I was fortunate to stumble upon Project H this Friday , a group of
designers who work with homeless women downtown on Skid Row
http://projecthdesign.org/about.html . They invited us to come to one
of their meetings. I am excited about the idea of working closely with
them because they focus on building marketable skills and developing
multi-purpose designs that respond to the needs of the groups they are
working with. They build hammock-handbags that the women sew in skill
building workshops and a lot of multi-purpose projects along these
lines. They work a lot with textiles and want to work more with youth
because they have discovered a lot of the products they make are youth
oriented (silk screen studio-fabric...I see a connection!).
designers who work with homeless women downtown on Skid Row
http://projecthdesign.org/
of their meetings. I am excited about the idea of working closely with
them because they focus on building marketable skills and developing
multi-purpose designs that respond to the needs of the groups they are
working with. They build hammock-handbags that the women sew in skill
building workshops and a lot of multi-purpose projects along these
lines. They work a lot with textiles and want to work more with youth
because they have discovered a lot of the products they make are youth
oriented (silk screen studio-fabric...I see a connection!).
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