{"id":33850,"date":"2020-09-17T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceofthetime.net\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2021-07-29T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:04:46","slug":"on-how-the-corona-pandemic-influences-interior-the-practical-and-the-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceofthetime.com\/dlc\/2020\/09\/17\/on-how-the-corona-pandemic-influences-interior-the-practical-and-the-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"ON HOW THE CORONA PANDEMIC INFLUENCES INTERIOR; ‘THE PRACTICAL’ AND ‘THE VISUAL’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This blog is a follow up on my last two blogs called \u2018On how art and creativity can help us to stay positive and connected during the corona pandemic\u2019 and \u2018On how the corona pandemic influences the use of textile\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we saw in the art and textile sector, a lot is changed due to the corona pandemic. In the art sector, we saw people getting creative and feeling connected due to the process of making art which led to a positive outlook on the world for those people. In the textile sector, we saw designers looking for a way to create an anti-bacterial fabric, a fabric that tells a story about today\u2019s world and a concept on how textiles can help us to create distance from each other in a connecting way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The corona pandemic also influences the interior in many different ways. To arrange these changes, I choose to divide them into two clusters. \u2018The Practical\u2019 and \u2018The Visual\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Were interior was heading to a \u2018fashion over function\u2019 mentality in the last couple of years, it now goes back to the interior being functional and practical. One of the biggest changes in this \u2018pandemic world\u2019 is the use of anti-bacterial soaps and the use of facemask. These changes are also finding their way in the interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, the \u2018Sterilising Lamp\u2019 by Beijing-based designer Frank Chou, which combines an ultraviolet light (UV) with a tray. Chou says \u201cI designed a sterilizing lamp which functions as a tray and lamp that emits UV light. When people return home, they can place keys, phones, and wallets on the tray to sterilize. The user would press the cover body to activate the internal UV light source, the body then lowers to cover the items in the tray with the UV light. After 60 seconds the cover automatically rises to reveal the now-sterilized items again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frank Chou says he found inspiration when home became the space for work and life interchangeably. \u201cLife is the best source of design,\u201d he says. Chou aimed to create an \u201cunconscious design\u201d when creating the lamp, which he hopes can blend into the home and become part of people\u2019s daily routine, as opposed to a disinfection method that they consciously have to think about doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This UV lamp is a stylish concept for sanitizing everyday items. Chou aims that design is not only about the look or shape of something; its core meaning is to solve a problem, and that is exactly what we see happening with design in the time of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Italian lighting brand Artemide also created a special sterilizing UV lamp called \u2018Integralis\u2019. Where Chou\u2019s lamp is specially designed for the home and is not harmful to people, the Integralis is designed for offices and used at times when no people are around. This lamp can turn into room sanitizers that emit antiviral ultraviolet lights. It can be fitted to light fixtures and programmed via an app to emit normal light when rooms are occupied and ultraviolet (UV) rays when they are empty. While invisible UV light can kill pathogens including viruses, it can be harmful to humans. However, the blue spectrum of visible light can also have an anti-microbial effect. Artemide CEO Carlotta de Bevilacqua says: \u2018In the absence of people, higher energy levels and frequencies such as UV rays can be used, which also act on viruses.\u2019 Unlike cleaning products such as alcohol-based sanitizers, \u2018Light can act constantly to prevent the development of bacterial colonies,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
As I said before, one of the biggest changes in this \u2018pandemic world\u2019 is the use of anti-bacterial soaps and the use of facemask. The lamps respond to the use of anti-bacterial products, but what about the facemasks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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