How Epidemics Brings Change

Regia Marinho
3 min readJan 8, 2022

In order to get ahead, we need creative answers to the epidemic.

Innovation in design and in other areas are critical to building a better world because of pandemics.

Social distancing design, or trend?

Yanko Design.

A pattern of squares was made to help people stand an appropriate distance from one another. Italy.

Distancing in public space.

What life will be

In the coming years after the outbreak of the global pandemic and other crises in 2020…

The pandemic already is bringing some kind of change, the evolution of digital life will have both good and bad sides.

Now we have the opportunity to use innovations and the lessons of the pandemic to create healthier and more fair societies.

Organized and clean public market

Health care.

Innovation in health can result in more affordable, more effective, and less expensive treatments for today’s stressful health care.

Problems from cost to medical errors require smart solutions, and more investments need to be made in innovation.

Limiting the spread of the pandemic help reduce economic impacts.

Social distancing design.

Efforts are being made to contain the pandemic include

  • Isolation, masks, distancing design
  • Preparation of sanitation facilities
  • Isolation of infected cases, contact tracing
  • Vaccination

    Various innovations have been introduced to answer the indirect and secondary impacts of the pandemic.

Social and economic impacts are emerging, but have not yet been totally unfolded.

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Regia Marinho

I write about ideas, technology, the future and inspire the world through art. https://regiaart.com