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The Happiness Collaborative · 2026

SuperAdobe: Local Earth, Global Practice

A design-build workshop in sustainable, earth-based architecture, where the Happiness Collaborative both joins the build and authors its visual record.

Build Completed, May 2026. Multimedia documentation package to follow.

SuperAdobe earth-based structure under construction

SuperAdobe workshop, build documentation, May 2026

On Making, and Keeping What It Teaches

SuperAdobe is a hands-on workshop in sustainable, earth-based construction at Kean University, run with The Mojave Center. The Happiness Collaborative took two roles at once: hands in the build itself, and authors of its visual record. Camille Sherrod led construction while I led documentation, capturing the process so the knowledge does not evaporate once the structure is finished. The premise is that the joy of making is itself a pedagogical outcome worth preserving. By treating documentation as part of the practice rather than an afterthought, the workshop becomes teachable, repeatable, and shareable well beyond the people who were physically present. A multimedia documentation package follows.

RoleInitiative Team / Creative Documentation
ContextCommunity-Engaged Design
PartnerThe Mojave Center
LeadsCamille Sherrod (Build Lead), Henry Stankiewicz (Documentation Lead)
StatusBuild Completed, May 2026. Multimedia documentation package to follow.

Documentation