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DesignUp ✊Issue #87 > Fight The Pandemic Issue: Do, Donate, Design + 2020 Circuit

This is an issue packed with all things to understand and take the fight to the pandemic: resources, maps, data visualisations, things to do, design and ways to donate time and money... Plus a few bonus reads and announcing the first event in DesignUp's 2020 Circuit

Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come. They will shape not just our healthcare systems but also our economy, politics and culture.

Do, Donate, Design

In an urgent effort to mobilize the global design community to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Design Organization (WDO) is calling on all available designers to commit to an initiative that will propose design-led solutions to a number of pressing challenges that are affecting us all.

Hit by lockdown, stranded on roads – India’s daily wage labourers, who live from hand to mouth, are struggling to make ends meet. Here’s your chance to help them. This is a regularly updated list of over 50 organisations in multiple Indian cities. Donations of all sizes (and of time), welcome.

New or established projects helping with the COVID-19 crisis that need help. You can volunteer here or create project and invite volunteers. Opportunities for Designers too...

We are living in unprecedented times. The World Health Organization (WHO) is leading and coordinating the global health response to coronavirus, helping to ensure all countries are ready to prevent, detect and respond to the pandemic.

Stay Informed

The way that data is presented can also make a difference. Many different organizations are using visualizations of the current coronavirus that allow the data be viewed and understood more easily in order to improve the response. Here are some of the data visualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic that can help everyone stay informed

Scroll down towards the bottom to see a variety of maps that you can customise, expand and explore - a world of fascinating connections, beautifully traced.

A much shared, wonderfully illustrated piece from NYT: The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why.

Resources & Updates

From the good folks at TheBetterIndia - this is a super useful (and ever growing) list of resources, people, organisations in India doing their bit and positive stories in times of the pandemic.

Attend, Read...

We are living in unusual times. The whole world is grappling to fight an invisible virus that seems to have taken over our lives. While writing this, the number of people affected is inching towards a million. So how are Indian Designers responding? Here's some early examples...

Register for the first Webinar in the DesignUp 2020 Circuit

Written for the DesignUp Deconstruct Report - Meeta Malhotra's wonderful look back at India's Design-In-tech Evolution story: It should come as no surprise that the evolution of ‘Design-In-Tech’ in India mirrors the ‘tech coming-of-age’ of the country. Noteworthy, however, are the nuanced differences between the trajectories of technology and design, which may hold clues to where we will go. Here’s a look at the major influences on the evolution of Indian technology-related design from 1990 to 2007.

Until next week,