Mobile Living
Mobile Living investigates the personalities, culture, network and technological systems already in place and evolving in the new lifestyle of mobile living.
Full-time travel is a rising phenomena. Mobile Living investigates the personalities, culture, network and technological systems already in place and evolving in the new lifestyle of mobile living. Studies were made to show how the technology of mobility – beginning in communications – is challenging the traditional home and expanding the definition of dwelling. Special emphasis is placed upon plugging these mobile living units into emerging, transnational networks of infrastructure and support. The project applies these discoveries and ideas to imagine a new mobile living network and ways to support life on the road.
Exhibited as part of Mobile Living: Skyline Studios, NYC in May, 2006
This groundbreaking 18,000 square-foot exhibition included examples of mobile living such as Christopher Deam’s Airstream CCD, Adam Kalkin’s Push Button House shown at Art Basel Miami, R. Buckminster Fuller’s “Fly’s Eye Dome,” concept cars by Toyota and Scion, Airstream, Buckminster Fuller Institute, HAY, MOD – Modern Objects and Design, Modus, Offecct, Office of Mobile Design, CP Company, and SU11 Architects.
The Press wrote: “Calvo was instrumental in facilitating one of the most provocative, yet purely conceptual parts of the exhibit: a selection of grad school theses on caravan living from Douglas Fanning’s students at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. In one corner of the 18,000 square foot space, a half-dozen color posters depicted incredible ideas for mobile living. One from Andrew Dahlgren illustrated a mobile unit for migrant workers; another envisioned an underwater RV. But the most poetic vision of our new, nomadic lifestyles, was that of a portable meditation room,” and, “One of the excellent and unexpected components was a display of project proposals by a handful of industrial design students from University of the Arts, which consisted only of poster-sized descriptions and small-scale models. There were several gems in that mix, which we plan to investigate and cover further in the near future.”
Students
- Andrew Dahlgren - “Resident Alien”
- Genevieve Dion - “Chrysalis”
- Nancy Hsieh - “DongJing”
- Dominic Muren - “Bromeliad”
- Sara Petrous - “…it’s just an autonomous vehicle that plugs into your house”
- Leah Smith - “Aqua Tourism”
Faculty
- Douglas Fanning
