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 by
Glenn Costin
Ok,
so its called a 'QuickHut', yeah? So what's so quick about
it?!
The design
brief stated that it should go together in less than 4 hrs using unskilled
labour: This thing went together in just over 2 hrs with a multicultural
team of he's and she's who had never seen it before and couldn't even
speak the one language.
That's what's
so quick about it!!
As one onlooker
from another stand put it -
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I watched you guys getting started and thought 'they're going
to be a while at that, I can get on with something here' - next
thing I look up there's a house! Leaving me to think 'where the
#@% did that come from???'" |
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Designed
to be reassembled by just about anyone in just about any environment,
the QuickHut 2000 was more than just a success in construction design.
The hut was in some ways a Trojan horse, carrying a message of cooperation
and team work - and of what may be achieve by young enthusiastic
people when faced with a project that challenges their intellect
as will as their skills [we'll just ignore what the mythical Trojan
horse was carrying]. The young people from various APEC countries
who became involved in the reassembly were justly proud of their
efforts, to the point the orange tee-shirts [the QuickHut reassembly
colours] were seldom removed throughout following days. Some even
wore them on stage during their own country's cultural event, so
strong was the team spirit established in just a few hours.
Three
of the Australian team aided in the reassembly. Two trades people
and the third, actually a student of Early Childhood studies at
University. Whilst the trades people, Wes & Jacob, helped in deciding
what went where and how - it was the seemingly odd fit of our non
trades person, Shannon, that really made the team come together.
Her skills as a 'peoples' person, a team builder, were what bonded
the confusion of languages, both verbal and non verbal, into cooperation
and understanding. Once more demonstrating the value of the so called
'soft skills' in the vocational work place.
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To
all those involved in the reassembly we don't have to say well done
because you KNOW it was well done. You were there, you did it, you
felt it - Hey we were only watching and WE felt it...! |
Representatives
from the participating APEC countries involved in the reassembly process:
CANADA
Manon Therrien,
graphic design
Derek Molinski, autobody repair
HONG
KONG - CHINA
Wing-wai Wong,
painter
MALAYSIA
Abdul Latif Husain,
carpentry/woodwork
Latifah Yusof,
batik painter
TAIWAN
Yi-cheng Tung, carpentry
KOREA
Giseop Lim,
design engineering
Seungyong Lee,
electrician
Jaesoo Hong,
plumber
Representatives
from JAPAN
and additonal representatives from
KOREA also
participated.
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Participants
proudly sign their names on the completed Quick Hut structure
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Photos
taken by Glenn Costin
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