During the crisis, there has been a dramatic transformation in the way we access and share knowledge, how we produce and consume and our perceptions of proximity. The global pandemic has opened opportunities for hyperlocal interventions that can aid those living in and in the transition from confinement to a more resilient, new normal.
The Hyper Domestic x Hyper Global project is a living repository of practices that are occurring domestically across the world which people are using to solve local needs. The repository follows the method of open source documentation and is thematically inspired by ‘Con Nuestros Propios Esfuerzos’. The documentation projects the world in January 2021 - imagining near-future scenarios in the context of the post-Corona society.
The Master in Design for Emergent Futures (MDEF) is proposing a revision of the publication from the Cuban government during the 1990s. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, Cuba underwent a ‘special period’ in which documented living realizations from a transformed socio-economic world. This repository and publication has been developed by MDEF's tutors and students from the context of a new ‘special period’ - the society during and post COVID-19.
