The workshop we proposed explores design techniques and technologies that can tackle isolation and enhance social interaction in the city during the pandemic and the post pandemic era. We join current global debates on how the pandemic has impacted aspects of everyday life and urban spaces, including among others our interaction with the city and our interactions with people.
Some of the questions we aimed to address are:
- How can we re-think and re-design our cities so that to engage people to socially interact safely?
- How can we bring life to the currently empty urban spaces? How can we tackle isolation?
- How can we visit a site from afar?
- How can we document a site without visiting the site and what type of data can we use?
- How can we visually represent it through digital means?
- How can we transit with ease from the pandemic to the post-pandemic era?
- What has changed in our experience of space?
Another issue that we aimed to address with the workshop is the emerging need to re-think interfaces and interaction design in general. We will explore the potential of touchless interaction technologies.
