WHO's COVID-19 Design Lab #1
'Reducing Transmission'
In October 2020, as part of WHO's Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN) Youth Engagement, young people from around the world were invited to re-imagine WHO messaging around ‘reducing transmission’. The WHO COVID-19 Design Lab aimed to engage youth to co-develop solutions to fight fatigue and misinformation.
130 young people from around the world people signed up to participate in teams or as individuals. This group included doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 patients, scientists, public health professionals, graphic designers, poets, singers, a beat boxer, a dentist, writers, communication specialists and many more. Within one week, 79 young people submitted 28 creative ideas.
Submitted work was reviewed by WHO using a grading criteria, including technical and scientific accuracy, creativity, potential impact and quality.
Thank you to everyone that participated!!
Scroll down to see the 2 winners and to view some of the submissions in the gallery. We anticipate this to be the 1st WHO COVID-19 Design Lab in a series. Sign up to our WHO Youth Engagement mailing list to be notified of future creative challenges and opportunities for engagement and collaboration. For more information on EPI-WIN Youth Engagement click here.
Winners
CHECKMATE, COVID
by Ina Liu
Author bio:
Ina Liu (Instagram: @doseofadvocacy) is a clinical pharmacist working in the USA. She is passionate about the intersection of arts, healthcare and policy.
Her submission CHECKMATE, COVID is a series of posts designed for social media, each chess piece symbolizes ways to reduce transmission and designed to look like common chess pieces. The mask – a pawn, washing your hands – a queen, opening a window – a castle. The colours were chosen intentionally, with bright colours to attract young readers, blue and orange combinations to remain color-blind friendly, and the white chess pieces to symbolize that we can take the first step to reduce COVID-19 transmission, as white usually moves first in chess games. The phrase, “CHECKMATE, COVID” symbolizes that we can beat COVID-19 by following the recommendations to reduce transmission.
Be your own hero
#BeYourOwnHero campaign by Christina Wong, Francesca Hartley, Lavanya Gunturi and Maria Gabriella Donato.
Team bio:
Christina Wong (LinkedIn @cewongdesign) is a freelance designer based in Silicon Valley and a Gilman International Scholar alumni. She is passionate about designing clear communication systems which drive social impact. Christina cares about responsible tech and all things Tolkien. Lavanya Gunturi (Instagram lg_designwork) is a visual and UX designer from the US, passionate about social innovation, creative problem solving and creating human-centred solutions design work. Francesca Hartley (LinkedIn @francesca-hartley) is an intensive care nurse with a background in healthcare communications. She is passionate about health promotion for hard to reach groups and driving change in the healthcare sector. Maria Gabriella Donato (LinkedIn @maria-gabriella-donato) is an experienced user researcher and certified enterprise design thinking advocate from the Netherlands. She is a digital consultant with an entrepreneurial mindset passionate about traveling and social impact initiatives.
The ‘Be Your Own Hero’ campaign is a ‘gamified’ social media campaign aimed at young people aged 18-25. Inspired by research, the campaign appeals to the emotions of our audience and provides an environment which renews their sense of purpose and identity within the context of the pandemic. Ultimately the aim is to inspire them to practice preventative behaviours.
Gallery
Thank you to everyone that participated!!
We anticipate this to be the first WHO COVID-19 Design Lab in a series. Sign up to our WHO Youth Engagement mailing list to be notified of future creative challenges and opportunities for engagement and collaboration.