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We use this blog as a resource to discuss the notion of "alternative bodies" in the marketplace and how to design for them/for us. We critique Euro-centric ideology pressed into design and research methods to make room for "alternative bodies" as the focus of artistic creation.

This blog represents the thoughts and art work of our studio class -- by students in architecture, design, illustration, sculpture, graphic and visual arts. We are a hybrid group with many talents.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Common thread of homeless

After I started reading the Criminal of Poverty I started to give more attention when I encounter homeless people. I also try to remember the homeless people in my home country, how do they look like, their ways of survival, their problems.
They definitely have more than one reason of being homeless, some share same reason, while others have other reasons. Most of them look the same, they use same clothes for quite a long time, looks dirty. They seems to be able to survive in their semi permanent home, maybe some of us have noticed that some homeless have lived in their spot for quite a while. But they do not get their spot easily or without any extra effort. I noticed that in US as well as in Indonesia, police continue to raid them, distracting their well being for the sake of good looking city. I somewhat agree that it is a good thing to try to pursue a perfect urban management. But on the other side, I found that some homeless were evicted from their spot without being provided with any new place to live. They will just be neglected and need to start over their journey from the beginning, they need to find a new place to live. It will just become an everlasting cycle in their lives.

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