When aviation returns after COVID-19, it will look very different - the fundamental tenet of passenger experience, fitting the most people into the smallest space, is now a human health risk to be mitigated.Enter Janus, the two-faced Roman god of time, who looks forward to the future and back to the past. Janus is also a new seat concept from Italian seatmaker Aviointeriors, and the company hopes to start a conversation about what the passenger experience of our slowly restarted world might look like.https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2020/04/20/aviointeriors-proposes-post-covid-19-janus-seats/
Called The Edge of the Present this VR experience starts with a sparsely furnished room that opens onto a series of beautiful vistas when you open windows and a door in the room. You effectively transform this very bare environment into a very positive setting.The installation drew large queues at The Big Anxiety festival in 2019, a UNSW initiative in association with the Black Dog Institute, A Suicide Prevention Research Fund grant will see the installation exhibited later this year as part of The Big Anxiety festival in Brisbane. There is longer-term potential for the installation to be adapted for suicide prevention in care settings such as clinics, providing a positive and beneficial experience for those in crisis.This would be a world-first for psychiatric emergency if the experience can be proven to cultivate neural pathways for positive thinking.
A pandemic will pass but the effects of climate change would be irreversible. Let's learn from the pandemic. Covid-19 has put science front and centre. It has been met with a resurgence in bipartisanship and has energised society into acting in the public interest.Science, bipartisanship, and public interest: we’re going to need all three to address the climate crisis. It will need deep, complex engagement with genuinely difficult policy decisions based off rigorous scientific advice, paired with commitments from all political camps to rise above meaningless “gotcha” point-scoring, and acceptance from all members of society to incur relatively small costs today to avoid far greater ones tomorrow.https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete
Give your video calls a makeover, with this selection of over 100 empty sets from the BBC Archive. Game shows, Sports desks, Sit coms, SciFi and all your old favs from growing up. I've chosen this one from Absolutely Fabulous!Click on an image to bring up a full quality downloadable version, right click and select "Save image as...", then set it as your background image in your video conferencing application.https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/empty_sets_collection/zfvy382
