RESEARCH IN DESIGN FOR THE HEALTH EMERGENCY. COVID-19, EXPERIMENTS AND RELATIONSHIPS TO PROMOTE NEW SOLUTIONS.

The Pandemic has forced change, raising questions about design models, business models, incentives and community education. The urgency of containment measures has the role of Design, which is involved in emergency situations, in designing the universe of protective devices, intervening with human-centred Design approaches, proposing shared strategies that translate the knowledge and experience of the most advanced research into products. The case study collects the results obtained from the elaboration of the Region, “Smart&Safe.Design for new personal protective equipment” submitted to the call for the acquisition of research and Covid-19. The research constitutes a substantial study of the problems related to health emergencies and proposes an update in the redesignofPersonalProtectiveEquipment (PPE), now in a plural Intelligent Individual Protection System (IIPS), which determine a relational system of integrated protection.