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Creative Houses from Reclaimed Stuff-Dan Phillips: Review
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Creative Houses from Reclaimed Stuff-Dan Phillips: Review
The Talk’s title is “Creative houses from reclaimed stuff” delivered by Dan Phillips, a designer, and builder of affordable houses from reclaimed and recycled materials. As the Talk indicates, his goal is to divert waste from a landfill while, concurrently, providing sustainable and inexpensive housing for people. The houses are energy-efficient, relatively cheap, and satisfying to build - and wildly, effervescently creative. He can use any material regarded as a reject as long as he has enough multiples to create a pattern that adds an artistic flair.
Among his main points is to embrace your individuality without succumbing to societal pressures, which, according to him, is among the significant causes of waste. For every perception that humans have, it needs to tally with the one before to ensure continuity. However, creating patterns ensures that the expectations we have in place of continuity are met, thus creating a new expectation. That, in turn, makes sure that there is minimal waste in the building industry because what would otherwise be considered rejected gets repurposed. Quoting Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The birth of tragedy” (1885), he urges people to take that Dionysian perspective to life where they do not seek crisp, pre-meditated, and perfect designs such as the apollonian perspective.
Similarly, he encourages people to get reacquainted with their primal needs as per Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which will, in turn, enable them to make decisions that are effective in their daily lives. To emphasize this point, he highlighted the fact that housing has been ...