An Interesting Approach To Housing The Homeless

Here’s an interesting article on how an artist has designed a temporary shelter for the homeless. Since February 1998, these shelters have been given to the homeless in Cambridge, Boston, New York, and Baltimore.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

"Artist Michael Rakowitz feels strongly about the issue of homelessness. So strongly that when he focussed his creative attentions on the subject he began manifesting practical outcomes, specifically the ParaSITE. The parasite is a small, collapsible, double-membrane shelter that uses the escaping warm air from a building’s HVAC system to inflate and warm the temporary home. Rakowitz has now been nominated for a prestigious Index Award for the paraSITE and his work is far from finished."

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