#EP6 ALASTAIR PARVIN

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Ben speaks to Alistair Parvin from Wikihoue about his TED Talk, the world housing crisis and the Wikihouse project. WikiHouse is an open-source project for designing and building houses. Its goals are to democratise and simplify the construction of sustainable, resource-light dwellings.

Hello & welcome to episode 6 of the Create More Podcast. This fortnights episode is the with the co-founder of Wikihouse - Alastair Parvin. WikiHouse is an open-source project for designing and building houses. Its goals are to democratise and simplify the construction of sustainable, resource-light dwellings.

Alistair Parvin’s TED Talk

In 2013 Alistair Parvin gave a TED Talk on the democratisation of production - specifically the production of housing and building. Shift the ownership and production of architecture from and for the 1% of society to the 100% of society.

“If you look at the defacto purpose of architecture we are actually working for real estate developers and designing real estate assets for them. Most architects don’t understand that'.”