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2021

2025

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Graphic Panel, Mutual Aid

This is a Graphic panel. It is a part of the department.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, mutual aid organizations around the world delivered food to neighbors in need, ran errands for housebound people, and created masks and other protective equipment. Many of these loosely organized groups relied on social media and tools like Google Docs to organize volunteers.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 167.6 × 167.6 cm (5 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 6 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics.

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