Design, Healthcare & Society
The corona pandemic blocked or made impossible many participatory working methods. The agency ProjektForum has tried out innovative approaches in this area in recent months. Project manager Delia Imboden talks in an interview about her experiences as well as possibilities in implementing participatory methods despite corona and protective measures.
How to make data tangible in a way that relates to our very own experience in relation to what is happening in the world? And how to present data in a manner that invites us to pause and reflect? In his essay, Lorenz Tschopp poses these questions.
For a year now, countless pictures have been showing us the many facets of the pandemic day after day. Jann Jenatsch, deputy managing director of the Keystone-SDA press agency, discusses in this interview the selection criteria on which press images are based and which images of the crisis will stick in our minds.
HKB student Danja Rachel Leimgruber is profoundly deaf in both ears. In her essay, she describes how she personally experiences everyday life with compulsory mask wearing.
Half of the Face Is Covered by Official Order – Thoughts on the Isolation of Communication.
A collaborative project of the US city of Baltimore shows ways to create a safe environment for public life despite the corona pandemic. An approach that could also be taken up here in Switzerland.
Animations, maps, infographics, data visualizations, new storytelling formats and presentation formats: how the “Tamedia Interaktiv-Team” uses visual journalism to communicate the corona pandemic to readers.
Especially serial formats adapt themselves with “Home Recording” to a new design using Zoom, Skype or mobile camera. In his article Arno Görgen draws first conclusions on this development.
The hashtag #coronavirus of “Information is beautiful” provides a visually attractive and informative compilation of visualizations that help to understand the pandemic.
In order to prevent the historical significance of the moment from falling into oblivion, as our ancestors’ experiences during the Spanish flu had done before, various museums and academic stakeholders – especially from the field of public history – have called on the internet to collect personal memories, everyday experiences, and findings about the “Corona Crisis” and upload them to their databases.
Three examples of creative ways to allow people to socialise in parks while ensuring safe distancing.
When your own home becomes the center of the universe…
life as a family is tested – the psychology of architecture can tell us what we can learn from this new situation…
During the corona pandemic, pictograms are often used to communicate hygiene measures and behavioural rules. However, designing readable pictograms is a challenging task.
An interview with the nursing expert Prof. Dr. Sabine Hahn questions pictorial representations that show representatives of the health personnel as superheroes.
A critical reflection questions whether arbitrariness or political calculation lies behind the conceptless and confusing design of the UK government’s Covid-19 messaging.
