Title: To exist is to change.
Year created: 2021
Technique: Digital illustration using Adobe Illustration
Title: To exist is to change.
Year created: 2021
Technique: Digital illustration using Adobe Illustration
Author’s details:
Group: Siduduzo Shange, Sfundo Maphumulo and Lihle Zubane
Description:
Covid -19 has impacted the lives and well-being of many people all around the world. It has affected our four socio-economic factors which include occupation, education, income, wealth, and where someone lives.
People have lost jobs, or they are working from home. The education system has changed in the way that we have been introduced to online studying. With all these changes we are introduced to more and more technology. Almost everything now is done online, or it is self-service, and this is to minimums the spread of the coronavirus.
Social distance, wearing a mask, and sanitising have become a new” norm”. Designers now must design their designs keeping in mind these covid-19 elements when it comes to public design. The future of public transport will play a huge role so that people are at ease when it comes to being around a lot of people. The train station usually has a lot of people reason being that people find it cheaper than other public transport. To make it easier we have designed a train node that is inspired by the molded plastic organic round-edged blow chair by De Pas, D’Úrbino, Lomazzi, Scolari in 1967.
The design is an organic half-sphere-shaped shelter, and it is plastic moulded with pop yellow. The poster that shows the design node, is to also keep up with the 1960’s pop art theme. The black that has been used at the bottom is to make it seem as if it is floating when looking from the far. The node doesn’t have a lot of things in it, and this is to avoid people from touching things. The purpose of this design is to keep it simple and very minimal but keeping up to date with the latest technology. There is free Wi-Fi access so that people can book the tickets online but there are also self-service ticket machines that are next to the full-body sanitiser sprinkler. The ticket station also scans your temperature. This is also to help that all passengers are sanitised before they entire the train. We used solar panels because we are facing load shedding as a country. Solar panels can make their electricity through the process of converting the sun into electricity.
October 11, 2021
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