Project Stop Touching - Summer Danoe
Reframing hygiene tactics and accessible maker culture through a DIY lens.
Summary
While public places like schools and stores are slowly opening their doors again in Europe, we have to be cautious about how we can limit ways for the virus to spread. We have to suppress our natural tendency to touch the objects that we habitually touch. Many everyday objects require our hands to operate them. Doorhandles, water taps, soap dispensers, buttons and handrails are all things that are not only touched frequently, but by many people in relatively short spans of time. Instead of franticly trying to clean these objects continuously, we could try to come up with solutions to refrain from touching them with our hands completely. **A possible solution is to use "personal devices". Objects that are an extension of our own body that prevent direct contact with possibly contaminated surfaces, like doorhandles and buttons. In this project I aim to provide a solution to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus through surface contamination, that is accessible to everyone and doesn't depend on regular production methods.
Bio
Hi I'm Summer! I'm a 3rd year CMD student and I'm currently following the Makerslab minor. I like to work on both digital and physical products. In this project I tried create possible products to help prevent the spread of the Corona virus.
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