In the Open
TEAM: Matteo Pavanello – Università di Ferrara
or “What if everybody was homeless?”
This proposal aims at using public parks as outside sleeping places.
It does so by providing a better environment for the actual dweller of parks, homeless people. Parks can offer great condition for sleeping: no noise, no small rooms but huge spaces in nature, central location and, most important, no rent to pay. In our current cities, many people would love it. The only minimum requirement to satisfy a common lifestyle, is hygiene.
Hence, our proposal is an high tech toilet and shower, able to clean and disinfect itself after every use. This would help homeless people to take care of themself and near them to the rest of society.
The proposed device therefore offers a main extra functions: it is a vending machine of inflatable tents, inviting people to sleep outside in parks.