A Plaguing Provocation
Five years ago, a plague forced us into a global crisis that directly impacted our daily lives, marking a drastic, irrevocable change in the ways we worked, played and habitated.
Or did it?
Have we,
in essence,
learned nothing?
My intrepid futures and foresight (and temporary disasterologist) Hyphae colleagues and I devised a series of whimsical interventions to help people think through what they would need to ensure their own survival in various types of plagues: not bare-bones actual physical survival techniques like having sufficient clean water, medications and a supply of canned food; there are plenty of much better places to get advice for that.
What I wanted to know was what people feel they need to hold onto the essence of themselves when the entire world around them changes.
Read on to find out what we found...
- Caitlin