Design in Quarantine

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Inside the Anniversary Issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/W64JjOH

Whose police is using the (supposedly private by design) data coming from government-sponsored anti-COVID technologies? In Jan 2022, German police comes under fire for misusing logs from contact tracing app "Luca". dw.com/en/german-poli…

'This shortlist shows the potent alchemy of bringing together the arts and sciences to tackle urgent global challenges.' The #TerraCarta Design Lab is featured in @Telegraph with RCA design innovators @notpla and @EpisodStudio 💫 💫 Read at the link ↓ bit.ly/3nOg2ib

UK reports 179,756 new Covid cases as Omicron surge continues #Echobox=1641486183-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

The 15th century plague doctor mask that has been preserved over the years and is currently on display in the German Museum of Medical History in Ingolstadt. This was the first design of the plague mask. #archaeohistories

AstraZeneca, Oxford aim to produce Omicron-targeted vaccine reut.rs/3Ed0gTq

Graphic design visualisation of the spread of the #Omicron globally.

Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them? #Echobox=1638012142" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/books/2021/nov…

Effigy of Guy Fawkes in mask with vaccine needles in his arms in Lewes mol.im/a/10169881 via @MailOnline

Our Clothing the pandemic event is coming up on 1 December, 2-5pm Paris time free registration eventbrite.fr/e/billets-clot…

Still relevant!

World Digital Preservation Day is the first Thursday of every November. This years theme ’Breaking Down Barriers’ focuses digital preservation supporting digital connections & creating lasting value. WDPD aims to create widespread awareness of digital preservation in society.

Part fact and part fiction, it was commissioned through the Local Government Board as an informational film and public health. 2/2. @SonyaBattla2 @dsgnhistorian @cyriennebft #tbt

🩺 Dr. Wise Will See You Now 🩺 Pandemics have long-held status as fictional devices but silent film 'Dr. Wise on Influenza' (1919) is one of the few surviving UK-based films with information on the 1918 influenza pandemic. 1/2 @SonyaBattla2 @dsgnhistorian @cyriennebft #tbt

Read our blog about @britishlibrary @BL_VisualArts #photo album (Photo 311/1): the Plague Visitation, 1896-97. It documents the city of Bombay at the onset of the devastating bubonic plague pandemic of 1896. blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri… #Tuesdaythoughts

Marie Bee Bloom invented these brilliant rice paper masks that are biodegradable. They are embedded with flower seeds and will bloom once thrown into the soil. @dezeen @mariebeebloom

In medieval London, cheap lead badges purchased as souvenirs of holy pilgrimages were believed to protect the wearer against sickness. Many Londoners undertook pilgrimages to Canterbury, to the shrine of the London-born martyr Thomas Becket. #ThrowbackThursday #PandemicLife

This lead scroll is inscribed with a protective spell or prayer to the gods; invoking their protection for the amulet’s owner, a man named Demetrios. Found in the Thames, it may have been thrown in deliberately as a ritual offering.

Disease and death have always been part of living in London. While modern medical science and public health systems have enabled us to defend against plagues and pandemics, the people who walked London’s streets before us had to rely on other resources. #TBT #DesignInQuarantine