Apart N’ Together

Role: Project Manager, Researcher, Designer

Duration: 10 weeks

Design Brief: As a group of designers, makers, and thinkers, we joined a course to learn how to design with society.We had plans to build a more sustainable campus at Savannah College of Art and Design. With the global pandemic occurring directly before our meeting, we saw a more critical design opportunity. Here's what we have to share.

Our team that is made up of five countries, three disciplines, and hundreds of skills, virtually came together for a ten-week design challenge. We wanted to understand the challenges faced by people in their daily lives, and started by talking to a large spectrum of people to get a holistic understanding of the problem. In order to do that we spoke to students, healthcare professionals, working professionals who could potentially work from home and some who lost their jobs due to the pandemic.