This Jacket Designed For Refugees Transforms Into A Tent
During the day, it’s an ultra-lightweight jacket that protects someone from the elements. At night, it expands into a basic tent for a parent and a child, or two spooning adults. Harriet Harriss, a senior tutor at the Royal College of Art in London, who helped guide a team of students to design the new transformable shelter.
"Wearable Shelter" clothing: Designed for disaster, but perfect for the homeless - Core77
Because I walk my dogs late at night in low-foot-traffic areas, I often see homeless people when they are bedding down for the night in their various contraptions, most of them coffin-like. Some sleep in large refrigerator cartons that they fold flat during the day; some have "nested" two or...