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“I’ve always loved the idea of a trailer park”, says Jennifer Siegal roughly 3 minutes, 30 seconds into her interview with Noe Tanigawa on Hawaii Public Radio.

For Siegal, the concept of a “third space” for shared activities that fit between the things you do in the privacy of your home and those you do in public) is an important one in her work. And perhaps it should be an important one in our own home, where space is limited and the forces driving development don’t seem to be letting up.

In what was perhaps a reference to our own ongoing Architecture competition, Takigawa asks if Siegal is suggesting the framework of a “New Community Architecture”. No doubt she is.

But Siegal has some interesting things to say about Hawaii as well. 22 minutes in, she touches on the interesting history of the ownership of land and how it might cue us moving forward. A few minutes later she touches on the impact that more responsive, potentially bio-engineered materials, might enable ocean dwellings clad in sharkskin! (ok that’s stretching what she said a little…)

Towards the end she mentioned how creativity can often come out of a lack of resources. That’s something that Interisland Terminal couldn’t agree with more.

If you’re free at 6:00PM today, join us at the UH School of Architecture auditorium to hear Siegal’s lecture: Generation Mobile – The Death of Distance. If you’re not, listen to the long version of the interview between now and then, and it might convince you to make the time.