A Houseboat That Sails: Dmitry Orlov talks about the Quidnon

When:
Thursday, May 04, 2017 8:00p -
9:00p

Where:
Artisan's Asylum
10 Tyler Street
Somerville, MA 02143

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Admission:
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Categories:
Innovation, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/226162641200006/

We are going to make kits for affordable 36-foot DIY houseboats that are also good sailboats.


Tiny houses are charming, whimsical and affordable, but don't even try putting one downtown, within walking distance of everything you need and with a million dollar view of the harbor! For that, you need a houseboat, and a slip at a marina. Two years in the making and borne of 10 years of sailing around, living and raising a family aboard, the QUIDNON project is a houseboat that sails. It is a roomy, comfortable, rugged, affordable, mobile tiny house immune to zoning restrictions and floods.


Show up at the Asylum Thursday, May 4 at 8pm and learn all about this project from the people who designed it.


Link to project:


quidnon.blogspot.com


Dmitry Orlov's other work:


cluborlov.blogspot.com


Bio:


Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds de­grees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, In­ternet commerce, network security and advertising.


Starting in 2005, Dmitry has published hundreds of articles, two books and five books of essays. He has given numerous talks and interviews, and delivered keynote addresses at many conferences. His work has been translated into many languages.


A decade ago Dmitry made a dra­matic change in lifestyle, trading dependency and financial security for resilience, self-sufficiency and freedom. He gave up on corporate employment in Boston’s high tech sector, sold the condo and the car, bought a sailboat and set off sailing. This experiment has yielded a wide variety of insights into just how far it is possibly to downscale and simplify one’s lifestyle while remaining productive, comfortable and civilized, which skills and technologies are needed, and which are superfluous. Having to decide which specific elements of technology are appropriate to this lifestyle, which are not, and which are harmful, naturally caused him to focus on the wider problem of making conscious and de­liberate technological choices.

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