Artist, Michael Rakowitz
"paraSITE", 2000
description: Temporary shelter, for homeless in the form of an inflatable plastic igloo that utilizes surplus heat from the city's air ventilation shafts to inflate the shelter and keep it warm.

Since February of 1998, over thirty prototypes of the paraSITE shelter have been custom built and distributed to homeless individuals in Cambridge, Boston, New York, and Baltimore. All were built using materils that were readily available such as bags and tape. The shelters communicated a refusal to surrender, and made more visible the unacceptable circumstancs of homeless life within the city.