Student project
Shelter design embraces the most vulnerable citizens
- Designer
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Sofie Casparsen
- Education
- Master
- Subject area
- Industrial Design
- Focus area
- Design for Play
- Year
- 2021
- Collaboration partners
- Kirkens Korshær
Varmestuen Fedtekælderen
Background
Sofie Casparsen explores how design may have a therapeutic effect, for example in the form of an ample bench for two people lying down, in a reaction to public ‘dark design’, which excludes homeless people.
Shelter design embraces the most vulnerable citizens
Play and aesthetic qualities are not the most common elements associated with the chaotic life of socially marginalized people at a day-time shelter. Nevertheless, Sofie Casparsen has incorporated playfulness and inclusion in her design of a shelter for Kirkens Korshær (DanChurchSocial) and Varmestuen Fedtekælderen (Bread and Dripping Basement). She explores how design may have a therapeutic effect, for example in the form of an ample bench for two people lying down, in a reaction to public ‘dark design’, which excludes homeless people.
