The disruptions of the global pandemic have dismantled our status quo in a space of 2-3 weeks. It demonstrates that the wounds of our commons have fundamentally and irrevocably shifted. We know now that we can’t build back to what it was before - that the global pandemic has shown up in harsh light the fundamental cracks in our global systems and structures. And thus, the institutions we were prior to this cannot be the institutions we must be post this. What could the new normals in a post- COVID world look like, how do we design for a more just, more equal world, that pays attention to those that would normally fall between the cracks? How do we make the invisible, visible in our new world?

April 10, 2020