BODILY INTERFACES
Neo Hygiene is not just increasing hygiene. It is also about using new design assignments that come with it as an opportunity to increase the quality of life. A doom scenario for how we are going to deal with the design of public spaces would be when public spaces become museums with the signs 'do not touch' everywhere. For new product interactions, it is important we don’t look only at preventing touch, but rather at creative alternatives for touch.
With lock downs all over the world, we saw how limiting it can be to have a society which is not prepared for a pandemic. Neo Hygiene is about creating conditions to move freely in public thus increasing hygiene. We will swift from designing spaces based on manual touching to bodily touching. Public space design makes us use our elbows, shoulders, legs and feet when interacting with our environment.