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Africa would be an awesome idea, but you'd have to do a lot of work with the locals to get them to see this as a viable shelter. I worked on a project that tri
by bargl 13y ago
Africa would be an awesome idea, but you'd have to do a lot of work with the locals to get them to see this as a viable shelter.
I worked on a project that tried to bring new types of homes to Haiti. This was a HUGE problem because if the locals don't like it (no matter how cool) your idea won't take off.
The fact is that most Haitians thought that wood and corrugated metal were what a "house" was (assuming you couldn't afford a concrete home).
This isn't only African's. You could look at forward swept wings in a similar manner (I'm oversimplifying some of the technical difficulties there though).
- 3838 13y agoi remember someone who did a lot of aid work in africa said something similar - various ngo's would come to a village and build stuff and the locals weren't interested - have heard similar in the amazon. for instance someone had built communal latrines which were unused. his starting point was asking the villagers what they wanted to do they said "the chiefs house is a mess" - so they worked on that first, then built individual latrines for each house and made other improvements - they were able to do this by finding out what the locals wanted and working on that, if he'd just gone and built a bunch of stuff that he wanted to he would have been much less successful.
- paulyg 13y agoI'm interested in what types of homes were being tried in Haiti. Can you share a link or any info?