{"id":2554,"date":"2009-06-15T07:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2009-06-14T17:46:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T21:46:39","slug":"the-waterpod-has-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"The Waterpod Has Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/waterpod.gif\" alt=\"Waterpod\" title=\"Waterpod\" width=\"220\" height=\"124\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Photographer and sculptor Mary Mattingly works with extending the concept of personal spaces, such as the &#8220;wearable homes&#8221; she designed to function in a variety of environmental conditions.  Now she&#8217;s created the Waterpod, a barge with a living area constructed out of repurposed wood and metal.<\/p>\n<p>She and three other artists will live in this self-sustaining floating home for five months; a garden and a flock of chickens will feed the crew, and they will power their appliances with a wind turbine and an electricity-producing bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to explore alternatives to the overcrowded land, and Mattingly predicts that such living arrangements might be common in the future.  It puts me in mind a bit of Rife&#8217;s Raft in <i>Snow Crash<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaterpod.org\/\">Link<\/a> <i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer and sculptor Mary Mattingly works with extending the concept of personal spaces, such as the &#8220;wearable homes&#8221; she designed to function in a variety of environmental conditions. Now she&#8217;s created the Waterpod, a barge with a living area constructed out of repurposed wood and metal. She and three other artists will live in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}