I've always been interested in the whole living within our needs rather than wants thing and the whole small living spaces trend fills me with a certain amount of hope...
That said when I read about the project that Kevin Cyr is currently working on turning a shopping cart into a pop up camper I have to admire his thought process but the need for such a statement/project also fills me with no small amount of despair.
Anyone with half a brain who is not doing the Ostrich thing can see that more than a few systems are broken and FUBAR and SNAFU is the order of the day. So of course, designing for the homeless poor is something of a growth industry... Like I said despair.
There is hope of course and there are a lot of people doing the right thing (as opposed to our bought and paid for politicians) and they deserve our support.
Bruce+
6 hours ago