Author: Caroline Sinders Photo Credit: Helena Majewska Early on in the pandemic, I wondered what people were doing to foster delight? As a speaker and artist, I missed conferences, and events. The happenstance of one conversation leading you down a whole new path of research and discovery to explore. To me, that happenstance was the ‘delight’ of events. Perhaps that seems naive, and simple to wonder, during a time of fear, death and destruction. But delight, and social connection, is a form of social resiliency, and a part of our social fabric. These forms of delight feed our brains, and our souls. What were we doing during the pandemic to continue to support and scaffold our communities, as we switched from offline, physical events to online spaces? © Courtesy of Caroline Sinders With funding by Omidyar Network (and outreach support by the Mozilla Foundation), from March to June 2020, I interviewed 25 individuals in response to how communities were organizing and creating spaces of interaction during COVID19. I spoke to artists, conference organizers, digital experience designers, ad-hoc DJ networks, teachers, mutual aid group organizers, and curators about how they were shifting their community and artistic collectives and arts venue to
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