public life
PUBLIC LIFE by EUTROPIAN With the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, public space was one of the most affected parts of our urban life. With the shut down of shops, parks and other gathering places, public life came to a halt in the past months, leaving scars in our social and economic life. How can…
Cities with a “15-Minute-Plan” for the post-Covid
Cities with a “15-Minute-Plan” for the post-Covid by SIMONE D’ANTONIO There is no doubt that urban residents who are going to better resist to the consequences of the lockdown are the ones who are living in neighbourhoods with a direct access to services, shops and green areas. The current crisis is showing the urgency of…
Sixcs produly supporting cooperative city manifesto for planning post-covid cities
sixcs produly supporting the cooperative cities manifesto for planning post covid-cities Europian and Cooperative City advocate to build cooperative cities in the post-Covid phase to make sure no one is left behind. As editors of this blog we decided to join their Manifesto, contributing to advocate for Europe to support the social and solidarity economy…
Privileging the Under Privileged
by ANNEYSA GHOSH A model of mutualism appears in my post-Covid-19 world perception. Confluence of the world’s greatest social security systems to detangle the informal economies in mega-cities. Communities being reshaping through COVID-19 In the lives of the millennials, the few months of lockdown shook their entire identity. An identity of superficial connectivity and outwardly…
Covid-19: the unexpected revolution
by TONI URBANI Half of the world is in lockdown under the pandemic. Pandemic is just one of the nouns that we have attached to the situation that we have been living in. However, according to the many definitions given to this phenomenon, it could also be referred to as Covid-19, a war, a restriction…
MAKING ROOM FOR PUBLIC LIFE
by CHIARA LUCCHINI The need to adapt public spaces to safety measures has stimulated many cities to start new initiatives and make policies which could potentially redefine roles and balances in the uses of public spaces. A great opportunity we shouldn’t lose. A big change that should be accompanied by more discussion. The end of…
Community centres and ACTive NGOs
by EUTROPIAN As we all know, the Coronavirus outbreak has changed everybody’s daily habits, and the way people live within their community and neighbourhood. What can community centres and NGOs do to continue offering their services in order to help those who benefit from them, especially during this challenging time? On 8th April 2020, Levente Polyák (Budapest),…
the challenges and potential solutions of the cultural sector
by EUTROPIAN The Coronavirus pandemic is causing huge damage in both physical and psychological terms in all fields of life. At the moment, approximately eight million people are working in the cultural sector in Europe. As the COVID-19 spreads and the lockdown expands country by country, we are evermore aware of the fact that the…
POLITICAL BODIES AS STRESS COMMUNES
by ANTONIO DI CAMPLI Writing about how Coronavirus is redefining our urban condition one month after the start of the ‘lockdown’ could recall the German architect Ernst Neufert that in the summer of 1942 started design experimentations on anti-bombing housing typologies for German cities under siege. A condition considered as a ‘new normalcy’. Many things…
Wild at Home: some observations on the imagination of nature in a time of pandemic
by LUCILLA BARCHETTA The covidays go by and I can’t stop thinking about the last time I went out for a stroll. It was a Sunday afternoon and although spring had almost arrived, the sky was white-greyish and the air was cold. “The cold will not stick around forever”, I said – eyes closed and…
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