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a day in the life
contributors ALEX MACDONALD DAN HERRMANN-ZOLL ELLEN WILLIS FATIMA GRAND ISSY SPENCE
JACK DEMPSTER JONATHAN PILOSOF LAURA HEBDON PEDRO VILLANUEVA ROSS COCHRANE
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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS. Thank you for picking up our second issue of Design Re-viewed magazine! This project was born out of the economic impacts of COVID-19, which resulted in large numbers of creative individuals being forced out of work. We are committed to producing a long running dialogue of globally-relevant conversations between people working in creative backgrounds. We are delighted to say that this issue features eleven voices from four countries and a range of disciplines. The tumultuous circumstances caused by this pandemic are felt across the globe, and it is the aim of this issue to describe and interpret these new environments. We hope Design Re-Viewed kick-starts thought-provoking conversations and shifted perspectives. This is the second issue, investigating 4
how our daily habits and rituals have been disrupted by the global pandemic. We hope you find this collection of ideas as exciting and inspiring as we have. We are delighted with the outcome and can’t wait for our next issue of Design Re-Viewed.
THE EDITORS Jonathan Pilosof Laura Hebdon Alex Macdonald Callum Campbell Tanya Haldipur
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ISSUE 002 a day in the life Continuing the theme of pandemic disruption; we invite contributors to share how behavioural routines have been disrupted as a result of the global pandemic. During the varying ‘lockdown’ measures, people have adapted the way they live and work in new and creative ways. Commuting, eating, socialising; the pandemic has altered our routines and rituals. This issue will explore how daily habits have been disrupted, perhaps forever?
Whether these defer from the traditional ideas evoked by the likes of Simon Unwin and Sarah Wigglesworth is open to interpretation, perhaps they in fact further enhance the symbolic association rituals have on the way we use the space around us. We are looking for contributions which capture the ways routines have adapted, be that a single activity, a 24 hour snapshot of a specific day or a Groundhog Day-esque ritual.
The pandemic has sparked an unprecedented order to our daily routines.
Image: Margaret Olley, The yellow room triptych, 2007, oil on board, 138.0 x 290.0cm. New England Regional Art Museum - Purchased through the Yellow Room Appeal 2013 The Howard Hinton Collection
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Alex Macdonald
‘STRANGE’ AND ‘UNCERTAIN’ TIMES.
14 Dan Herrmann-Zoll THE TP STANDARD.
20 Ellen Willis
DAY IN DAY OUT.
26 Fatima Grand
ARCHITECTURE OF GRADATIO.
32 Issy Spence
MUSEUM OF LIVING RELICS.
38 Jack Dempster
PRIDE, AMBITION AND LOCKDOWN REMORSE.
44 Jonathan Pilosof
PANDEMIC INTERFACE: VIRTUAL REALITY.
50 Laura Hebdon
THE BIG C: CYCLING.
56 Pedro Villanueva
DISCIPLINE IN THE OLIGARCHY OF TODDLERS.
62 Ross Cochrane
6PM CLOSE TIME SORRY WE’RE CLOSED.
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‘STRANGE’ AND ‘UNCERTAIN’ TIMES. ALEX MACDONALD, MELBOURNE / AUSTRALIA “Hope you find this well in these strange and uncertain times…” Is how half of the emails in my inbox have arrived for the last 6 months. Strange, uncertain and surreal seems to be the only way we can describe the moment we are living through. Oscillating between anxiety-ridden and fatigued states, unable to adequately describe to our colleagues, friends and strangers just how hard lockdowns and restrictions have been on us.
THE AUTHOR Alex is an Architectural Graduate, living, breathing, making and working in Melbourne, Australia. She is interested in the power of generous public space.
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CORNELIA PARKER, COLD DARK MATTER: AN EXPLODED VIEW (1991) Throughout the pandemic, my mind has gone back to Parker’s ‘Cold Dark Matter’. An explosion, usually a temporal event, is preserved, meticulously gathered and suspended. There is an intense beauty in the skill and patience of putting things back together and this piece fills me with an odd kind of hope.
Cold Dark Matter by Cornelia Parker. Image source: https://chisenhale.org.uk/exhibition/ cornelia-parker/
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THE TP STANDARD.
