Shelter in a Cart: New Designboom Competition
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 12.15.05
We love Designboom's competitions- thousands of people submit so many wonderful ideas. The current competition is less cheerful than others but much more important:
Shelter in a Cart
Design a cart that can provide shelter and storage.
Urban homeless use carts to carry their possessions and to collect goods (like bottles, cardboard, etc.) that they then return to various recyclers in exchange for cash. This provides a small and valuable income. It is essential that your cart design not only accommodates all these functions but that it is affordable (for production and for private parties or charity organisations who wish to donate them). Read more and enter by February 28 at ::Designboom
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