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Stanford Arts Intensive 2015: Tiny Eco Houses

Mobile Art Studio

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A Stanford student-built mobile art space offers rewarding experiences in creativity and sustainability.

By Robin Wander

Three weeks before most Stanford students arrived on campus to start fall quarter 2015, Stanford guest artist David Szlasa was building a portable art studio with a small group of students at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. The studio was built from salvaged scrap material available at the Jasper Ridge maintenance site.

Eleven students enrolled in Szlasa's September studies Arts Intensive course, "Tiny Eco Houses for Artists: Social Practice, Design/Build." The objective of the three-week course was to build a mobile "maker space" – a place where artists can create art – for visiting artists.

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