DAN HERRMANN-ZOLL , MELBOURNE / AUSTRALIA
From it’s beginning Covid-19 has disrupted our everyday routines. One of the earliest, and strangest of these disruptions was the concept of panic buying. From one day to the next the idea of acquiring basic everyday items, previously taken for granted was challenged dramatically. For a short time a strange pivot in the worth of these items occurred. Panic buying saw household staples such as toilet paper, pasta, rice and flour in higher demand than ever before. As a result a new market emerged for online hawkers, grossly inflating prices of items such as toilet paper in a bid to make a quick profit.
THE AUTHOR Daniel Herrmann-Zoll is a Melbourne based commercial still life photographer. His work is largely studio based and consists of artificial, constructed set builds.
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MITCH FEINBERG. In a world of constantly shifting markets gold seems to be one of the few items which has reliably held value and been an indicator of wealth over time in our civilisation. Inspired by photographer Mitch Feinberg’s editorial work embossing luxury fashion items such as handbags, high end watches and perfumes into flour sought to create a series juxtaposing an item of high value with common everyday items which have been targeted by panic buyers in 2020.
V for Vendetta still (2005): https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzA5NTcwNjUxNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDc2ODEyMw@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,1493,1000_AL_.jpg
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DAY IN DAY OUT.
ELLEN WILLS, LONDON / UNITED KINGDOM
Long gone are the days pre-COVID when we could regularly go out, see friends and explore different places. No more people watching on the morning commute or listening to the radio in the car, no more spontaneous coffee outings with friends for a quick break. Stuck inside, working on our computers, each day blends into the next. Confined to our homes our daily routines are at risk of becoming monotonous.
THE AUTHOR Ellen Willis is an architectural graduate living just outside London, currently working on freelance graphic design projects and architectural competitions.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YEAR, JUDY CHICAGO In her work ‘Autobiography of a Year’, Judy Chicago documented her life over the year 1993 in the form of prints, drawings and collages. This colourful and emotional depiction of everyday life outside of a lockdown offers an interesting contrast to documentations of everyday life inside lockdown. It’s interesting to consider that although our physical routines in lockdown may be becoming more predictable by the day, has this affected the emotional ups and downs of daily living?
Autobiography of a Year, Judy Chicago. Image source: https://baltic.art/whats-on/exhibitions/ judy-chicago
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ARCHITECTURE OF GRADATIO.
FATIMA, MALMÖ / SWEDEN
Gradatio is a rhetorical term for a sentence construction in which the last word(s) of one clause becomes the first of the next, through three or more clauses. “Architecture of Gradatio” explores the everyday routine of not only a designer during the pandemic but also those relevant to him/her. It translates everyday tasks of a designer into architecture, following an extreme linear and sequential pattern, one triggering next, similar to a gradatio. This is also a manifestation of time in a physical format, and its relativity to other people’s timeline in one’s network of friends, family and colleagues. It aims to provide for all the six basic human needs without having to ever leave their home or be in physical contact with others.
THE AUTHOR Fatima Grand is a British/Persian Architect and founder of Fatima Grand Studio. Graduated from The London Metropolitan University and the Architectural Association she worked as an architect in London for over 13 years.
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Sleep Breakfast Work/daily tasks Lunch Work/daily tasks Dinner Recreational
Bedroom Breakfast Room Work Room 1 Lunch Room Work Room 2 Dinner Room Play Room
Shelter Food, Water Connection, Novelty Food, Water Connection, Novelty Food, Shelter Novelty
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The Network The Designer The Girlfriend/Boyfriend The Colleauge The Parents/Relatives/Family The Friend Fatima Grand Studio
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Having Fun Together
Dinner Together
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Breakfast Together
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some time she discovered “ After that every member of the family,
without realizing it, repeated the same path every day, the same actions, and almost repeated the same words at the same hour. Only when deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something. 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
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DESIDERATA OF HAPPINESS. Abraham Maslow, a psychologist, defined a list of human needs that people now call the Hierarchy of Human Needs. He published this list in the 1940s, and it has become the utmost referenced list of human needs. According to Nicole Gravagna a Neuroscientist and President of NeuroEQ - Maslow’s list could use an update and she defines six elements as modern list of human needs: Food, Water, Shelter, Connection, Novelty
Joseph Priestley, Electrostatic Machine, 1775. Science Source: 18th Century electricty experiment
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MUSEUM OF LIVING ROOM RELICS. ISSY SPENCE, LONDON / UNITED KINGDOM With art galleries closed and with more time spent at home, it was perhaps time to view the domestic setting of the communal living area of my student corridor as a cultural, shared space. It was time to think about the contents beyond the walls of the room and how they could be viewed in a different way.
