 Fiora, I first want to thank my lovely life partner who has grown up with me together and has been tremendously supportive and formative in everything I do and continue to do. Thank you Elizabeth. So this is a journey, life's a journey. My journey is really rather boring I think, but it has some exciting parts including this past week. And I tend to think in pictures and so my journey led me to a thing called passive house which is German based physics way to do low energy and this led me to a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of everything that I perceive. And what this did for me was it led me to a question how do I optimize myself in within the greater systems as a whole with the short time that I have on this planet. And I came to this conscious realization that at some point our species needs to come has become an intertwined with the earth in such a way that we become endemic. Our actions actually intertwine with all systems and at some point we can come to grips with the fact that we aren't endemic species and that we need to understand that the earth as Sonia said will be fine. Mother marches on, right? If we want to be part of this it's our choice whether to align our interactions with these systems or she'll make more. And I start plugging myself into what it is about the way what I do which I'm an architect and I'm a builder. I design and I build stuff and these stuff have very real impact on people and has very real impact on our planet. And as I realize that our designers and builders as a designer builder our responsibilities are actually quite great compared to a lot of people. If I'm a filmmaker or I'm an accountant or I'm a lawyer or I'm a doctor my footprint is kind of sized pretty according with everybody else's but as an architect and builder everything I do will reflect many many generations beyond where I am, right? Because I can walk through Wellington and see buildings that are 100 years old easy, right? So I need to take this serious. And as a species that is threatened by the earth's inevitable return to balance we need to provide as builders and as architects a turnkey system of shelter. A shelter that could be designed, manufactured, assembled, disassembled and reassembled as needed as a climate imperative dictates. And I look now at this and I say well how can this future work? How can it be that this really ossified architectural design and construction system that we live in how can it come into balance with the earth? And I think to myself you know I kept getting really depressed about it because I kept looking at this exponential growth curve exponential growth curve and I just couldn't get past this way of thinking and what I realized was I'm limiting myself to the human species I'm thinking in terms of humankind and so I pulled back and I pulled back and that curve got smaller and smaller the more globally I thought and I said you know that's just a little bump in the overall geologic history of mother right she's she's young and so as I did that I said you know what forget about the growth exponential curve forget about that growth curve we'll get over it some way either we'll feel our way through it or we'll not but at some point it's either gonna gently go down or it's gonna come down this way we don't know how that curve but what does the act of shelter making look like post curve right and I start thinking about this I think you know we're kind of like we're kind of like we need to kind of go beyond in the way we're thinking and I start thinking about this future intertwined existence and I start thinking about sci-fi one of my favorite things to think about in the typical sci-fi thing I'm out in space and my oxygen scrubbers have died and we only got a so much of air left and then I oh on the scope look out there there's an alien vessel the alien vessel and doesn't seem to be anybody there but we're gonna have to go over there maybe they have oxygen scrubbers and I want to go over there but but but my shuttle's gone what happens then oh boy that's really cool so maybe I go out and I clip myself onto the shuttle and I have to open the hatchet it blows me over there I'm going over to space I get to the alien thing and I get there and I work my way in and I find their oxygen scrubber and I just into this disconnect and I put it on my back and then oh I gotta get back to my space but there's no atmosphere so I can't blow myself back pull myself back and I come in and all my crew and they're like and then I come in and I put it down and I magically plug my alien plug into my spaceship and the air starts coming on right so it's that type of universal interconnectivity and compatibility that is the future of shelter making post post exponential growth so I put my brain on that I said okay well if that's the system how do I do it well as designers we can start with taking basic shapes and putting together like simple blocks and these graphically simple shapes can be translated into a universal way to a database that is shared universally by manufacturers by designers by contractors and we will produce widgets in concrete steel or whatever material becomes viable in the future I think at the future of materials is not in extractive materials but in bio materials but the grown materials rather than depleted materials now in the short term none that's going to change but eventually we can evolve past this and we'll be looking at a biologically based way to create space and shelter for us now today this is very basic I've created a modular component system it's being sold it's transforming the way we build a small apartment buildings in the US because it makes building low-energy buildings the same cost as a standard construction makes it super simple but as we move that past we go from just making things to fit to actually being able to program things on very micro levels like I want to plug here or a macro level is core and shell and living in office within larger buildings so how does it work today if you think you'd be honest I don't know how it works I mean we can start as something really really simple we can start with a 30 centimeter module x y and z right it's really simple and then we can kind of expand that module vertically horizontally we can start with an interactive database that is the DNA of the system that tackles structural mechanical electrical plumbing fire communications insulation opaque components transparent components rain screens extra interior finish building physics I mean there's tons we just keep adding to this database we continually can optimize and simplify the system so manufacturers designers and contractors all share the same resources today more effectively plan from all ends design manufacturing construct and we can lock our systems in early we can lock our costs in early we can minimize bending after the concept we can leave our egos at the door and create shelter that was the big idea right I came here and I had my big idea and I came not knowing really what a HF was about because I want to you know looking from the other side of the world on the website like I kind of get it I think I know what's going on it sounds really awesome but I really know what I'm stepping into I said well how do I approach this let's just be completely open and just see what happens and I found myself thinking about this I was talking to Paula Friday night by the fire and I realized that what I was going to present which was what you just saw was really not what I wanted to talk about so I what happened to me and I'm gonna just describe this very quickly so I I rethought I think in pictures that's what you're looking at here's the way I think so we've been building the same way essentially that as we've been building pyramids right that that's the way and you're and we need to change the world and in my sphere of shelter we need to get beyond the the the pyramid part of it so I came here open I came to I looked around and I said wow this is amazing that you know these Edmund Hillary Fellows I've got a bunch of other colleagues who are thinking way big picture who also want to change the world and there this interconnectivity was magic I've been to a lot of places where people are opening their hearts but they're all you know bakers and masseuses I've yet to be in places where I have people that are actual change makes and we came up this idea of harmonic convergence where my actions create a wave but it pushed at the right time I can have somebody who knows blockchain and somebody who knows how to tell a story and somebody who can do Maori indigenous wisdom and somebody can help us relate as people and perhaps that that wave can be amplified at every point by this harmonic convergence of people so my idea got smaller and smaller and smaller but my world expanded and expanded nice and I dared to start thinking of things that I would only think in private I said what if I put my expertise with these other people that know finances and land and law and I start thinking that isn't it really a human right that everybody have a safe comfortable nest human right shelter is a human right and something I would never approach that's too big a picture for me it's too big for my little brain but I looked at this and I said shelter as a human right is a concept that I can now begin to conquer not because of me because I have just the time I got the easy part I got the shelter part you all have all the other parts to start making this frequency grow so what I'm asking of you and we're going to do a session later as sheltered as human right is to jump in the WACA and help us start thinking what are the problems what are potential solutions is just beginning so thank you all very much