Deeper Breaths | Designing on the Front Lines, Season 2, Episode 2
Channel: Cooper Hewitt
Date: 11/04/2022

Designers are working quickly to protect humans from illness. At the start of the pandemic, designs for personal protective equipment (PPE) had changed very little for nearly fifty years. In the face of alarming shortages, the global maker movement jumped into action, and legions of home sewers stitched masks for essential workers. Engineers, artists, doctors, and designers sought to improve the comfort, effectiveness, and sustainability of PPE. Meanwhile, official guidelines were shifting. What is the state of PPE design now?
 
Monique Smith, MD | Emergency Doctor, Founding Director, Health Design ED, Emory University
Adam Wentworth |Designer, TEAL Reusable Respirator
Sabrina Paseman | Designer, Essential Mask Brace

Designing on the Front Lines, Season 2

In this virtual forum, designers and doctors talk about designing better services, PPE, public spaces, and more in the age of COVID-19. Presented by the Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Season 1 took place in summer 2020.
 

Moderated by Morgan Hutchinson, MD and Ellen Lupton  
Production by Robert Pugliese