EVENT 19 WEARABLE SHELTER Due to environmental disasters, human rights violations, civil unrest or even homelessness issue, there are people who are forced out of their homes, stripped of value or identity, and reduced to their physical bodies. How can clothing as the most intimate form of shelter respond psychologically and physically to these traumatized bodies? Clothing-making techniques of weaving, wrapping, stitching, and folding extend into architectural space while providing solutions to typological issues of emergency shelters like multi-functionality, portability, space-saving, and adaptability. Event theme is an extension of the idea of developing an
understanding of the relationship of human body with the space that surrounds them. Dressing of an individual provides a definition of personal space as do architectural structures even though they are different in scale. Both Architecture and Fashion address psychological perceptions, and spatial structures. Both disciplines start with the human body and expand on ideas of space and movement, serving as outward expressions of personal, political, and cultural identity. This is a collaborative event between the Manchester School of Art and Grumpy, whereby the participants were required to produce “wearable shelters� that serve as protective all-weather garments in the day and insulating dwellings at night.
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VIANO VIANOONIOMOH ONIOMOH
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COCOON SKIRT. ABBEY COSTELLO MAHEEN MANSOOR
The ‘Cocoon skirt’ design came from looking at boned garments in fashion and a butterflies natural protection.
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VICTORIAN SHELTER. ROXANA ANTISTESCU LAURA ADRIANA PASCALE
Redefining urban shelters with elegant clothes of a crinoline skirt and an umbrella. Both items have a double functionality while not changing their shape: the umbrella has an incorporated chair while the skirts adapts into a tent.
BUBBLERY TENT BUBBLERY TENT B U B B L E RY T PEIYIN LOI P EYANG I Y I NLOIL O I PEIYIN ZIYI ZI Y I YANG YANG ZIYI
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The camping camping shower shower The Nguyen Nhat Nhat Vy Vy Pham Pham Nguyen N G U Y E N N H A T V Y PHAM Patricia Paskina Patricia P A T R I C Paskina IA PASKINA
THE CAMPING SHOWER.
purpose for this project is The purpose Thefor purpose for this The this project is camping. When leaving a city project is camping. When leaving camping. When leaving a city for camping, shower is what for camping, shower shower is what is a city for camping, we need but not able to nd in we need but notbut able toable nd to in what we need not the camping camping area. area. So, So, we we made made the find in the camping area. So, this portable portable shower shower to to bring bring this we made this portable shower the urban comfort from the the urban comfort from the to bring thecountryside. urban comfort from city to the ci ci city to the countryside. the to tank the countryside. The The city water tank for the the shower shower The water for is made of a beach ball, which water tank for the shower is made of a beach ball, whichis is opened opened on top to to the is made of a on beach ball,llllwhich is top the water in and a bottle lid is atat-in opened on top to fill the water water in and a bottle lid is tached to the the bottom to lock lock tached to to and a bottle lid bottom is attached to the and let let the the water water run run down. and bottom to lock and let down. the water This shower turns into aa light light This shower turns into run down. This shower into box packback packback to to carry carryturns around box around aand light box backpack to carry all the the shampoo shampoo bottles bottles and all around and allinside the the shampoo are contained curare contained inside the curbottles are contained inside the tains tains
curtains.
WAVESHELL. LEE SHU KUI SOPHIE BELL
The idea of this wearable shelter is to explore the possibility of urban sustainable clothing, in order to show out the dynamic of a piece of garment. The material include vine, foam fabric and coated nylon, the transformation of the garment, is a sense of poetry.
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COLLABORATORS
Ruth - Grumpy
Lydia - Grumpy
Dr. Annie Shaw
Allan - Grumpy
Keat Yaw - Fashion