THE AUTHOR Issy is an architectural designer from the UK interested in socially and environmentally conscious design. Her studies and work have taken her from the UK to Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Melbourne. Image by the author
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exhibition guide The Museum of Living Room Relics was the former communal living area of a 14-room student corridor. It is a peculiar space. It houses 3 freezers and an assortment of deposits, most likely that landed there over the last decade or so.
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The fast exit of tenants from the building combined with laziness and a lack of time to sell or deposit furniture or waste outside of the corridor has led to an accidental ensemble of pretty useless stuff. The lack of ownership and organisation means the room has also acquired its own personality, a peculiar assortment of different tastes and styles. These relics capture a moment in time: too new to be deemed interesting and worth cataloguing, and too old to be sold on or be desirable.
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1. Compact Disc Holder The first piece of the exhibition, references the time before online streaming platforms such as Spotify and how music would come on CDs. This object holds these discs. What is actually on the discs in unknown. Contents: Unknown. Date last used: Unknown.
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2. Marilyn Monroe on Canvas A classic and iconic piece of art, but definitely not an original.
3. Pair of curtains Material: Pale and patterned textile Date: c. late ‘80s.
4. Mary Shelly of Gärdet A contemporary take on Frankenstein’s monster, Mary Shelly is constructed of seashells pieced together. Purpose: Unknown. Date: Unknown.
5. Chunky TV This installation highlights the technological advancements and how we can now hold television in our hands on a significantly smaller device. Its bulky frame really hoards the corner of the room.
6. Lamp of Distress The ‘Lamp of Distress’ is a contemporary installation that is intentionally positioned above the sofa to ensure the visitor is alert to their surroundings.
7. The Appliance Graveyard
LAMP O F DI S TR ES S ( 6 )
M A RY SHE LLY OF GÄ RD E T ( 4 )
‘The Appliance Graveyard’ reimagines cheaply manufactured and mass-produced products into a poignant and morbid piece critiquing The Anthropocene.
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THOMASSONS トマソン Thomassons is a term coined by Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s. It is a term for a useless structure or relic of the built environment that can be viewed as conceptual art. The two criteria is whether they are truly useless, and had they been maintained. On his lunch break, a staircase leading to nowhere. It is a term for a useless structure or relic of the built environment that can be viewed as conceptual art. The two criteria is whether they are truly useless, and had they been maintained. Collectively they are known as hyperart.
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PRIDE, AMBITION AND LOCKDOWN REMORSE. JACK DEMPSTER, LONDON / UK The working world is filled with deadlines. Even our holidays are planned and organised with their scarcity burdening you to ‘make the most’ of what time away from the daily routine you have. COVID 19 has caused a selection of such workers around the world to be furloughed, a paid holiday of huge proportions. With no work to attend to and no deadlines to meet, have those on furlough achieved a blissful freedom or depressing anarchy?
THE AUTHOR Jack is a Part II Architectural Assistant working on master planning and social housing projects in London following a master’s degree in Architecture with Urban Planning at the University of Dundee. image by the author
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ow many people work all week with the sole intention of enjoying life at the weekend and in cliched manner abhor Monday for its representation as the furthest point from it? As a furloughed worker this Saturday has lasted for months, with the best day of the week unending all the fun and opportunity that usually come along with it should too. Right? The concept of ‘Pride’ as put by Richard Taylor in ‘Justified pride’ is the justified love of oneself for having achieved personal excellence. This implies that people who fail to nourish and perfect their talents, who do only what is expected of them, are wasting their lives. The notion that not everyone is equal and that we are only worth what we have achieved is one that seems to plague those on furlough coining the term “Lockdown Remorse”. It speaks to the opportunity for growth that has been squandered during this unique period of freedom. When you can now do anything outside the rigid rules and boundaries of your 9 – 5 job what do you set your mind to and if it is not a path to ‘achieving personal excellence’ then what reward do you glean from it? Of course if this were entirely true then everyone who has not mastered juggling, learned German and written life changing articles for design magazines should be deeply unhappy in and of themselves. This is clearly untrue and the new routine that those furloughed have created for themselves may have answers. Psychologists studying mood and its correlation to daily routine conclude that the point is not what the routine consists of, but how steady and safe your subconscious mind is made through repetitive motions and expected outcomes. It is argued that when you regulate your daily actions you deactivate your ‘fight or flight’ instincts because you’re no longer facing the unknown. A routine constantly reaffirms the decisions you have previously made giving a sense of purpose to each day. So perhaps to not have achieved anything of great merit or renown during the lockdown period is enough. There is no blissful freedom or depressing anarchy, for the most of us anyway. Instead it’s a mediocre mixture of going through the motions. And that’s ok.
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RESTORING PRIDE, RICHARD TAYLOR Richard Taylor controversially rejects the notion everyone is equal, instead arguing that some people hold superiority over others. This is not related to class, power or wealth, instead theorising that some are better because they are gifted and have made the most of said gifts. Through using their free time to perfect these gifts he encourages people to reach their potential arguing that this is the only way to be justifiably proud their life.
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PANDEMIC INTERFACE: VIRTUAL REALITY. JONATHAN PILOSOF, EDINBURGH / SCOTLAND This written piece explores the nature of reality - as experienced during the COVID pandemic - and what living entails. For many people, one of the effects of the restructuring of our daily routines is the bringing of the computer screen permanently into the home. The circles we run around screens suggests a new relationship with user experience; when every experience we face is lived through a screen, what does ‘reality’ mean?
THE AUTHOR Jonathan is an designer living in Scotland, undertaking the MArch degree at Edinburgh University. He is an editor for Design Re-Viewed Magazine.
The Simpsons: A somewhat complete history of ‘Homer³’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror VI’: https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/19/the-simpsons-homer-cubed-treehouse-of-horror-vi/ 45
The 2020 pandemic radically sheltered our perception of work. Professions once confined to the office evolved overnight to support a shift to staff-wide remote working. In the case of my employment at an architecture firm in New Zealand, this meant permanent renovation of the ‘home office’, to support a long term live-in desk job. The twenty minute walking commute became seventeen steps from bedroom, and the lines between work and home blurred beyond recognition. As working from home (WFH) became the new normal, the once sociable workplace experience became repeating patterns of lonely rituals. Living alone, the computer acted as a gateway for all outward experience. Through the screen of an iphone and monitor, work and play is switched on or off. Arriving at work meant no more than powering up the PC, followed by conversations bounced between email chains and- in the case of architecturethe construction of a digital building in digital space. Conducted in exchange for virtual remuneration, work became solely the act of currency building to create more currency. Over lockdown, I was working to stay alive; to keep working. Experiencing social rituals too became altered through digital mediation. The customary ac-
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cidental small talk expected during run-ins with spontaneous and unexpected acquaintances disappeared; replaced with predetermined scheduled exchange. Despite the feeling of unity under challenging times, the social exchanges become arduous, lacking the subtle social cues we have evolved to decipher and read. 50,000 years after homo sapiens first started using language, we become unable to read each other and those of us living alone crave real social contact. This distortion of reality points to a startling conclusion. If work and play are experienced solely through the screen, could this become our new perception of reality? Despite not engaging with our evolved senses of smell, touch or taste, this version of reality became the new normal during the most intense lockdown period. Perhaps if we were to spend decades confined to a desk and monitor, could our less-engaged senses begin to devolve and wither away? Virtual reality in this sense is not a replication of embodied physical experience-such as Morton Heilig’s 1962 Sensorama- but an altered virtual reality which does not depend on the physical senses. In forcing us to remain physiologically sedentary and depend on digital connections for the hallmarks of living, perhaps the pandemic has shown us that we are much closer to living in a virtual reality than we realise.
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GAMER (2009) In Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s 2009 film Gamer, antagonist Ken Castle has created Nanites; self replicating robots that allow people to control others whilst seeing what they see. The first major application focuses on a virtual community life-simulator game called Society. Similar to the Electronic Arts/ Maxis game The Sims, Society reimagines the inhabitation of another person in the form of a video game. Just as in lockdown, the lines demarcating reality are blurred: is the player experiencing the character’s life, or is reality still behind the computer screen?
Yuco design works (Gamer, 2009): https://www.yuco.com/works/gamer
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THE BIG C: CYCLING.
LAURA HEBDON, AUCKLAND / NEW ZEALAND
Why did everyone take up cycling during the COVID 19 lockdown? The answer is likely due to a number of reasons; It is an isolated mode of transport to local areas, a form of exercise and aid of wellbeing and quite simply freedom from the indoors. However, just as significantly It should be highlighted that one of the reasons for this increase is that people are more likely to ride their bikes when they feel safer on the roads and with less vehicles out and about, even the more amateur of cyclists can get out to explore. And yes, I was one of them.
