Visit Cooper-Hewitt Search Credits

About Events Blog Resources

Shelter
Health
Water
Education
Energy
Transport
Explore the Map

Katrina Furniture Project

The Katrina Furniture Project, formed in response to Hurricane Katrina, creates neighborhood furniture-making workshop facilities using the debris left by storm and helps build the economic and social capacity of neighborhoods in New Orleans that faced experienced severe economic and social challenges even before Katrina. The workshops train community members in making furniture and the fundamentals of business, and function as a neighborhood-based place of work and resource center while residents rebuild their homes. Workshops will make and sell church pews―to replace those lost to the more than ninety churches ruined by the storm―as well as tables and stools, all from recycled wood.

  1. Designer/manufacturer: University of Texas and Art Center College of Design students and faculty
  2. United States, 2006
  3. Wood recycled from Hurricane Katrina debris
  4. Dimensions: 32” h x 72” w (pew), 18” h x 12” w x 18” d (step stool), 29” h x 34” w x 72” d (table)
  5. In use in: United States
Watch the video

Follow

Updates from the Field

  • @designother90: bePRO helmet for motor taxi riders is affordable, locally produced design using fiberglass composite #other90cities http://t.co/B3PNdBFg Link
  • @designother90: Only 9 days left to see #other90cities at the UN, open 12/29 thru 12/31, 1/2 thru 1/6, and 1/9. http://t.co/Wy7tTugP Link
  • @designother90: For those without electricity, bicycle phone charger enables mobile phone to be charged while in transit #other90cities http://t.co/pKAaG2s0 Link
  • @designother90: Only 10 days left to see #Other90Cities at the UN, open 12/28 thru 12/31, 1/2 thru 1/6, and 1/9. http://t.co/CHKwoJBE Link
  • @designother90: Join the Design Other 90 Network! Upload projects, share, connect with, and learn about others' work http://t.co/4yZvIttg #other90cities Link
  • @designother90: Cape Town micro-farms provide settlement residents with agricultural knowledge and income #other90cities http://t.co/ntDJERSv Link
  • @designother90: Join the Design Other 90 Network! Upload projects, share, connect with, and learn about others' work http://t.co/SckreSnj #other90cities Link
  • @designother90: UN closed on December 25 and 26 for Christmas http://t.co/07vQNig7. Please plan your visit to #other90cities accordingly! Link
  • @designother90: Spaza-de-Move-on, a portable rolling cart, provides dignity and ease to informal street vendors #other90cities http://t.co/ff5FSZMK Link
  • @designother90: FT/Citi partner on Ingenuity Awards:Urban Ideas in Action, recognizing innovative urban solutions. Enter http://t.co/RDBOLjz0 #other90cities Link
More

Recent Topics


Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
 
Home | Blog | Events | Resources | About the Exhibition | Credits | Copyright Information | Privacy |  Cooper-Hewitt