In Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs, shelter is, if not job one (there is breathing, water, and excretion, after all), somewhere in the second tier of importance. What if the garment you wear is all the shelter you have, protection from the elements, home? What to Where, a participatory workshop Saturday, August 16 from 2-5 PM at the South Waterfront AiR studio (3623 SW River Parkway) looks at clothing as shelter as well as an “extension of the self as place” with “the person as building block for city.” This is where it fits into  Sojourn Theatre‘s larger project, BUILT, which touches in both at South Waterfront and PICA’s TBA Festival.

This Saturday, Sojourn Theatre’s costume designer, Courtney Davis, leads a workshop for you to create a functional costume-shelter using materials she’ll provide. “Be inspired by a pre-fab house, an inner tube, a porcupine, a raincoat, a seatbelt, or a hamster ball. Get ready to tape, staple, hot glue, and sew, if you can. It’s Lucy Orta, meets Project Runway, meets urban planning, with no experience necessary,” Davis says.

Read more about Sojourn Theatre‘s BUILT Public Engagement Series at the South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program
at Sojourn’s website.