Interactive Socially Distanced Design

 

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East London-based Accept & Proceed's proposal focuses on reshaping amateur football pitches to allow for matches to restart. It proposes placing colourful marking on the pitch highlight the area that each player can occupy so they do not come in contact with each other.

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Brand consultancy Dn&co chose to focus its Augmented Assembly response on Parliament square, although like many of the ideas it is designed to be appropriate for many open spaces. It proposes creating an app that would be used to project shifting patterns onto the ground so that spaces can be broken up organically, rather than using grids.

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London-based designer Paul Cocksedge's Here Comes the Sun blanket would allow people to "socialise safely and confidently" outdoors once Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have been lifted. The open-source design comprises a looping section of material in the shape of an outline of a circle and four separate pieces of fabric cut into circles, which can be placed around the outline at six feet apart. Called Here Comes the Sun, the blanket has been designed for a "post-lockdown future" to make sure people maintain the suggested two-metre distance while in social situations such as picnicking or sunbathing with friends.

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New York's High Line park has reopened to the public following coronavirus lockdown with 1,000 painted green dots graphic designer Paula Scher created as markers for social distancing. The High Line reopened on Thursday 19 July over four months after it closed due to the pandemic with a one-way system starting at Gansevoort Street.

Scher, a principal at Pentagram, designed the spots to cover the benches, seats and ground of the public park in repeated intervals to mark safe distances. Dots on the path, which was created along an elevated railway, are placed in rows that expand as it widens. The dots help users judge the way forward and how they should space themselves along the path as it becomes wider and narrower," Pentagram said. Scher has also designed signage with symbols in dots that illustrate three key instructions: stay six-feet (two metres) apart, wear a mask and move one way. 

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The grass of New York's Domino Park has been painted with white circles to encourage the public to stay safely apart during the pandemic. The design, which was created on Friday 15 May, comprises a series of white circles applied with chalk paint onto a plot of AstroTurf, or artificial grass. They mark out circles for groups or individuals to sit inside.