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H*gley has absolutely abandoned any pretense that they aren't...fucking evil. Even though only like 10 people read their t*mblr I think this might be one of the evilest mobilizations of "digital humanities" I've ever seen
I was going to add a paragraph from Lead Wars on the ILZRO, "research arm" of the lead industry as the lawsuits rolled in, or maybe a reminder of why RI is important to lead activism, but this bit is more fun & timely
I too am very interested in chemical company test houses as tools for political mobilization! This might actually be my most core research interest. Here's Marc Harrison's "Universal Design" house as it appears in "Lead Program Review" minutes, as "Industrialized Housing" rsrch
The project as it was presented in (I believe) Lead Newsletter: "The availability of lumber, for instance, has become a major problem due to insufficiency of land reserves, particularly in Asian countries."/"designed for factory-built mass production anywhere in the world."
Here, in 1979, Popular Science. I'll have to see when (where, and for whom) the "universal design" narrative of this house even emerged. Note the "steel/foam sandwich panels," possibly related to the sandwich panels Alden Dow developed in Michigan http://digital.hagley.org/islandora/object/islandora:2345178#page/1/mode/1up
