Call for contractor to build pod to allow grandparents and children to hold hands

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2020-05-11T05:00:00

Scott Brownrigg - the Social Contact Pod

Source: Scott Brownrigg

Scott Brownrigg designs portable room divided by plastic membrane

Scott Brownrigg has designed a portable building that would allow elderly people to see and hold the hands of their families, albeit through a flexible plastic membrane.

The “social contact pod” has a Perspex partition separating the vulnerable person from their visitors, with an area of plastic membrane that would allow for safe hand-holding.

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