What epistemic trespassing is and is not. A thread. 🧵 Does “epistemic trespassing” = “stay in your intellectual lane”. Emphatically no. Nor is the idea an endorsement of gatekeeping. 1/

“In Praise of Floods: The Study of Rivers and Civilization," #JamesCScott's 2020 #AlbertHirschman Prize lecture (43:20-): "a 'flood' is just a river breathing deeply", bounding is trespass, stabilization is often violence. Introduced by @Alondra (38:40) youtube.com/watch?v=YzUP9M…

Nathan Ballantyne #EpistemicTrespassing. from: Ballantyne, Nathan Nathan Ballantyne. "Epistemic Trespassing." Mind, Vol 128, Issue 510, April 2019, Pages 367–395. DOI link: doi.org/10.1093/mind/f…; Free version: Advance Access publication 12 Feb 2018 philpapers.org/archive/BALET-…. Below: Conclusion section

Elissaveta M. Brandon GBS's writing hut at home #ShawsCorner en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw%27s_… (20mi N of where I grew up in London NW9) was 8x8'. My fmr & perhaps next dwelling is close, 8x12'—1:1.5 ratio, like #Thoreau's 10x15' cabin at #Walden, & bricks. I may, like GBS, dub it 'London', as I aim to be based

Brett & Kira Belan transform old vehicles into rolling homes that run on 100% PV solar: no need to charge when "Solar Sailing" (camp to charge when needed). We followed them through their solar road trip to meet Redfoo ❌. Watch the video by Kirsten Dirksen faircompanies.com/videos/they-tu…

excellent article on how smaller housing can help us achieve #HousingSufficiency. With research review; focusing on EU cases x.com/BuildingsCitie… c/Arancha González @DanielABarber @[email protected] Build Small Coalition #downsizing #Sufficiency

Ethereal Forest vengist.⌐◨-◨ 🌶 μ/acc (🪢, 🪢) exeunt.eth Macks Wolfard amazing interview with Portland OG 'villaging' leader, friend, inspiration, nexus figure for so many transformative initiatives, Mark Lakeman. Excellent material for, see also #VillageBuildings Village Buildings open book project. x.com/EthForestDAO/s…

Matthew Lloyd Roberts Recessed Space "dreams of the 60s, of factory-built modular plastic housing without end, of #Archigram’s #PluginCity came up against realities of shoddy System-built modernism…but that dream of automated construction… never [went] away…" Matthew Lloyd Roberts on AI delusions recessed.space/00186-AI-neura…

Alec Karakatsanis why we need decentralized community-response hotlines or hubs that aren't run by police/fire/city departments, and that allow one to specify no-police response. See #OpenAid OpenAid project envisioning how to build such. x.com/equalityAlec/s…

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 minimizing the corruption incentives our land-use laws create: remarkable 1979 Department of Housing and Urban Development study + my proposal for an '#OpenHousing' platform to prototype & advocate such reforms, eg vs new OR Housing Accountability and Production Office / #OHNA x.com/tmccormick/sta… #ORHAPO

Live now: our second panel of the day focuses on construction innovation to address the #housing labor shortage, with Kevin Albert Canvas, Chad Bowker from Capsule, Paul Cardis of On3, Sean Roberts Villa Homes, and moderator Tanaya Srini Department of Housing and Urban Development gsd.harvard.edu/event/the-2024…

Urbanists often look to places like zoning-free Houston, the private places of St Louis, and privately-developed exurban communities like Irvine. There we see rules about land use emerge between residents and via developers. I wrote about another example. 🧵

🧯landless lady ❤️‍🔥 "Put your thumb out" [physically, digitally, etc] — as you're suggesting, and got out of LA via, and are doing and facilitating with this space — is a powerful idea, image, metaphor, phrase, (emoji 🫱?) !

Salim Furth Kevin Erdmann Emily Hamilton Cato Institute Superb. 💥🎯 The Shot Heard Round the World of the coming revolution in building regulations, aimed squarely at imperial overreach of the IntlCodeCouncil and minions, and mercenaries. Uneasy lie the heads that wear this crown. x.com/salimfurth/sta… #CodeCouncil

Salim Furth Kevin Erdmann Cody Vasut Senator Bryan Hughes Mayes Middleton Rep. John Bucy III Faith-Based Housing Initiative this Texas bill #SB864 looks to me exemplary of an unencumbered #FaithHousing approach, e.g. as discussed and advocated by Eli Smith faithbasedhomeschool here: open.substack.com/pub/fbhi/p/the…. A total and instructive contrast to California's #EverythingBagel 2023 #SB4 coxcastle.com/publication-go…

Portland Housing Bureau BRIDGE Housing Home Forward Metro TriMet The Walsh Group Holst Architecture Impact NW showpiece Portland bond-funded housing #HollywoodHUB near where I was born and'd love to live. However, $700k/unit, income-segregated, abuts high-pollution freeway+rail (unlike nearby surface parking!), gives up public land, only 1/3 most-needed < 30% AMI. Is that best we can do?

Michael Andersen benmaritz story idea: How we might build "eight by twelve, four-bit room" (~$300/month) equivalent homes today, to house all. x.com/tmccormick/sta…. Also, for the price of another article fee, we might build a demonstration model. ("Deeds, not words, shall speak me."). #FourBitHome

YIMBYtown for #YIMBYtown2025 Sept 14-16 #NewHaven, I'm invited to present, join panel with Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️, on #homelessness responses. My topic page, comment & #counterpoint welcome: Homelessness is a Housing Diversity Problem tmccormick.org/writing/homele… x.com/YIMBYtown/stat… #HIAHP #HIAHDP