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Arte Útil archive nr:

228

Initiator:

Lucy Orta

Location:

United Kingdom

Category:

economy, social

Users:

Lucy Orta

Maintained by:

Lucy Orta

Certification:

prototype

Duration:

1992 - 2007

Lucy Orta
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Refugee wear

Description:

Refugee Wear is a project that consists of a series of temporary shelters that can transform itself into items as clothing and transport bags. Habitat, for example, is a prototype that looks like a mountain retreat, which provides a comfortable place to rest. The artist has developed the series Refugee Wear in collaboration with some homeless people whose paths she had followed over a number of years.

Goals:

This project had as its goal to provide a vital refuge, temporary protection, water reserves and medical supplies in many critical cases of homeless people (Kurd refugee population) or a temporary protection and shelter in case of natural disasters such as the Kobe earthquake.

Beneficial Outcomes:

These prototypes offer possible solutions to improve homeless people’s lives and providing temporary protection and shelter in case of natural disasters.

Images:

Lucy Orta, Refuge Wear Habitent, 1992 - 1993. Courtesy: collection of the Artists
Lucy Orta, Refuge Wear City Interventions, 1993 - 1998. Courtesy: The Artists