City of Sydney is presenting a talk next month titled ‘Solving Sydney’s Housing Affordability crisis‘. Here’s the blurb: “Sydney homes are among the priciest in the world. It costs nearly 5 times more to buy a house or apartment today than … Continue reading
Lenny Mitcherson and Leonie Valentine woke to the sound of strangers dismantling their home. From beneath a tarpaulin, they could hear someone removing the steel bars keeping their shanty fortress upright. “They were going to try dragging the tarp out … Continue reading
Last week Craig and Jen from Yurt Empire took part in the latest in late night library nights spreading across the City of Sydney. The title of this chat fest was Sketches … Continue reading
“Housing prices are out of control and without a public housing option to keep inner-city rentals down, private developers will be able to charge what they want. Public housing tenants and people on lower incomes create the diversity, village atmosphere … Continue reading
Join us on the 15th May for the first in a series of public events this winter! SYDNEY, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. Congratulations Sydney, you are now one of the most unaffordable places to live in the world. How did … Continue reading
Yurt Empire is testing the resilience and flexibility of permaculture design principles in complex city systems. Yurt Empire artist Alexandra Crosby has made this the focus of her new exhibition at UTS opening on April 2. Over the last decade what … Continue reading
This August, while Yurt Empire took a well-deserved rest, Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan spent a week in residence at the Summer School for Applied Autonomy, Berlin, doing some hands-on research into what it takes to live off the grid … Continue reading
Yurt Empire artist Tessa Zettel is currently on assignment in Belgrade, as a guest of Belgrade – The Toolkit Project, which is part of the Urban Incubator initiative. Tessa is accompanying Marjetica Potrc, whose team of students from Hamburg University … Continue reading
In association with the exhibition User Generated Architecture, Christof Mayer and Andreas Krauth, from raumlabor berlin, will be running an intensive 2 day Generator Workshop in Sydney. And some of us from Yurt Empire will be participating! The Generator Workshops are international, experimental … Continue reading
Read a nice summary here of the Practical Utopias summit held late September, 2013 on the faraway shores of Istria, written by participant Maja Kuzmanovic (Foam, Brussels). Described as “a site-specific reality game inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s World Game simulation”, Practical Utopias aimed to be … Continue reading
Beyond sustainability. This site is made by 2 UK permaculturalists, Stephen Jones and Michael Thomas. It aims to foster a move towards a pragmatic, positive, social, economic and political transition to a permanent culture through sharing information, knowledge and also … Continue reading
New from Yurt Empire’s Cartography Dept., as published in the forthcoming atlas-catalogue for Baadlands: An Atlas of Experimental Cartography “Yurt Empire treats cartography as another space of occupation, as a device for looking, for positioning and for remaking. The map depicted in this atlas … Continue reading
What a great alternative to capitalism. ‘A market, one of the most inclusive spaces, seems like a perfect context to hint people with different alternatives, evident in the market itself, the products and services, and the way these are traded.These … Continue reading
The map on the left shows which bits of Sydney have access to some form of public transport within 400 metres walk. The map on the right shows which bits of Sydney have access to some form of public transport … Continue reading
This is part of the Resilients project, by FoAM, Belgium Central Saint Martins, UK nadine, Belgium Performing Pictures, Sweden Projekt ATOL, Slovenia Time’s Up, Austria ‘Augmented Urban Gardens involves the study, development and use of urban or urban-fringe gardens. We … Continue reading
Next month Yurt Empire Ambassadors Tessa & Sumu will be spending a week in Berlin as residents of this excellent new project by Berlin Farmlab artist Valentina Karga. The ‘Summer School for Applied Autonomy’ is: “a research initiative interested in capturing … Continue reading
Earlwood Farm: an urban agriculture/sharehouse project on 1018 m2 of rented land.
A team of Yurt Empiricists participated in a workshop at Vivid Ideas – Transform your Turf: A Story-Led Game to Co-Design Public Housing, 8th June, 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art . This workshop proposed as its starting point the ‘wicked … Continue reading
“We all love it here. It’s like a bohemian theme park. And we all look the part. We all get some support and encouragement for doing what we do… [while the rest of the country is undergoing a process of Talibanization]”
“If every artist in America’s workforce banded together, their ranks would be double the size of the United States Army.”
“Ecology is a self-perpetuating economy” Milkwood Permaculture, Mudgee
Community Land trusts (CLTs) are community owned and directed form of housing. Unique to this model is removal of the right to sell the property on the private market. Once you elect to buy on a CLT you only … Continue reading