Since March 2020, with the advent of the Covid-19 virus and pandemic, touch has become a regular feature of media headlines. Media responses to the pandemic, and the need of governments to communicate a public health message on the need for vigilant hand-washing and social distancing, have honed attention and importance on the when who, how and what of how we touch ourselves and one another. Despite how Covid-19 has necessarily reshaped our social landscapes of touch, the messages of earlier headlines on touch persist, if amplified or weakened. The importance of touch and its social power are central to this story, alongside the risk of touch and being touched.
In the pandemic, we are restricted in our social life daily. I was also isolated away from neighbors, family, friends, and boyfriend. Social distance and quarantine brought me the importance of how crucial the “touch” is in our sense of interaction between person to person. I wanted to visualize the gesture that comes from when we touch and interact with people. I have observed and recorded family, friends, and people around me to get data of gestures that are found the most. 15 gestures were commonly observed and visualized into digital shapes. Eventually, the new interpretation of gesture will give the power to cure people’s mind in this difficult time.

*Personal project done by myself, from idea mapping to development