Urban Foragers {house of eco-drifters}The Urban Foragers is a series of wearable architectures that transform the confining structure of the hoop skirt into portable shelters and gardens. The Urban Forages are designed to support a flexible way of living that can be adapted to a variety of climate changes. Each outfit promotes growing one’s own food supply,from preserving seeds to planting herbs or harvesting local edible plants, which are integrated into the walls of the skirt. The pivotal design element is a lean wooden base with casters, and which can be converted into a cart to facilitate traveling via public transit.
The Mobile Garden Dress is based on a hoop skirt that supports over forty potted plants and also acts as a light domed tent for summer. This piece promotes the planting of edible plants and also acts as an educational tool as the plants are identified with tags.
The Nomadik Harvest Dress is based on the Mongolian ger (yurt). The traditional felt membrane of the ger is replaced with a covering made from secondhand wool sweaters,which provide comparable warmth and waterproofing. This dress is equipped with a pot and stove to cook the local vegetables and plants stowed in the sweater’s pockets into a communal soup. The architectural and cultural references for the third outfit, the Traveling Seedbomb Dress is a teepee hybrid equipped for the storing and sharing of seeds. The design is based on a conical shaped skirt, and which converts into a larger shelter with the aid of hinged struts. The objective of this project is to link all of the structures together to create communal spaces where food,knowledge and stories are shared.
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