Yestermorrow Blog

Speaker Series: UrbanFrame Youth Design/Build

October 22, 2018

By Sophi Veltrop, Student Services Coordinator

On November 7, Yestermorrow welcomes Daniel Hewett of Rhode Island School of Design to share about a unique youth design/build program he founded. Learn about nearly a decade of teen/community built projects anchored by UrbanFrame, including a box for the public exchange of love letters, a cooler/teaching pavilion for an urban farm, public art that offers habitat for threatened species, and a sugarhouse that doubles as a veterinary care building.

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Speaker Series: An Ecological Approach to Historic Preservation

October 21, 2018

By Sophi Veltrop, Student Services Coordinator

On October 24, Yestermorrow Design/Build School's speaker series welcomes Nancy Oakley, who approaches the preservation of historic places with respect for ecological and cultural context. Over the past ten years, the Willowbank School of Restoration Arts has been a leader of a new approach to historic preservation in Canada that appreciates the evolving, complex relationships between people and place.

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Alumni Spotlight: Eli Roxby

October 16, 2018

By Becca Kisner
Yestermorrow alumni Eli Roxby shares the story of how his experience in the Cabinets and Built-Ins course made his #vanlife adventure dreams come true. “Let’s buy a van, convert it to a camper, and come back here this summer,” Alice said to me as we climbed up Mt. Crested Butte in a ski lift on a sunny day in March of 2017. That...

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Semester in Sustainable Design - Video Edit

October 16, 2018

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
We had the opportunity to spend the full week building on the site and it’s been incredible! We put a lot of the pieces together beforehand (this process is called prefabrication or prefab for short) so things went together pretty quickly! We’ve had some rain, some cold, and some sweet fall sun to make for an overall beautiful leaf peeping...

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Semester in Sustainable Design - Beginning Construction

October 16, 2018

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
Semester Program Begins Construction
--Written by Hannah We have finally begun construction on our project! We started in our tent on the yestermorrow campus. Here we made about six sections of the floor that were each about 4’x12’ that we could then place together on site. We then loaded these into the truck and headed out to the site! On the site we had more...

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