“… With these questions I came across, I came through an experiment. An experiment where I would post pieces of advice in a relationship forum. It was fun at first, knowing what’s happening to other people around the world. But as I thought about it more, it’s seeing the people’s inner worlds of secrets where they can’t tell other people…”
“This study trip got canceled, and the evolution of the events brought the entire class to an existential conundrum: how to design for a place that you have never visited? And how to brainstorm design ideas on tracing papers and models where you can’t share architecture studio spaces anymore?”
“…it is mandatory to wear gloves, everybody is scared and looking at you with skeptic eyes whether you might have “it” ( the virus) or not […] It was not fun at all. […] However, the entire situation taught me many positive things. It taught me to be super creative (during birthday celebrations, during moment of complete boredom and on deciding what to eat)…”
“Although my parents live in China, I don’t have Chinese citizenship and therefore am currently prohibited from returning home for the summer […] I am getting more pessimistic every day about returning to our normal lives…”
“…The school shutdown period has been extended because of people who don’t keep social distance thinking that it would be okay…”
“I still haven’t heard from the university about whether I can stay on campus for the summer, and because of the airline restrictions, I can barely find an air ticket that will get me home…”
“…I’ve kind of been enjoying quarantine […] I was just happy to finally have time to myself to rest and not have to be around people for the next few months. I love my friends but it all got way to much for me and I needed a break […] I finally got some time to myself and I can finally hear myself think again…”
“…This was not my usual ‘I couldn’t sleep because I just watched a cute love story’. No, this was fear. Real fear. For the first time in my life, I felt true fear…”
“…We are riddled with paradoxes[…]. While many of us are feeling the frustration of being quarantined, we are also secretly glad for too much time on our hands, something we have all complained about not having in the frantic-paced life, pre-Covid-19…”
“The differences are stark, and have become more pronounced in the last ten years. The average worker – now known as Essential Worker – has seen very little in the way of pay increases […] There very well could be some good to come out of this pandemic, if we so choose.”
Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic is an initiative sponsored by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University.
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