 "(Top and above) New Delhi’s AIIMS flyover and Mumbai’s Gateway of India tell the story of ‘life’ in the times of coronavirus; (from top right) design interventions to tackle the virus, like a railway coach converted into an isolation ward, a no-touc")
Speculating on post-coronavirus life is a raging contagion that infects the worker-from-home. Prior susceptibility is needed. It attacks the mind, causing fevered contemplation of the design of things in a post-corona world. It’s harmless: once you’ve read this, you can wash your hands and move on.
Caveat: how the pandemic will play out is unknown. A long fade with no clear end-of-crisis marker will likely tilt us to change, with new normals. Or will we see an elastic springing back to life-as-before, with supercompensation for hardships suffered, and a dusting off of any lessons that were being learned? History suggests
