Flying the Plane You\u27re Building

Dialectic, 2022

Art Education, 2021

Arizona Anthropologist, 2021

In mid-March of 2020, my partner and I returned home from a weeklong beach vacation. It was such a beautiful trip, we joked that for our honeymoon we'd have to go to the moon to top the time we shared together then. Traveling back to Arizona wasn't as much of a dream. We were already leery of being around crowds during our flight, in the airport, and on the bus ride home, as COVID-19 cases were rapidly increasing worldwide. A lot of my fear related to not knowing if I might infect my high-risk family members and others in my community when I returned home; I could have unknowingly been the cause of someone's death. To avoid this, I commenced extreme social distancing measures including visiting the grocery store only twice per month and taking evening walks, avoiding any contact with those outside my household. The pandemic was upon us and what had been unimaginable became our norm. During the beginning of the COVID-19 social distancing measures, I began working from home for my full-time job along with preparing for my PhD comps exam. The dominant belief that working from home was less productive than working in an office with a supervisor measuring every minute of Arizona Anthropologist 30.

PANDEMICS AND THE CHANGING BUILT ENVIRONMENT LEARNING FROM HISTORY, PLANNING OUR FUTURE , 2024

Viruses & bacteria have always been, and continue to be a possible threat to humanity, infecting and potentially killing millions. Some diseases are exaggerated while others are fatal, either way, the fear of death plagues our thoughts as a viral pandemic crisis threatens our existential being. In 2020, a virus identified as COVID-19 spread dramatically throughout the world, forcing different states and countries to declare a state of emergency, thereby enforcing a lockdown on its citizens. Such a phenomenon drives people to adapt to new living conditions. As a result, dwellings have been revitalized in their fundamental functions, reassuring us in their essential role as a “safe haven.” Due to the resurfacing of our dwelling’s importance, we started to adapt to different social measures, these measures that have been ignored for some time now are regaining their existential importance ever since they had been lost. This paper discusses the impact of the COVID-19 Virus on our dwelling habitats and social environment in an urban context. Moreover, we show examples of how dwellers remodified their interior spaces to enhance their overall well-being.

Design and Culture, 13:1, 2021

Editors’ Introduction to Special Issue (free access) This special issue of Design and Culture emerged from a call released in May 2020 while we were still in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Noting that the pandemic had radically altered our relations with things, spaces, and one another, we called for dispatches that would register and articulate its immediate and unfolding experience. In particular, we wanted to pay attention to the dramatically deepening systemic social and geopolitical inequities and new territorial divides it created, seen through design perspectives, approaches, and sensibilities. Our editorial brief was not specifically geared to collect examples of design “solutions” to identifiable (and obvious) design “problems” related to the pandemic. Rather, we aimed to convey a more nuanced and expanded notion of design as a social sensitivity, critical lens, and proposition of tangible values and aspirations. We were also interested in experiences from various subject positions, from those who spent the quarantine working or studying from home to essential workers and frontliners, aware that the virus was far from a “great equalizer” and that “risk is not equally distributed” (Jones 2020). In terms of format, we sought a variety of responses – from text to audio and visual work – that would capture the different affective and material dimensions of the pandemic experience.

Education Sciences, 2022

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Springer eBooks, 2022

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IVT Network, 2021

Coronavirus control measures remain a central concern for workplaces, especially with more employers encouraging a return to office (or some form of hybrid working). This article looks at the indoor climatic conditions most conducive to coronavirus survival and, based on these risk factors, considers the optimal mitigation measures that can be considered for lowering viral transmission. Not every mitigation measure will be practicable, and the balance is towards the use of portable HEPA filtered units. This article considers these factors from the perspective of a standard room (such as an office). Published as: Sandle, T. (2021) Return To Office: Coronavirus, Risk, And Control Of The Indoor Environment, IVT Network, 26th August 2021, at: https://www.ivtnetwork.com/article/return-office-coronavirus-risk-and-control-indoor-environment

2020

In mid-February, as my latest teaching contract at Lincoln University approached its end, COVID-19 was a very distant problem. Only a week or so later and COVID was a very real and much closer problem as hundreds of Chinese students started returning to Lincoln from their combined Christmas break and Chinese New Year celebrations. As March began, the scale of the pandemic became global and personal. All China Southern Air flights from Christchurch through China were cancelled, and, as a consequence, my flight to Ireland via Guangzhou no longer existed. A week after arriving in Ireland, using a rearranged flight via Dubai, the Irish government initiated unprecedented actions: schools were closed, six nations rugby was postponed, and, as a potent symbol of the perceived threat, Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day parade was sadly cancelled.

The pandemic is fast moving, accelerating rapid changes that lead to new challenges and making organizations suffer an impact. A big mark has been left on the workplaces - places where we do business, because an ongoing change to remote work challenges the role of the office. It is highly possible that as the change is progressing, it is not only the workplace that will change its design, but also the way in which work will be planned, organized, done and controlled. However, as the restrictions ease up questions appear: What is the potential of office sustainability? How has the perception of flexible office space changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? This paper used an online survey as a quantitative research method. In this paper, we looked at the employer’s vision of the office. We investigated employers’ perspectives of where and in what settings the work will be done in the post-pandemic time. Specifically, we discussed the changes employers will apply in terms of work environ...

International Journal of Medical Students

This article summarizes the novel experiences of a team of medical interns posted at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The authors describe the protocols, guidelines, duties and procedures that were to be followed while deputed to screen the incoming international passengers for possible exposure and symptoms of coronavirus. For the young healthcare workers, in the early days of their internship, being a part of this team was no less than a roller coaster ride. From anxiety and excitement to fatigue and crippling exhaustion, the authors narrate their ordeal as young COVID warriors on duty.

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2021

The very first email I received that mentioned the novel coronavirus disease 2019 was on February 14, 2020. Valentine’s Day. In a newsletter summarizing science highlights, a few short sentences announced the name of this new virus that had infected thousands of people as “COVID-19,” and the fact that experts had yet to find a good method for its diagnosis. The second email about COVID-19 that I received was from work on February 25; it explained that the spread of the virus was likely to impact international travel. It provided information from the Centers for Disease Control and recommendations to wash hands and use hand sanitizer to prevent its spread. There was no mention of wearing masks yet. In the subsequent weeks, I heard from more organizations and groups I’m affiliated with about the emergence of this disease and speculation from each group about the seriousness of the situation. For many people at that point, it was something too strange or too worrying to think about. But for me, this disease led to an entirely new line of research.

Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings

was conducted to better understand the challenge of adapting idealized infection control design guides to site-specific conditions during a pandemic. The study aimed to capture quick interventions that are working, offer a new hypothesis and framework to guide future design interventions, and share lessons to assist other medical facilities as they pursue their own necessary spatial adaptations moving forward. Three units repurposed for COVID-19 were studied. Using action cameras and cloud-based videoconferencing, clinicians helped designers remotely peer in real time to active COVID-19 units, create "heatmap" annotations of perceived risk by frontline clinicians, and conduct interviews with decision makers. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health care systems around the world to provide safe and effective care. Leveraging spatial design, architecture, and design hacks offers an untapped opportunity to support infection prevention and improved team dynamics, ultimately improving the safety and the effectiveness of the health care team by creating an environment that supports infection prevention and team function.