Abstract
This position paper look at the COVID-19 pandemic human condition that arises with fundamental conversations about design as a fluid social, cultural, and political artifact. The aim of our position comes from the necessity of consider some concepts to analyse epistemic and ontological consequences of the pandemia in the field of design research. There is no question about the huge impact of pandemic disease on the planet. On the other hand, terms as environment, digital, hyperobjects have already deeply changed our perception of the reality, our daily life, our behaviours. Rather than an emergency to be responded to quickly, the virus is here intended as an opportunity to let problems and solutions already in place for some time, aware that it is not life that has changed after the pandemic, but the most accurate perception we have of it.
Highlights
For the first time on 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China
It is know that the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a number of far-reaching unpredictable effects in many areas of life
László Moholy-Nagy’s progressive and transversal approach opened up the world of design to critical reflection in analysing the interconnections and scientific and technical implications with everyday practices
Summary
For the first time on 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Emergent phenomena are conceptualized as occurring on the macro level, in contrast to the micro-level components and processes out of which they arise” (Goldstein, 1999). In this new and changing scenario, design confirms itself as a powerful tool to transpose the needs and expectations of human beings into the reality around them, fostering the production of new imagery, as “a language that a society uses to create objects that reflect its aims and values” (Sudjic, 2009). It is taken for granted that in order to act within a context of crisis it is necessary to prepare ourselves — as individuals, as local communities, as nations and as humanity — to adapt our lifestyles and our transformative processes to a world that will certainly be different from the actuality of the “design for a real world” (Papanek, 1971)
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