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The first cardboard boxes can be dated back to 1817,
more than 200 years after Chinese invented the cardboard material.
From that point on,
cardboard has been present in our daily lives,
sometimes being taken for granted so much,
that it goes unnoticed.
However, Carolina Pino,
a young NYU designer from Santiago, Chile,
has come up with the idea to reuse the abundant material.
Her project is named Shellhouse Living Portable.
They are shelters for the homeless that are traceable
with the use of radio devices.
Have a look.
My name is Carlina Pino,
and my project is called Shellhouse Living Portable.
And it's about collapsible cardboard shelters
for homeless people
using radio devices.
This is the first circuit of the original version of the project,
which is basically composed by a radio, a 3.3 volts regulator,
and a 9 volt battery.
And the circuit goes here.
We have the circuit, which is a hacked MP3 player,
which is a controller, and this one is the one that goes in each shelter.
The project was born from an art project,
and basically asking myself questions about what the role of an artist is today.
The idea of making a network from shelters for homeless people,
it's about making something useful, hopefully,
for a community.
Mark several lines of the same measure,
following the natural stripes of the piece of carboard.
Fold it upwards,
and fold it backwards.
It's kind of an accordion.
Then mark the middle of the whole piece,
and leave 15 centimeters on each side of this mark.
The idea of combining something very cheap, 38 02:14 --> 0:02:20 and something that represented consumerism, such as cardboard,
combined with technology that is meant to be for only a group of people
that have access to it.
I am now working on a second version of the project,
which would make this network visible on the internet or on Google maps.
It's not only about posting your photographs
or writing what you think about something,
but mostly making something for someone else
An inspired effort to aid the less fortunate of our community,
this project shows new possibilities
toward the control and prevention of homelessness.
It helps those who live in the streets of our cities,
in assuring them that they are not forgotten.
Great job, Carolina.