Healing, in its amorphous holism, doesn’t easily translate into a design brief or an architectural program. But a visit to the exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum shows that healing is not altogether elusive, nor incompatible with design.
Co-curated by Boston-based MASS Design Group and Cooper Hewitt’s Ellen Lupton, the exhibition, which runs through February 20, highlights design interventions fueled by an indomitable spirit of care that cuts across cultures and disciplines—before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lupton was inspired, she said, by the variety of creative work “initiated by people and organizations, not big government agencies,” from zero-waste scrubs to daily information graphics.
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