About the Book
Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design for future resilience.
Design has a key role to play in not only creating products to ensure safety from the pandemic, but also in the creation of complex systems, new technologies and physical environments that enable us to carry out our lives and protect populations in the future. Design and Covid-19 identifies four key phases of the pandemic to examine how designers developed systems, services, communications and products as part of our response to the crisis, whether at an international, national or community level. Contributors report from a range of international contexts, including countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia, detailing how countries responded to the pandemic, introduced social distancing and lockdowns, developed test, track and trace systems, implemented new laws and how design and designers responded to the urgent new challenges that the pandemic created. They explore the adaptation of designs as communities searched for new ways of connecting and working through restrictions and social distancing measures, establishing local mutual aid groups and using social media to support each other through the pandemic, and go on to focus on recovery and resilience, analysing the deeper, systemic design response as industries emerge from lockdown. They explore the need to reflect on and investigate key issues in order to understand what we can learn personally, socially, economically and globally from this unprecedented crisis.
Drawing upon the expertise of scholars from across the globe, Design and Covid-19 explores a wide range of design disciplines to address the complex societal and global issues highlighted throughout the pandemic, and to inform new ways of building human and planetary wellbeing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Rachel Cooper and Louise Mullagh (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK)
Part One: Reaction
1. Design Reactions, Louise Mullagh, Rachel Cooper, Lisa Thomas and Justin Sacks (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK)
2. The Usefulness of Imperfect Design, Paul A. Rodgers (University of Strathclyde, UK), Craig Bremner (Charles Sturt University, Australia) and Fernando Galdon (Royal College of Art, UK)
3. Strategic Design in a Pandemic, Camilla Buchanan (Policy Lab, UK Government)
Part Two: International Reaction and Adaptation
4. Designing for Social Distancing, Des Fagan (Lancaster University, UK)
5. International Public Health Communication Design, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Mariana Fonseca-Braga and Alejandro Moreno Rangel (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK)
6. Design’s First Line Response to the Challenges Posed by COVID-19 in South America: Chilean and Colombian Examples, Ricardo J Hernandez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
7. A Team of 5 Million: Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic in New Zealand, Tomas Garcia Ferrari and Carolina Short (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
8. Lessons and Implications from South Korea’s Design Response to COVID-19: Case Studies and Analysis of ICT Convergence in Design, Yoori Koo (Hongik University, South Korea)
Part Three: Recovery and Resilience: Building for the Future
9. Here to Stay: Design-Led Recovery from COVID-19 in New York, Mariana Amatullo and Isabella Gady (Parsons School of Design, USA)
10. Design for a Post-Pandemic World: Embedding Business Resilience Through Design, Boyeun Lee, Elisavet Christou and David Hands (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK)
11. Moving with the Music: Co-designing Jalisco's Post-Pandemic Cultural Policy Through Orchestration, Bas Raijmakers (STBY, UK) and Megan Anderson (D-Ford, UK)
12. Designing Resilient Cities Post COVID-19, Christopher Boyko and Rachel Cooper (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK)
13. Re-Imagining the Use of Outdoor Learning Environments in Secondary Education, Ana Rute Costa (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK)
14. Resilient Digital Technologies, Naomi Jacobs, Zach Mason, David Perez, Rosendy Galabo, David Green, Joseph Lindley (ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, UK), Peter J. Craigon, Steve Benford, Dimitrios Darzentas and Hanne G. Wagner (University of Nottingham, UK)
Conclusion: Principles for Resilience
About the Author :
Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University, UK. She is the co-editor of The Handbook of Design Management (Bloomsbury 2011, 2017) and of Design for Health (2020).
Louise Mullagh is Senior Research Associate at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK.
Review :
Design & Covid 19 is a pioneering publication to come out of the pandemic in its evaluation of the impact of design practices. With an international selection of papers from a range of disciplines, the essays chart the roles of design during the crisis, with an eye toward a more resilient future.
