what I really think is interesting, how quick standards and quality assurance is out of order. I.e. in the case of communication - where the use of personal accounts was not allowed, suddenly clients are contacted via WhattsApp and other means.

You may find this shared document relevant to your questions. It has been co-constructed by many HCI and interaction designers and design researchers all around the world:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_n2yjBZeAw8wIbi-aKhzs65cVKrWJEKx_KNfG4TOLM/edit#heading=h.x6j278j6pna

Every problem has opportunity,before happy ends are usually brutal seas.COVID-19 reveals to us the dire need to invest our intellect in devising medical defences. As a result,this calls us to the action of more advanced usage of purine and pyrimidine analogs like 5-fluorocytosine,8-azaguanine and so on.These have heavily been used in clinical cases to treat cancers by incorporating them into DNA to block uncontrolled cell growth.However,we can undoubtedly design new models of synthetic nucleobases that can ably combat viral,bacterial,fungal,and any microbial enemy.

materials of design objects can also be studied now for its disinfectant properties. Various materials have reacted differently to coronavirus and copper performed better than most common materials such as steel, aluminu, wood, plastic, etc. unfortunately copper material use in design has been reduced significantly today. Maybe we can find it’s use more from now.

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There could be some papers coming soon in the subject, perhaps!

Dear Khuplianlam Tungnung,

I have 2 personal experiences to share:

I was caught up in the middle of a field research in Bologna a few weeks ago. Me and the research team have conducted interviews and research workshops 3 days before Italian lockdown and official quarantine. From this point, all team work has to be quickly adapted in order to keep the project flow. Meetings, building information architecture and prototyping has been easy to adapt to our new scenario. But we had to change a presencial workshop in another city to a online interview. With file sharing feature, it has been possible to share visual material as part of the interview. But we face new challenges with prototype testing. Due to the quarantine scenario, the think-aloud protocol is being changed to cooperative evaluation and the prototype will be shared through invision.

The second experience is with my research group from Brazil. Due to my physical move to another country, we already have started having meetings and discussion through hangouts a long time before covid-19. But our augmented reality field testing had to be paused. Meanwhile, we are preparing testing tools and discussing a parallel research about quarantine interactions.

best,

Adriano Renzi

Design in general, and design of the costume elements in particular, always responds to large-scale challenges with certain changes. In this situation, I think a sustainable trend will be established in fashion, which has recently gained popularity. Fashion should change towards functionality and rationality, and technology of the fashionable goods production - towards environmental friendliness. Accordingly, research in the field of costume and shoe design should be aimed at improving the ergonomics of products and their adaptability to environmental manufacturing methods. Also, the emphasis in design should shift to the development of the goods oriented to domestic consumption and produced by available resources within the country. Fashion will acquire a global sustainable minimalist trend with individual national features. The social differentiation in fashion should be replaced by national differentiation.

For a certain period, we are going to see a surge in the research themes like "Design for the Pandemics", "Disaster Management" etc. However, it will be business as usual later in the academia, the industry and surely in the political gamut.

Basically, the world is going to act like a recently-recovering human being, who is cautious about healthy habits for some time and soon becomes casual/indifferent as it never happened. We will remain adventurous towards the delicate socio-environmental systems and won't subscribe to commonsensical sustainable and often local solutions.

PS: I hope I am proven wrong.

Zoning: A Possible Planning Model for Covid-19 Lockdown and Exit Strategy to Reduce Economic Depression

How we come out safely from Covid-19 pandemic is not going to be easy. This one proposal by researchers seems like a good strategy for lockdown and exit, both, if the world wants to avoid certain economic meltdown. One common problem in most lockdowns: people are still connected by some daily use objects, artifacts, air, etc., in the grocery store, water foundations, shops, etc. What we now see is a nation or state base lockdowns. Exit strategy may need to involve deconstructing society into its fundamental blocks before reconstructing society from these same healed blocks. To deconstruct the research proposes identifying green zones where Covid-19 is less or safe and red zones where its unsafe or difficult to control. The green zones may be connected and the red zones would be lockdown within a town or city also. The red zones would eventually join the green network once it controls the virus spread. Some excerpts: “In France, people are asked to stay within 1km of their homes. Although such a measure significantly slows down the spread, the virus can still travel through the entire network. In a city like Paris, two people who are 2km apart may still share the same grocery shop, and so everyone in this 10km city is connected within five degrees of separation. Instead of enforcing a radius of movement for each individual, as is the case in France, they propose that it would work better if people were allowed to move within disconnected areas, such as counties, towns, or boroughs. Obviously, such a division would be easier to enforce between separate towns than between boroughs of one single town. Division between some zones may therefore need to be legally enforced, while divisions between other zones merely recommended. This would, of course, represent a step up in state-enforced control in many countries.”

How will Covid-19 effect future city design?

Some ideas: “This is a big question as to what the city (design) will be like in the future. The greatest feature of Corona virus is that it refrains from "face to face communication" with people, which is contrary to the essence of the city "people gather and live together (community)." But humanity cannot deny the city. For better or worse, since the beginning of humankind, cities have functioned as "spiritual pillars" for humans, more than both physical and economic values. Everyone, including farmers, has been proud of the nearest city. Also, of the world population of 7.6 billion people, the urban population ratio is approaching 60%, a little less than 80% by 2050, and even rural areas by 2100 are projected to disappear. From now on, when we think of cities, I think the era will come when large cities in Africa and Asia, rather than cities in developed countries, are the first images of cities.” (Iwasaki, S. 2020).

This is a broad topic. I looked at adaptive spatial measures that may eventually becomes the new normals in our practices. A paper is published openly available by the journal. Researchergate link is here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341436352_10_Adaptive_Measures_for_Public_Places_to_face_the_COVID_19_Pandemic_Outbreak/stats

Online survey or using self administered questionnaire for mild cases. You can do case study or qualitative study among cured patients too.

Yes! Resilient Design is needed....

The development of ventilation in inner spaces is required, and re- assess the air change per hour inside the buildings as per their function is recommended too. This is through comparing the effect of ventilation on inner air quality. Moreover, in urban level the re-assessment of population density, built-up area to open area ratio, and residential building area to green area should be studied within this scope also.

Hi Dear Khuplianlam

As the world faces new health threats, as epidemics and viruses become part of our daily lives, the need to design new homes / cities and modify existing ones is acute. Architects act as the guarantor and guardian of a community's public health by designing and constructing spaces based on the needs of the epidemic. The spread of viruses will have an impact on urban space as well as the lives of millions, or it can be said, as it has in the past.

In managing any public health crisis, designing a city will have two general tasks:

The first step is how to deal with and manage the sudden influx of sick people and maintain urban life as much as possible for all normal people. First, the city is in a state of emergency due to epidemics or globalization, and faces widespread needs such as the provision of equipment, medical facilities, and care and cemeteries. Therefore, the city must be designed to be able to respond to emergencies in such situations.

The second stage is the design of living spaces and houses and apartments of the future, which should not only consider functional spaces for individual and collective needs, but also should protect the health of individuals, because humans will spend more time in isolation in the future and In other words, they will spend time in their homes.

That is a broad topic. From the building aspect, the personal ventilation system could act as a complementary to the indoor ventilation system. Increasing the air changes per hour should also be recommended. From the urban design, how to reduce/eliminate the inter-unit even inter-building transmission should be further researched.