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"When the coronavirus crisis prompted Yale to move classes online,
Sanders’s first thought was: “How do you make the content of your class
seem relevant during a global pandemic? Why should we be talking about
museums when we have more urgent issues to fry?” Off campus, built
environments and the ways people moved in them began to change
immediately in desperate, ad hoc ways. Grocery stores erected plexiglass
shields in front of registers and put stickers or taped lines on the
floor to create six-foot spacing between customers; as a result, fewer
shoppers fit safely inside, and lines snaked out the door. People became
hyperaware of themselves in relation to others and the surfaces they
might have to touch. Suddenly, Sanders realized, everyone had become a
“noncompliant body.” And places deemed essential were wrestling with how
near to let them get to one another. The virus wasn’t simply a health
crisis; it was also a design problem."
Via Bill Daul.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
