Hosted by Helene Lesterlin
All the way from Seattle comes a radical model for creating beautiful, affordable, cooperative living spaces in neighborhoods that are at risk for gentrification. We talk about Frolic Community’s origins and celebrate its first built project, now open with 10 homes built on a single-family house lot. Josh and his co-founder Tamara have been able to recombine traditional and cooperative approaches to urban development and ownership to create a utopian yet pragmatic solution to our housing pressures. It’s a model that is extending into the Bay Area, and we wonder if it might be able to come home to Kingston…
Josh Morrison is the co-founder of Frolic Community, a company building cooperatively owned pocket communities in neighborhoods experiencing densification. He approaches development as a designer and planner - with a love of how the smallest details of social, physical, and financial design can shift the larger systems they are a part of. Before co-founding Frolic at MIT, he ran a design collective in Copenhagen, where he studied models of community ownership and living. He holds a Master in City Planning (MCP) from MIT and conducted his bachelors studies in Urban Studies and Environmental Design at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Josh mentioned this Ezra Klein podcast episode in reference to building with a foundation of love, redefining how much love we can give and receive.
