Design in a Post-COVID-19 World
Aaron Betsky on how designers should mobilize to tackle the most pressing challenges of the moment.
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Dolores Park in San Francisco
As this country, probably in foolish haste, starts to reopen, the call for plans and solutions grows. How can we prevent as many deaths as possible? How can we prevent widespread poverty, hunger, and destitution as a result of the unraveling of an economy that has had every cushion or reserve engineered out of it? What can we do about the social, sexual, and racial injustices the COVID-19 crisis has both revealed and exasperated? How can we design a safer, healthier, and more just world?