiHouse configurator and help us test our prototype. Live on our Youtube channel and also available later as a recording. Hope to see you there!
Introducing: 100 Factories
Earlier this year Open Systems Lab successfully secured funding from the Forestry Commission's Timber in Construction Forestry Innovation Fund. The 100 Factories project will help to unlock the collective capacity of small, local manufacturers to produce modular WikiHouse timber building kits, made using wood grown within the UK. Read more about the project.
Video for COP28
If you are interested in how we test WikiHouse blocks, check this short video made by our friends at the University of Edinburgh for COP28 - Thomas Reynolds talks about his work testing WikiHouse blocks at the School of Engineering.
WikiHouse in the Netherlands
2 bits of news from our friends in Almere - first, if you haven’t already, check out this lovely tour of Floris and Danique’s WikiHouse:
And if you want to know more about WikiHouse in the Netherlands, we held a recent webinar (in Dutch) - you can find a recording here: