This document provides information on an envisioning design workshop hosted by Fabio Besti Interdisciplinary Design from May 4th to June 11th 2020 at Domus Academy's Master in Product Design program. It includes links to videos and articles on various topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on different industries and aspects of life, as well as design responses and visions for the future considering the ongoing crisis.

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EMERGING SCENARIOS FROM
THE COVID-19 CRISIS
Envisioning design workshop
May 4th 2020 - June 11th 2020
Domus Academy | Master in Product Design
FABIO BESTI

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI
BILL GATES ON THE
NEXT EPIDEMIC, 2015
In 2014, the world avoided a global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless
health workers -- plus, frankly, some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should
have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into
practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says,
"There's no need to panic ... but we need to get going."

3. BIG BRANDS FOR
CORONAVIRUS
news.nike.com support.apple.com news.adidas.com

4. news.adidas.com

5. facebook.com/isinnova decathlon.it
3D PRINTING FOR
COVID-19

6. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/
SHIPPING CONTAINER
INTENSIVE CARE
A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian
architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used
to treat patients fighting the coronavirus.
Named Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments (CURA), the intensive care pod was
designed by Carlo Ratti Associati and Rota to increase intensive care unit (ICU) capacity
in northern Italy.

7. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thermal-imaging-
ANALISYS &
THERMAL IMAGING
Thermal imaging cameras are the latest devices businesses hope will help reopen the
economy while keeping people safe from the threat of COVID-19. The cameras are used to
scan temperature from a safe distance, and if a fever — a common coronavirus symptom —
is detected, the company could require further screening or deny the person entry
altogether.

8. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200422-
TESTING TECHNOLOGY

9. https://www.filaindiana.it/
DIGITAL
PRESCRIPTIONS

10. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/
MESSAGES FROM THE
QUARANTINE
How do you safely document a country that’s entirely under lockdown? Last week, these
Milanese filmmakers found a way. The short documentary above was shot with a drone
flown through the shuttered neighborhoods of Milan — capturing life unfolding from
windows, balconies and roofs. While confined to their homes, quarantined residents shared
their evolving hopes and fears over WhatsApp audio messages. The result is an elusive
chronicle of an epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic — one that in many ways
has foretold the future for other countries navigating this new reality around the world.

11. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/
ENTERTAINMENT
INDUSTRIES
FOR MOST industries, the lockdowns and social-distancing measures imposed by
governments around the world to contain the covid-19 pandemic will be crippling. For
video-streaming services, however, they could be a godsend. Citizens face what could be
months of isolation at home, ideal conditions for binge-watching (and an ideal time for
Disney to launch its streaming service, Disney+, in Europe).

12. https://www.businessinsider.com/app-downloads-increases-because-of-
ZOOM/SKYPE/
HOUSEPARTY/ETC..
FOR MOST industries, the lockdowns and social-distancing measures imposed by
governments around the world to contain the covid-19 pandemic will be crippling. For
video-streaming services, however, they could be a godsend. Citizens face what could be
months of isolation at home, ideal conditions for binge-watching (and an ideal time for
Disney to launch its streaming service, Disney+, in Europe).

13. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3m9bw/sex-
SEX
INDUSTRY
Sales throughout March were also up for COTR, the company that owns b-Vibe, Le Wand,
and The Cowgirl. Alicia Sinclair, CEO and founder of COTR, told VICE online sales across
all three brands were not only about three times higher than this time last year, but that
buying habits also seem to have significantly changed.

14. GROCERY DELIVERY

15. https://www.filaindiana.it/
FILAINDIANA.IT

16. designboom.com
HANDY BY
MATTEO ZALLIO
Matteo Zallio has created a 3D-printed tool that can be used for numerous tasks that would
normally require touching a surface directly. Its pair of hooks can be used for opening
doors.
"Having a personal multipurpose tool to avoid direct contact with handles, buttons, bags
and other daily objects outside of our home, helps to increase hygiene and to lower
chances of getting infected,"

17. dezeen.com
PORTABLE SANITATION KIT
Chinese designer Kiran Zhu has created the Handy Capsule sanitation kit in a bid to
encourage better public health habits in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
The compact sanitation kit, called the Handy Capsule, contains four types of health
supplies: a disposable mask, hand sanitiser, temperature stickers and alcohol wipes.
The soft pebble-shaped case is made from aluminium sheets that have been stamped to take
the form of each of the items included inside.

18. https://www.dezeen.com/2020/04/30/pura-case-
PURA CASE
SANITIZING CLOTHES
The Pura-Case concept is Carlo Ratti Associati's vision of what the "new normal" of
domestic life post-coronavirus will look like.

19. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/
CORONAVIRUS AS A
SIGN FROM CLIMATE
Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate
crisis, according to the UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen.
Andersen said humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with
damaging consequences, and warned that failing to take care of the planet meant not
taking care of ourselves.

20. dangerousminds.net; youtube.com
REDESIGNING CITIES
Boeri's Forest City concept is a proposal to build a city in Shijiazhuang, China, which
would act as a prototype for a new generation of green urban developments across the
country.
The proposed city is comprises towers covered in trees and other plants, a concept that
Boeri calls Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest.

21. https://nltimes.nl/2020/05/03/amsterdam-
INDIVIDUAL GREENHOUSES
FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING
With Dutch restaurants, bars and other catering services engulfed in uncertainty over how
they might adjust to the 1.5-meter society, one Amsterdam restaurant is set to experiment
with a brand new way of condoning off its guests: Using enclosed greenhouses.

22. designboom.com
ISOLATING
IN SPACES
an italian company has shared two proposals for the
future of air travel post COVID-19, including one that
involves reverse airplane seating. as the effects of
coronavirus continue to influence many aspects of our
daily lives, the airline industry is investigating how it can
make provisions for safe travel.

23. https://www.ft.com/content/
TRACKING
TECHNOLOGY
The strategies for reopening an economy before a vaccine is developed could involve
monitoring the contacts of newly infected people, which will raise questions about how
much curtailment of privacy societies are prepared to take.

24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
HARARI ON WORLD
POST COVID
“The biggest danger is not the virus itself. The
really big problem is our own inner demons,
our own hatred, greed and ignorance.”

25. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/
FACESHIELD FOR
SNOWSTORMS, 1939
Plastic face protection from snowstorms. Canada, Montreal, 1939

26. dezeen.com/
LESS “AWKWARD"
FACE SHIELD

27. https://plastique-fantastique.de/iSphere
I-SPHERE
The Coronavirus is changing our relation to each other and affecting our perception of
reality. This virus is very democratic: it spreads over the borders, has no preference for
gender, social, cultural, or economic status.
In this time of lockdown, we wonder about the mutation of our social life and the effects of
the deprivation of physical touch.

28. https://futurism.com/virus-proof-suit-vape-sex
MICRASHELL:
VIRUS-PROOF SUIT
Los Angeles-based design company Production Club has dreamed up a virus-proof half-
body suit concept called the “Micrashell” that could allow us to one day safely attend film
festivals, concerts and sports events during or after a global pandemic — without having to
stand six feet apart.

29. https://www.ted.com/talks/neri_oxman_design_at_the_intersection_of_technology_and_biology?
DESIGN | TECHNOLOGY |
BIOLOGY
Neri Oxman's team at MIT Media Lab has created four 3D-printed "wearable skins"
designed to facilitate synthetic biological processes that might one day allow humans to
survive on other planets.
Neri Oxman and members of the Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab – an
interdisciplinary research department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology –
collaborated with 3D printing company Stratasys to create structures with varied rigidity,
opacity and colour.

30. http://news.mit.edu/2020/3-d-bioprinting-living-
3DPRINTING WITH LIVING
ORGANISMS
A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predictable ways has
been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere. The
technique may lead to 3D printing of biomedical tools, such as customized braces, that
incorporate living cells to produce therapeutic compunds such as painkillers or topical
treatments, the researchers say.

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