As the world continues to struggle with Covid-19 and prepare for any future pandemics, designers and architects are thinking of new ways to create buildings €”ways that account for social distancing and lessen the spread of germs and disease. Schools, for example, could move more toward a  learning hub style, where students gather in smaller groups and the walls of the school building itself are no longer as important.

Airport terminals are likely to  increase in size, with security checkpoints spread out rather than in a single place all passengers must pass through. So, what will museums of the future look like? (article)

. Low-cost approaches to putting exhibitions online (museumsassociation.org, 30/09/2020)

Sea Change  is an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Fife and the Year of Coasts and Waters 2020. It was designed to explore what our seas, and the fishing industry, will be like 50 years from now.Environmental sustainability was a major theme and we devised displays with a degree of digital delivery in mind. We also wanted the exhibition to have a strong family focus and to €œgamify € the often complex scientific theories.  This all stood us in good stead when the museum was forced to close in March with the onset of lockdown. We already had some elements of the exhibition available online, such as the  Fishing Boat of the Future game created by Reclaimer Games and a podcast series, and during the period between closing and staff being furloughed, we moved the rest of the display online.  A restricted budget of £3,300 meant the graphic design for the exhibition had been done in-house, which made it relatively easy to create additional graphics for online-only aspects. (article)