It is fair to say that the interest you have in the following product will largely depend upon where you live. That’s because if you live in somewhere like Birmingham or Paris then tsunamis aren’t likely to be high on your list of concerns. However, in some parts of the world it is a big danger and the recent tsunamis in Japan inspired Australian designed Matt Duncan...

Molo, a design firm in Canada, has created a comfortable and cheap housing innovation designed for disaster relief situations. The Softshelter is a system that was designed to create personal space in a communal shelter. It provides people or families with privacy during hard times. To demonstrate how useful the Shoftshelter is, one member of the Molo design team has volunteered...

When a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit central Italy in 2009, more than 250 people died and around 65,000 people were left homeless. The tragedy inspired a group of designers to create a concept portable shelter that would be useful in emergency situations like this. Cyprian designer Letymbiotis Konstantinos made a concept portable shelter called the ‘Home-Economic...

One of the deadliest tragedies the world can face is nuclear disaster. With the recent Japanese nuclear catastrophe, the public’s awareness has been drastically increased. A young Hong Kong-based designer came up with a design that can be used as a shelter when a disaster happens. Doomsday, created by designer Kacey Wong, is a survival suit that was made to protect...