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Ohio architecture class tackles homelessness
At Ohio State University, Professor Jake Boswell is teaching a unique class that challenges its students to “Design Like You Give a Damn.” Boswell recognizes that designers are most often tasked with creating structures for the upper class, but believes that a shift in architectural focus can help serve as a step toward solving the growing issue of homelessness. One of the projects under construction is called the “Mobile Address,” a structure that provides an address at which homeless individuals can receive mail and use as a workspace. Jane Lanter, co-designer of the Mobile Address, concludes that “solutions do not lie within any one discipline, but that responsibility and ability to find them belong to all disciplines.”
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