SOUR is excited and delighted to have been one of the included design studios in the book, presenting the co-design project Family Pockets, a kit of activities that integrates everyday objects and home surroundings to support families in creating opportunities to bond, communicate and collaborate. The kit is inspired by conversations and co-designing with a group of working mothers and their children, trying to find design solutions to the question: how might we support families in hybrid work life?
SUMMARY BOOK: “Design has a key role to play in not only creating products to ensure safety from the pandemic, but also in the creation of complex systems, new technologies and physical environments that enable us to carry out our lives and protect populations in the future. Design and Covid-19 identifies four key phases of the pandemic to examine how designers developed systems, services, communications and products as part of our response to the crisis, whether at an international, national or community level. Contributors report from a range of international contexts, including countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia, detailing how countries responded to the pandemic, introduced social distancing and lockdowns, developed test, track and trace systems, implemented new laws and how design and designers responded to the urgent new challenges that the pandemic created. They explore the adaptation of designs as communities searched for new ways of connecting and working through restrictions and social distancing measures, establishing local mutual aid groups and using social media to support each other through the pandemic, and go on to focus on recovery and resilience, analysing the deeper, systemic design response as industries emerge from lockdown. They explore the need to reflect on and investigate key issues in order to understand what we can learn personally, socially, economically and globally from this unprecedented crisis.” - Bloomsbury, 2024
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