WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: ADRIAN GIACCA
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE AIAWHV EMERGING PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE

Date:

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Time:

6:00 pm — 7:00 pm

Price:

$5 Donation Suggested, registration required

Platform:

Zoom Webinar

Join ARCollective, the AIAWHV Book Club and discussion group, on September 9, 2021 at 6:00 pm via Zoom as we discuss all things Tiny House! We will begin the night with a presentation from Adrian Giacca, the Principal Designer at the MicroHome Initiative Revelstoke, where he will share his work with us. Following Adrian’s presentation he will answer any question you may have and we hope to have an organic conversation about the chosen topic, Tiny House, with all who attend.

About the Speaker

Adrian Giacca

Adrian Giacca is a Canadian Landscape Designer from Revelstoke British Columbia. Adrian's interest in tiny homes and sustainability has developed through his hands-on education in natural and alternative building technologies. After representing Canada as a delegate at the One Young World Global Youth Summit, Adrian embarked on a 12-month road trip throughout Canada and the United States. He visited unique accommodations, ecovillages, permaculture design centres and cohousing communities to study how people can cooperate as a community while living in relationship to their natural environment.

This adventure led him to Revelstoke where he was determined to make this place home. He quickly recognized that Revelstoke, like many Canadian towns and cities, is in an affordable housing crisis and the rising speculative cost of homeownership has led toward the inevitable gentrification of the people who contribute to community. Adrian has developed a concept that he believes can be replicated throughout North America which blends the tiny home movement, with pocket community zoning called the MicroHome Initiative. In partnership with The Revelstoke Community Housing Society (RCHS) they're proposing to develop a pilot project of MicroHomes in a pocket neighbourhood, creating perpetually affordable homeownership, sustainable lifestyle practices and a renewed connection to people and place.