By Elise Talgorn Elise Talgorn is Senior Design Strategist, Philips Experience Design & Visiting researcher at the Department of Sustainable Design Engineering, TUDelft / Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering 2020 disrupted the economic, social, and healthcare landscape. Even though pandemics had been a subject of conjecture for a while, we did not expect Covid-19 to change so brutally the essence of how we live, work, teach, cure, love. In a matter of months, billions of people were locked in their home, sitting all day in front of screens. They reminded me of the immobile lonely brains, fed by home delivery and interacting through robots, in the sci-fi movie Surrogate. I use this comparison…