March 2022 Issue: Design 50 (Print Edition)

Hospital Hell The Psych Ward During COVID "As a psych nurse, my training limited my hand, making me unhelpful on a medical ward. What I didn't realize was that, as the weather warmed, my turn would come. I can peg the date to just before the Fourth of July 2020. As the fireworks went off above, hellfire was simmering below. It had been nearly four months of fearful patients avoiding the inside of a hospital. During these months their mental health clinics closed, their support groups were suspended, and virtual care dominated, which left patients without internet access hung out to dry." (Clarisse Casalino) The Art of Organizing How The Art Institute and SAIC Formed a Historic Union "It felt big. Last September, Kait Roelofs, an administrative director at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) stood on the front steps of the Art Institute amidst a 200-person union rally. The streets were still warm and loud with summer’s end; passing cars honked in support and the crowd