Karen Bahr completing 7 Questions before building Flock House model in the NYC Flock House

Karen Bahr is a court interpreter for Spanish.  She is also a member of Faerie Tones folk music band, an Acro Yoga teacher, and sells Faerie ear cuffs on her Etsy site, Same Sky Wings

This week she joined the Palimpsest project at the Flock House Omaha Project. On August 6th she will lead a Yoga Circle Ceremony to introduce a vision for community in future human society. In our future, she explained, “we will be in close quarters in neighborhoods” that are self-sustaining. In addition to new technology, urban gardens and sustainable architecture, “it will require greater cooperation.” To distribute resources and live with security, “we will need to help each other out, and to communicate well with respect and clarity.”

The ceremony will last about a half-hour, to be followed by music, dance, hula hoops and making faerie ear cuffs. Combining serious ideas and playful fun.

When responding to the 7 Questions, Karen saw the NYC Flock House as “a covered wagon crossed with Cinderella’s pumpkin coach.” “Yes,” she wants to spend the night in the Omaha Flock House with her sister, when she comes to visit. She envisions a “water tank hung at the top with some kind of hose coming down. You could also hang planters or trays from the support beams to grow food.” Recycled building materials might come from buildings “that are being torn down or parts being thrown out.”

To design future neighborhoods, we need to “think about mobility needs, and what people from all different walks of life might need.” This would include “safety measures and resource sharing/cooperation.” Mobile self-sustaining Flock Houses “would allow people to easily move to places where there are resources and safety.”

Karen’s design for a Flock House is a model on wheels. It can collapse to become a trailer to transport essentials, or opened into a living or commerce structure.

Karen Bahr’s Flock House on wheels has 4 walls that collapse to fold into the base of the trailer.

The top has windows used with the trailer or when assembling the Flock House.

The folded trailer loaded with supplies and essentials.

The top lashed down like canvas to secure supplies and essentials on the trailer.

Unload and raise the sides to form the Flock House structure.

Roof added to top of Flock House. Integrate windows and door into the side walls.