Beyond C-19: Resources

An essential first step is to understand the likely implications of COVID-19 on human experience then start to respond, today. We see five major human implications to expect from people’s behavior now and next which are likely to shape a New Human Experience.

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The oldest members of Gen Z came of age in the sharing economy and expect on-demand access to everything from vehicles to entertainment to food. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find, generally speaking, that Gen Z is loyal, socially conscious, fiscally responsible, physically active and strives to find mindfulness and purpose in their daily lives.

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On the horizon is a massive wave of demand for apartments that stretches well into the future. [But] by 2030, the world’s likely going to be a much different place.

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Five foci for design and decision making and the features behind them to discover how this emerging population (Gen Z) may influence today’s real estate strategies and tomorrow’s real estate value propositions.

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13 Principles of Home identify what is generally important to people in an urban home and how each principle may be impacted by future trends.

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While high-rise living may not be to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic, it has contributed to its spread. But is living in a high-rise building necessarily a health risk? And if so, could we build healthier high-rise buildings to guard against future pandemics?

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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing a rethinking of the multifamily amenities so important to attracting and keeping tenants in apartments over the last decade.

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To have a balcony during coronavirus is to enjoy fresh air without anxiety. A lack of private outdoor spaces in many cities is partly by design.

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This crisis underscores the role that technology must play in the smarter and more efficient functioning of our cities at all times. The rapid deployment of technology, along with the associated infrastructure to support this deployment, needs to be the first priority of post-pandemic cities the world over.

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Changing resident demands presents opportunities for owners and operators to capture in the coming years.

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Policymakers should plan beyond the immediate crisis to address long-standing societal issues. Indeed, worst-case planning ultimately can produce valuable, permanent benefits beyond battling the crisis. Poverty and lack of safe, sound affordable housing, underlying contributors to the crisis, are among the persistent issues worth addressing.

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In these difficult times, modern residence halls can help provide emergency accommodations when needed, and perhaps more importantly, can become flexible to meet unanticipated needs better in the future.

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Analysis of what role panning and design have during the onset of an unexpected and unknown pathogen such as covid-19.

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The very thing that has made cities vulnerable in a pandemic has protected them in other disasters - Density.

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Alina Hernandez is the co-founder of the First 1,000 Days of Wellness and vice chair of the Mental Wellness Initiative of the Global Wellness Institute. Here, she writes about wellness in the time of a pandemic.

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From Auckland to Bogota, urban planners are already adapting our cities to lockdown. But will the changes last, and which more radical design proposals -- be it sewer monitors or "epidemic skyscrapers" -- will shape the post-pandemic city?

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A conversation with the dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The private Catholic university plans to reopen its residential quarters.

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Work to prepare for resumption of activity has been closely informed by our medical and public health experts.

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Is it crazy to think that a new virus could be more of a catalyst for online education and other ed-tech tools than decades of punditry and self-serving corporate exhortations?

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Leaders of the state’s major colleges and universities planning a very different return to campus.

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UCSD is about to launch a test of a program to monitor student health with an eye to return to campus in the fall.

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Three U.S. local governments plan to sign deals this week to become the first to adopt a location tracking app aimed at preventing new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus.

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Gen Z’s impulse to congregate online and post constantly—which older adults often mock—is serving them well in self-quarantine.

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The virus challenges the foundations of diverse ideas from diverse students in a college classroom.

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Cornell is working through the summer to create a plan for reactivating campus, teaching, and more.

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The virus has hit black families both with infections and job loss, undercutting the core population.

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UK studio Curl la Tourelle Head has designed a concept for tent classrooms that would allow students to return to schools while maintaining social distancing guidelines.

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Highly detailed health oriented guidelines addressing presence on campus, medical testing and care and communications.

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The AAUP has come out with a list of principles as to how they recommend universities handle the COVID-19 outbreak, how employees should be treated, and the effects of COVID-19 on curriculum and instruction.

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High school teacher Larry Ferlazzo discusses how he invisions high schools, as well as possibly middle schools and elementary schools, might be different when they reopen.

