NYU Designer Carolina Pino’s Shellhouse Living Portable: Technological, Portable, Traceable Homeless Shelters
Carolina Pino, a student at NYU, has created what she calls Shellhouse Living Portable. They are traceable, portable shelters for the homeless. She created it to allow even those less fortunate to network with the world.
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Carton is a symbol of consumerism: a material that highlights the contradictions of the capitalistic world, divided by abundance and misery. It can contain food or objects of any type, and it can be thrown away and be recycled later on. The first carton boxes in history dated back to 1817, the year in which England used this material for commercial shipping. From that point on, carton has been present in our daily lives, sometimes being almost invisible.
But this time, it has been used as the main protagonist in the artwork of a young Chilean designer, a brilliant NYU student Carolina Pino – an artist splitting her time between Santiago, Chile, and New York. Her project is named “Shellhouse Living Portable.”
Carolina explains that her carton shelters for the homeless are the creation of a project that tried to capture something extremely economic by using technology: apparently something that hasn’t been explored, until now. The carton house is equipped with a circuit that transmits radio signals and transforms a simple box into a traceable internet device. Through the internet connection, the “shellhouse” is visible online and traceable inside of the city while navigating on google maps.
An inspired effort to aid the less fortunate of our community, this project can show new possibility towards the control and prevention of homelessness, while also helping those who live in the streets of our cities, and assuring them that they are not forgotten. Bravo, Carolina!
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Tags: Habitat, homeless shelters, living portable, portable, Project, technological, traceable
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