Tents, houseboats, caravans, container dwellings, mobile home parks and mobile cities, transformable dwellings, knock-down houses, domestic interiors in vehicles, wearable architecture, housing for refugees and the "homeless", adjustable floors and ceilings, portable room dividers, sliding walls, folding wall partitions, drapes, mobile rooms, knock-down furniture, expandable and reducible furniture, folding furniture, stacking furniture, multi-functional furnishings, self-propelling furnishings, malleable furniture, modules, furniture on wheels, portable furniture, body-attached furniture, portable communication devices, mobile entertainment and information systems, mobile cooking equipment, portable climate control devices, portable lighting. A central concern of the Modern movement was to increase the dynamic qualities of the home environment, whether by means of flexible floor plans with flowing room sequences that were adaptable to a variety of uses, or with the help of multi-functional interior objects. Today more than ever, the progressively overlapping spheres of work and home, as well as the increasing importance of mobile, unconstrained and flexible lifestyles cause us to search for living options that are independent of fixed patterns and predetermined locations. Here's a look a where we've been in the search for a flexible lifestyle.272pp. wonderful exhibits