THE AUTHOR Laura Hebdon is an architectural designer with experience working on projects in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Laura enjoys working with existing structures, conservation and sustainable conscientious design. image by the author
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AUCKLAND CYCLE ROUTES 52 KM TO DEVONPORT 22 KM GREY LYNN 10 KM CITY CIRCLE 55 KM TO PUKETUTU ISLAND 30 KM TO ONEHUNGA 33 KM MT WELLINGTON 50 KM TO BUCKLAND BEACH 20 KM TO ST HELIERS LOOKOUT 17 KM WATERFRONT 20 KM ROUND THE BAYS 14 KM MISSION BAY 22 KM TO ROYAL OAK 21 KM TO MOUNT ROSKILL 10 KM TO MOUNT EDEN 28 KM TO PT CHEVALIER
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CYCLE PATH AUCKLAND There is no question that cities should be promoting and enhancing their cycling infrastructure as a way to develop more sustainable and accessible city centres. When questioning why more people took up cycling during the COVID-19 Lockdowns, one naturally turns to the local council infrastructure to interrogate how this trend could be continued beyond this period. Government bodies should look to harness this new trend and enhance their local networks to provide safer and better connected cycle paths.
This pink cycling lane in New Zealand amazed the world: https://www.lifegate.com/pink-cycling-lane-new-zealand
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DISCIPLINE IN THE OLIGARCHY OF TODDLERS. PEDRO VILLANUEVA, AUCKLAND / NEW ZEALAND During the Covid-19 lockdown, millions of parents and caregivers around the globe, with children between 0 and 6 years old, have seen themselves needing to work from home, expected to replace physical meetings with scheduled online videoconferences, and be available during normal working hours. What happens when their homes also need to function as the playground and kindergarten?
THE AUTHOR Pedro is a Spanish architect, musician and father, currently living and working in Auckland, New Zealand. He is passionate about the relationship between arts and its influence in human behaviour. image by the author
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POMODORO TIMER The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for ‘tomato’, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student. Similar methods have been proven exceptionally effective in other areas such as studying, music training or memory exercising.
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6PM CLOSE TIME SORRY WE’RE CLOSED. ROSS COCHRANE, HONG KONG / HKG A curfew, a lock-down, a new Hong Kong measure; twenty years on and instead of myself getting sent to bed, It is the beer, wine and alcohol many socially love to share, who is being punished as the clock strikes six. “Sorry we’re closed” but has it closed the minds of the Hong Kong people? As streets close the minds open; Roofs, Parks, Boats. The normality of a bar is no longer confined by four walls but by 1.1m handrail on a roof, the tree line in a park, shoreline on a beach. Human instincts, it is an urge, aridity and thirst that causes this natural migration to what surrounds us.
THE AUTHOR Ross will say he is a creative realist. He has the creative ideas to reuse all-sorts while the realisation he has just hoarded 100 plastic bottles. Currently an architectural designer hoping to sit his RIBA part 3, 2021. image by the author
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FLAGRANT DELIT, MADELON VRIESENDORP, This Anthropological movement is a result of a desire not just for the consumption of drink but the reality of social interaction. We, humans, use bars, restaurants, dinners as a destination to communicate with friends or strangers; to vent, laugh, express. Living in these times, I have shared beers in locations that question the bar, sites not new but not thought of. Will this alter the drinking patterns and culture within a city? Our bars may have a bedtime, but our cities are always open.
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EDITORS’ CONCLUSIONS. Globally the issues surrounding COVID 19 have impacted the way we use space in many different ways; you need only flick through this magazine to observe how. Our ways of thinking about space have changed. Whether this is a permanent change or a short disturbance from life as we know it, we are yet to find out. As we each navigate the post-pandemic world, it remains to be seen which changes stick around for good. Will we return to our daily habits unaffected once we return to normality; or is this the new normal? Perhaps the lives we lived before physical distancing and preventative health measures will be seen as the dark ages of daily life. This issue has been a phenomenal insight into how the pandemic has affected designers across the globe. Healthcare systems, working life and cultural norms have been put to the test as nations grapple with the most effective ways of preventing the spread of the disease. We would like to thank our incredible contributors for their voices, and thank you for reading.
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back cover: People queueing at a supermarket. Andrew Kelly - Reuters (via the New York Times) 2020
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