Assistance for Stanford students redesigning the Mongolian Ger?

[HawaiiYurts]

While it sounds like people trying with good intentions, I wonder if it actually will help... or harm. Often when well meaning people get involved to 'improve' things, certain cultures and traditions get obliterated. Mongolia has already been witnessing this at a rather alarming rate. My hope is that you have a good anthropologist in the team and that you would seek out Peter and Muegel Andrews and run this idea by them and read their work on the subject. They are most likely the biggest non-mongolian contributors to have spent their lives preserving ancient Mongolian customs, wisdom and traditions.

In closing; Yurts have been working for the Mongolians for over 2000 years. It might behoove us to consider them the experts who could help us...