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A lot of what happens depends on factors outside the control of individual schools: Will there be more testing? Contact tracing? Enough physical space for distancing? Will the coronavirus have a second wave? Will any given state allow campuses to reopen?

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The investigation by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) into an outbreak in a high-rise building in one of Seoul’s busiest districts has shown how the virus can trigger clustered infections.

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With governments and companies around the world looking to ease lockdowns, minimizing virus transmission at work is now at the top of many organizations’ agendas.

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The South Korean government has released detailed advice on how workers can return to the office safely.

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COVID- 19 has put future mental healthcare provision firmly in the spotlight. Healthcare system s across the world are experiencing huge surges in demand.

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Early detection is critical for effective public health response to infectious disease outbreaks and for improving treatments.

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With the coronavirus threatening to become a pandemic, health systems and telehealth vendors see this as an opportunity to bring connected health to the forefront - and reshape the future of healthcare.

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The benefits of telemedicine are all encompassing and attainable for small and large businesses alike.

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An Interview With BetterUp’s VP of Product, Gaurav Kataria.

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COVID-19 will force a rebirth of many industries as we all sit at home in lockdown, re-assessing and re-imagining modes of consumption, supply, interaction and productivity.

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Understanding exactly how these clouds travel and disperse is critical to containing infectious respiratory diseases such as COVID-19.

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This is the company's second test to receive Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA for COVID-19 detection; combined, Abbott expects to produce about 5 million tests per month.

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The goal of planning and coordination efforts is to provide leadership and coordination across sectors.

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Four dimensions of stakeholder trust.

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Preparing for the “next normal.”

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Technology has always evolved faster than humans. Now, for the first time, behavior is changing faster than technology.

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Based on our synthesis of over 4,000 studies, interviews with dozens of telework enthusiasts and naysayers, researchers, venture capitalists who invest in the remote work model, Fortune 500 executives, virtual employers, and dozens of home-based workers in wide variety of professions, here’s why we need to make the road less traveled the way to work.

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Today’s digital interactions will have long-term effects.

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A practical guide of actions your business should take now.

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How organizations should respond to the never normal.

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As the country begins to reopen after quarantine, gyms are in the first wave. Here's what that will be like at the start.

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Studies suggest that social distancing measure that affect gatherings like concerts may need to be used until 2022.

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By every measure, the coronavirus pandemic has decimated the travel industry.

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While not everything being tried is working, many of the promotions, programs, and changes are gaining traction. The question for all of us is this: Which of these new operator actions will stay with us and how will they change the industry?

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While an Amsterdam restaurant places diners in their own individual greenhouses, designer Christophe Gernigon conceptualizes plex’eat which suspends XXL protective visors around the diners’ heads.

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Waiters wear gloves and transparent face shields, and use a long board to bring dishes into the glass cabins to ensure minimal physical contact with customers.

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Coronavirus will lead to a rise in escapist restaurant interiors, while physical menus, cash payments and buffets will largely be abandoned, according to a trends report by Dubai-based studio Roar.

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Rhe initiative gives visitors visual guides that delimit safe socializing areas due to COVID-19, making sure they can sunbathe and enjoy time outdoors while maintaining the required distance.

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The decisions officials make during this pandemic could have implications for the future of designing for the public realm.

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As city dwellers around the world are forced to stay closer to home, some architects are rethinking urban infrastructure to promote a more local lifestyle and help people adapt to a post-pandemic world.

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“As it has always been, the safety and security of our guests and team members remains our highest priority.”

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With most trips canceled, here’s what the travel industry is doing to help the coronavirus response.

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How will design change to fit this new normal?

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MatchLine Design Group Co-Founders & Principals Lesley Hughes-Wyman and Tamara Ainsworth share their insights on current hotel design schemes and also offer their perspective on potential changes.

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Hotel owners and investors are facing sharp declines in occupancy, which is likely to lag for some time. What’s ahead for the hospitality industry when travel starts bouncing back?

