A research through design practice to envision home scenarios in the post-Covid-19 future

This research is born in response to the Covid-19 pandemic breakout worldwide and aims at shaping new domestic scenarios, which could better answer to the emerging needs at home. This research has followed a designerly way to build understanding and knowledge on unexpected emergency through integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data, moreover, a strategic design method, scenario building, has been carried out to transfer these initial themes/topics into 7 visionary scenarios, which could involve different actors, designers, experts, companies and also the public, in diving their opinions and taking actions to implement certain ideas and possible solutions to the ground. This research eventually provides an initial strategy and methodology for studies that aim at exploring visionary directions and proposals on social issues relevant to everyone and the common good.