Community Vision Stage
Be inspired by thought leaders and shifts in housing trends, policies & initiatives, along with innovative, historical and healthy approaches to planning and public spaces.
10:00am
Welcome to Fest 2019 with all of the Fest movers + shakers!
10:15am KEYNOTE:
Sustaining Sustainability: Regenerating the Practice of Life
with Bill Reed
11:30am
Vermont’s Current Housing Landscape?
with Becca Balint + Maura Collins
12:00pm PANEL:
Tiny Houses—Wedging Open the Conversation About Housing and Community
with John Connell (moderator), Mary Simons + youth journalists of Conversations From the Open Road, Stephen Marshall, Ingrid Pixley, and Mary Chapman
1:00pm
Living Well by Design: Developing Healthy Physical + Social Environments
with Darcy Jameson
1:30pm
The Past & Future of Tiny Houses and Mobile Living
with Lee Pera
2:00pm PANEL:
What is the Future of the Tiny House Movement?
with Ethan Waldman (moderator), Lina Menard, Domenic Mangano, Jewel Pearson, and Lee Pera
3:00pm
Neighborhood Prefab Factories: Barn Raisings for Today’s Housing Crisis!
with John Connell
3:30pm
Lakota Tiny House Nation
with Mary Collins
4:00pm
The Lift House | Building High Efficiency Tiny Houses for the Underserved
with Tolya Stonorov + Cara Armstrong
4:30pm
Compassionate Sustainability
with Hank Louis
Design/Build Stage
Learn about all the systems that go into designing & building your next tiny, right-sized & sustainable home.
12:00pm
Don't Get Sketched-Out over SketchUp
with Jacob Mushlin
12:30pm
Tiny House Design Considerations
with Lina Menard
1:00pm PANEL:
Critical-Thinking with the Head and Hand | Design-Build Education
with Andrew Keller (moderator), and staff + students from Yestermorrow Design/Build School (Britton Rogers), Green Mountain College (Michael Beattie, Aidan Syms), Norwich University (Tolya Stonorov, Jordan Kacur) and Middlebury College (Shelly Pottorf, Justin Morande, and John Henry Hanson)
2:00pm
Your Trailer IS Your Foundation
with Keith Lewis + Jacob Mushlin
2:30pm
Landscape Design Challenges for
Tiny Houses
with Britton Rogers
3:00pm
Vermont Solar Installers
with Morgan Easton, Chris Sparadeo, and Matthew Connors
3:30pm
Rural Studio and the 20K House Project
with Alexandre Landry + Jeremy Aranoff
4:00pm
Making a Lumber List for a 12x16 Tiny House
with Peter King
4:30pm
Designing the Next Generation of Tiny House Trailers: A Live Design Jam
with Steven Wright, Lina Menard, and Keith Lewis
Story Stage
Tiny house dwellers, innovators and educators will tell their personal stories of design, experience, and impact. Come with your questions.
11:30am
Go Small, Go Zero with Vermod Homes and Efficiency Vermont
with Ashley Andreas & Phoebe Howe
12:00pm
The Journey to Going Live on AirBnb with Your Tiny House: Steps from A to Z
with Lauren Hudson + Chris Krieger
12:30pm
Wheel Pad: What's Next in Tiny Accessibility?!
with Libby Smith + Neil Joseph
1:00pm
Follow your D.R.E.A.M.S.—Designing a life that you love
with Jewel Pearson
1:30pm
Designing + Building Your Own Modular Home
with Erin Chase
2:00pm
Mastheads: Fragments in the Field
with Tessa Kelly
2:30pm
Flexetail: Experiential Retail in the Digital Age
with Aidan Syms
3:00pm
Rutland Middle School Youth Build Tiny Houses for Climate Change
with Laura MacLachlan, Pati Beaumont, and students of Rutland Middle School
3:30pm
Quick! Let's Build a Tiny House! | Green Mountain College’s Design/Build Vardo
with Gwen Hobson, Tyler Pastorok, + Michael Beattie
4:00pm
Tiny House Villages Across the Country
with Mary Simons + youth journalists of Conversations From the Open Road
4:30pm
Craft Buildings for Craft Beer: The Alchemist, Lawson’s and Treehouse
with Peter Webster