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The “wearable habitat”: a refugee coat that turns into a tent

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Interior Design & Textiles students from London’s Royal College of Art (RCA) have designed a piece of clothing with three distinct uses: it is a weather-proof coat, a sleeping bag, and a tent. Their prototype aims to meet the immediate needs of migrating people, with pockets specially designed to store passports, personal documents, and phones. Professors Harriet Harris and Graeme Brooker kicked off the Wearable Habitation project after consultation with Médecins Sans Frontières to understand what refugees…

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The “wearable habitat”: a refugee coat that turns into a tent

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