The product designer's idea for a winter-worthy coat evolved into a system for helping Detroit's homeless lift themselves up.
In 2010, while juggling her courses toward a degree in product design at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies and volunteering at a shelter for some of Detroit’s estimated 20,000 homeless residents, Veronika Scott came upon an idea for a one of her class assignments that has evolved into a small but growing enterprise.
Some of the homeless people she was interacting with at the shelter preferred, for a variety of reasons, to sleep on the street, even during Detroit’s freezing winter months. So she designed a large, warm coat that can be converted into a sleep bag or into a tote, for easy transport.
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