The Common Good

The Common Good We are building a mobile tool shop for the grassroots production, repair and maintenance of housing, personal items and wares for houseless folks in Eugene

in 2012, designBridge received a Project Grant from The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics for a proposal addressing their theme, “Capitalism and the Common Good.”

designBridge proposed a process of direct community engagement with those most marginalized by capitalism, to support the agency of all citizens in shaping their own lives. The Common Good team set out to design a model process th

at could be repeated by citizens in other cities, by documenting their process of research, inquiry and dialogue to identify the needs that they were most suited to address. through this process, The Common Good recognized that the lack of common infrastructures of production was greatly suppressing the productive capacities and needs of marginalized urban citizens. students are now designing a mobile tool shop and make station that will be malleable to the changing needs of houseless Eugene residents, serving as a scaffold for a variety of needs, which may include: shelter construction, tent repair, bike maintenance or wares fabrication. in May of 2013, The Common Good partnered with Opportunity Village Eugene [OVE], an innovative model for self-supported transitional housing in West Eugene on the make-station. The Common Good blog: http://thecommongood.designbridge.org/
Opportunity Village Eugene website: http://www.opportunityvillageeugene.org/
designBridge website: http://designbridge.org/

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Thanks to Around the O for sharing our project this week! It's been a goal of this project from the beginning to inspire...
09/22/2014

Thanks to Around the O for sharing our project this week! It's been a goal of this project from the beginning to inspire folks to take on their own project - hopefully some of this will reach out and touch someone!

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-students-build-mobile-tool-trailer-help-homeless

For homeless Eugene residents, building a brighter future is now a literal phrase.Students from the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts along with community volunteers from Eugene’s Opportunity Village — collectively calling themselves The Common Good — have been working nearly two years to fu…

Thanks to everyone who came out for the ribbon cutting this last Saturday - we had a wonderful time fixing bikes and cel...
09/15/2014

Thanks to everyone who came out for the ribbon cutting this last Saturday - we had a wonderful time fixing bikes and celebrating the completion of this new piece of infrastructure for the residents of Opportunity Village Eugene, and for the community at large. We have more photos coming, but here is a peek at some of the festivities of the day. Thanks again to all who helped make this project possible, INCLUDING (but not limited to!): S.L.E.E.P.S., Reality Kitchen, First Christian Church, Saturday Market, Marty at Larry's Sheet Metal, the good people at Allied Building Products and Multi-Craft Plastics, Northwest RV Supply, Jim and Glenn at Platt Electric and sooooo many more! Will get more photos up soon, and keep everyone updated on where to find our final project/process documentation. Thank you everyone!

photo credit: Andrew Heben

In typical architecture student fashion we were up a little late the last night before the event getting our finish deta...
09/15/2014

In typical architecture student fashion we were up a little late the last night before the event getting our finish details installed - but we had a good time doing it, and plenty of light!

Thanks to the AAA for this beautiful piece about our project and upcoming event.
09/12/2014

Thanks to the AAA for this beautiful piece about our project and upcoming event.

The public is invited to the debut of a mobile tool shop for houseless people needing to make, repair or maintain housing, bicycles, and other personal items. The event, which will include workshops on bicycle and dwelling maintenance such as tent repair, will take place Saturday, September 13, at O…

We're getting reeeeeealy close y'all! Breaking out the lights this week to get the finishing touches on. Looking forward...
09/11/2014

We're getting reeeeeealy close y'all! Breaking out the lights this week to get the finishing touches on. Looking forward to seeing everyone out at the celebration this Saturday!

Hey Everyone! We are having a ribbon cutting celebration this Saturday, the 13th at 1pm!free bike repair clinicOVE hut m...
09/08/2014

Hey Everyone! We are having a ribbon cutting celebration this Saturday, the 13th at 1pm!

free bike repair clinic
OVE hut maintenance
food and drink
discussion of project process, and product details

all happening out of our favorite new addition to the Eugene physical landscape: The Common Good Mobile Workshop!

Come by, check it out, lend your skills on some tools to help fix up some OVE huts for winter, eat food and be merry!

here are some photos of the build process of our mobile workshop. Most taken on site, at the trailer's various homes thr...
09/08/2014

here are some photos of the build process of our mobile workshop. Most taken on site, at the trailer's various homes throughout the Eugene-Glenwood-Springfield area. let us know what you think!

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3698 Franklin Blvd
Eugene, OR
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