Visualising the Virus: Design As A Medium for Collective Critical Care
A follow-up to a course held at the National Institute of Design, ‘Visualizing the Invisible: Art, Design and Public Health’ this workshop by Architect and Design Researcher Gabriela Aquije Zegarra facilitated collective dialogue and experiments on how design relates to the social, political and ecological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a hands-on, collective exchange using the Miro board tool, the workshop focussed on various objects, relations, and systems that could make the COVID-19 virus visible. It provoked participants to explore notions of critical and speculative design in order to trigger curiosity, care and where possible, action around ideas of contagion.
About the Design Researcher
Gabriela Aquije is a Peruvian Architect (ENSAT France 2012/PUCP Perú 2015) and Design Researcher, currently based in Germany. In 2020 she obtained her MSc. Design Research as part of the COOP academic partnership between the Bauhaus Stiftung, Hochschule Anhalt, and Universität Humboldt zu Berlin. Through a critical space practice, her work includes projects of landscape architecture, curatorial research and exhibition design, in partnership with architects and art collectives across North and South America, and Europe. As a Future Architecture 2021 Fellow, she’s currently focused on the link between bioregional Food Systems, Urban Commons and Transition Design.