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Throughout Asia hotels such as the 36-year-old Prince that have been around for a long time and were planning to renovate just before the crisis find themselves in a fortuitous position.

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UK architecture studio The Manser Practice has outlined how hotels could be adapted to allow social distancing when they reopen, and how future designs will be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Compared to “regular” recessions, which affect men’s employment more severely than women’s employment, the employment drop related to social distancing measures has a large impact on sectors with high female employment shares.

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When Pew Research Center began systematically tracking Americans’ internet usage in early 2000, about half of all adults were already online. Today, nine-in-ten American adults use the internet.

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Paul Reville says COVID-19 school closures have turned a spotlight on inequities and other shortcomings.

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The COVID-19 pandemic provides a number of examples of ways in which diversity and inclusion can help companies before, during and after the pandemic.

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Given the increased focus on this particular preventive measure, it is important for employers to ensure that when they take employees’ temperatures, they do so safely. 

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Entrepreneurs and academic gene jockeys are hatching schemes for population-level coronavirus testing.

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As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads, what we know and don’t know about the pandemic changes almost daily.

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There is a saying that is rather common among the critics of the military profession that “soldiers are always preparing to fight the last war.”

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An animal model of human isolation must be taken more seriously if we want to advance our understanding of the mechanisms for the effects of objective and perceived isolation in humans.

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The normal state of the human condition is to be social animals. There are exceptions where isolation can lead to positive outcomes, but these are rare.

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Now, healthcare professionals are seeing the real risk of failure to use PPE, rather than discussing risk as a hypothetical worst-case scenario. Healthcare workers are now the most at-risk population for coronavirus simply because they see so many infected patients.

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This year we could see a 7 percent drop overall in global emissions, more than double the 3 percent drop following the 2008 financial crisis.

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The choices that governments make to restart their economic engine, including the long-term social, economic, and environmental co-benefits they seek to achieve through their stimulus investments, will be extraordinarily consequential in ensuring that they can build back stronger and better.

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From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has put the wildlife trade and particularly wild meat consumption under the spotlight. Could regulating the different uses of wild animal species be a more effective response than a total ban?

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Dramatic changes taking place locally, regionally, globally, demand that we rethink strategies to improve public health, especially in disadvantaged communities where the cumulative impacts of toxicant exposure and other environmental and social stressors are most damaging.

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The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity is essential to maintain ecosystem services, agricultural production and ultimately human nutrition and quality of life.

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This concept of “Livestock Farming with Care” is founded on care ethics with an integrated approach based on four principles.

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Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms.

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The overuse and misuse of antibiotics in the meat industry is contributing to the rise of antibiotic-resistance in the U.S. and across the world.

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Orangutans that were rescued and are in sanctuaries are staying put because of coronavirus. About 300 rescued orangutans were scheduled to be released into the wild but their release has been delayed.

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The Framework for Design Excellence is made up of 10 measures, formerly known as the COTE Top Ten. It organizes our thinking, facilitates conversations with our clients and the communities we serve, and sets meaningful goals and targets for climate action.

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The Living Building Challenge is an attempt to dramatically raise the bar from a paradigm of doing less harm to one in which we view our role as a steward and co-creator of a true Living Future.

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The idea that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.

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Biophilic design can reduce stress, enhance creativity and clarity of thought, improve our well-being and expedite healing; as the world population continues to urbanize, these qualities are ever more important.

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Resilience is about being prepared for the unexpected, about keeping safe during emergencies, and about bouncing back (and, yes, bouncing forward) from disturbances. Our resilience as individuals, as communities, and as countries is being tested. Let’s take a look at why resilience is so important during pandemics and what we can do to improve that resilience.

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Resilience is the capacity to adapt to changing conditions and to maintain or regain functionality and vitality in the face of stress or disturbance. It is the capacity to bounce back after a disturbance or interruption.

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In his recent book The Biophilia Effect, Clemens G. Arvay cites many such experts, whose research suggests an entirely different approach to protecting ourselves from illnesses, both physical and mental.

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