What if smaller, smarter, structures began spreading in urban cores, filling unexpected spaces and alleviating housing issues? As a designer, writer and entrepreneur, Zane Fischer is excited about using digital fabrication to design tiny houses and small structures that can change the way we live in cities.

Zane Fischer is a lifelong problem solver and solution seeker. He has spent his professional life in a variety of roles balancing big ideas and iterative implementation. The core values Fischer has developed--community, design, creativity, irreverence and always-be-making-something-real--inform his latest endeavor. Extraordinary Structures is part entrepreneurial startup and part social experiment with the goal of creating modular systems and processes for digital fabrication and houses and structures as customizable products and sweat-equity construction kits. Fischer believes that the availability of digital fabrication tools and access to global, open source design can result in smaller, smarter, structures that spread like networks through urban cores, filling unexpected spaces and alleviating housing issues through the manifestation of pocket neighborhoods and compact communities.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx