Reblogging my unconsumption post:

And speaking (on Twitter) of @BoxmanStudios:
This is an apt time to share information about Boxman Studios and its mobile venues: refurbished shipping containers that open, via solar power, in less than 20 minute… — Reblogging my unconsumption post:

And speaking (on Twitter) of @BoxmanStudios:

This is an apt time to share information about Boxman Studios and its mobile venues: refurbished shipping containers that open, via solar power, in less than 20 minutes into 500 square feet of covered space that seats 26+ people. The company transports by truck the containers to each client’s site, placing them where they’re needed.

I must admit that I am a big fan of the idea of converting shipping containers into functional spaces — cargotecture(!) — that serve uses other than industrial cargo containment.

And as someone who’s planned and managed special (fund-raising) events for various non-profit organizations — including an annual seated dinner for 500 people held in a large, clear-span tent in a city park — I can say that Boxman Studios’ venue solution is much more efficient than the rental of tents, flooring, lighting, generators, tables, chairs, bar ware, etc., and the coordination with multiple vendors of delivery of all those rentals, plus the need to pay for labor to install the various items, all the while hoping wind and/or rain don’t affect … well, you get the picture.]

Boxman’s venues are currently available in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the company is based, with plans to provide services in other markets.

The Boxman Studios’ Web site sums up things tidily: *“It’s Crossed Great Oceans and Traversed Massive Continents. It Can Handle Your Next Event.”*

(Disclosure: As you probably can tell, I am a fan of Boxman’s; I also am a fan of Jim Mitchem’s, a personal friend who works with Boxman.)

Solar-Powered Party Box Way More Fun Than Regular Shipping Crate — from Gizmodo

For additional information and photos, visit BoxmanStudios.com.

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September 10, 2010

A great example of shipping container reuse:

“As the efforts to rebuild Haiti after its devastating January 12 earthquake inch along, a medical clinic is headed to the island nation that can be set up quickly and opened straight away.

Pre-built inside a pair of 20-foot-long steel shipping containers that can be loaded onto boats, the clinic is set to arrive in Port-au-Prince around the beginning of June, according to Containers to Clinics, the Dover, Massachusetts-based nonprofit that developed it.

Though the clinic is the first from the nearly two-year-old Containers to Clinics, the organization has bold plans to roll out 50,000 more over 15 years to rural areas ….”

Clinic Made of Freight Containers Heads to Haiti — Architectural Record

Related: March 2009 Unconsumption post about Containers to Clinics

January 2010 post about use of shipping containers as emergency housing

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