The Homeless Studio Featured on Laist!
Feb. 3, 2017
By: Tim Loc
Read the full article here: http://laist.com/2017/02/03/usc_house_pods.php#photo-1
Homes For Hope by The Homeless Studio Featured on Fastcodesign!
Feb. 1, 2017
By: KATHARINE SCHWAB
Read The Original Article Here: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3067572/the-25k-pod-that-could-ease-las-homelessness-crisis
Karen Hoffman Joins the MADWORKSHOP Family as a Board Member!
As Chair of Product Design and Director of the Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory (CMTEL) at ArtCenter College of Design, Karen is instrumental in introducing new design research processes, curriculum and vision-casting projects with numerous sponsors including Microsoft, HTC, Nike, Vodafone, HP and Nestle. She created the strategy for CMTEL in partnership with the former…
The Homeless Studio Featured on Architectural Record!
MADWORKSHOP Students Develop Modular Homeless Shelters for L.A.
Homeless Studio on USC’s front page!
Architecture students design houses for L.A.’s homeless Trojans apply their skills to social ills, designing prototypes for temporary shelters that could work in the real world By: Joanna Clay | Categorized: Social Impact When architecture student Jayson Champlain set out to build his first house, he didn’t go to vendors or Home Depot. He went…
Homeless Studio Featured on Archinet!
At USC’s ‘Homeless Studio’, Students Work Towards Real Solutions to the City’s Homeless Crisis By: Nicholas Korody Just a few miles from the University of Southern California campus, Skid Row contains a significant portion of the homeless population of Los Angeles, a city in the midst of a declared state of emergency with nearly 47,000 people in…
Homeless Studio Featured in Azure Magazine!
Architecture Students Imagine Housing Solutions for L.A.’s Homeless Tasked with devising shelters for those living on the street, University of Southern California students ask themselves: what is the architect’s role in solving homelessness? When Los Angeles voters cast their ballots on November 8 (predominantly for Clinton), they also ticked off their support for a local measure: to put…
Behnaz Farahi Receives 2016 Innovation Award for Caress of the Gaze!
The inaugural winner of the Fast Company 2016 Innovation By Design Linda Tischler Award is Behnaz Farahi, whose 3D-printed garment reacts to the human gaze with actuator-driven movements based on data about the person looking at it. Part garment and part interface, it reacts to its surroundings as if it were a living part of…
WIRED | Strikingly Imaginative Structures for Housing LA’s Homeless
Wired.com | By: Sam Lubell IF YOU’VE RECENTLY driven the streets of Los Angeles, you’ve probably noticed a striking uptick in the city’s already huge homeless population. Encampments are still centered in downtown’s Skid Row, but many more tents, shopping carts, and makeshift shelters are popping up on sidewalks, in parks, near overpasses, and under…