Refugee Wearable Shelter wearable tent, jacket, coat for refugees

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Refugee Wearable Shelter wearable tent, jacket, coat for refugees
by Dr Harriet Harriss

  • Awarded April 15, 2016
  • CLIENT: Royal College of Art // Interior Design Program
  • 8.386
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Interior Design & Textiles students have developed an innovative and multi-functional wearable dwelling in direct response to the Syrian refugee crisis, The brief was set by their tutors, Dr Harriet Harriss & Graeme Brooker. The garment is designed to adapt from a jacket with large storage pockets into a sleeping bag and also a tent. Student design team: Anne Sophie Geay (France) Gabriella Geagea (Lebanon) Cassie Buckhart (USA) Eve Hoffmann (Switzerland) Anna Duthie (Scotland) Hailey Darling (Canada) Zara Ashby (England) Ruben Van den Bossche & Giulia Silovy (Belgium).

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Interior Design & Textiles students have developed an innovative and multi-functional wearable dwelling in direct response to the Syrian refugee crisis, The brief was set by their tutors, Dr Harriet Harriss & Graeme Brooker. The garment is designed to adapt from a jacket with large storage pockets into a sleeping bag and also a tent. Student design team: Anne Sophie Geay (France) Gabriella Geagea (Lebanon) Cassie Buckhart (USA) Eve Hoffmann (Switzerland) Anna Duthie (Scotland) Hailey Darling (Canada) Zara Ashby (England) Ruben Van den Bossche & Giulia Silovy (Belgium).

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