Post-Pandemic Public Spaces - Episode 1: Challenges
Maurice Harteveld – Developer (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
H.J. Stuer – Producer (Student TU Delft)
M.A. van Kessel – Producer (Student TU Delft)
Olivier Wiegerinck – Producer (Student TU Delft)
Edzo Bindels – Performer (West8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture)
Ellen van Bueren – Performer (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Annemieke Fontein – Performer (Gemeente Rotterdam)
Lior Steinberg – Performer (Humankind)
Co Verdaas – Performer (Waterschap Rivierenland)
Ton Venhoeven – Performer (Venhoeven CS)
Nathalie de Vries – Performer (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment, MVRDV architects)
Linda Zuiderwijk – Performer (Zuiderwijk Stadssociologie)
Claudiu Forgaci – Other (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Birgit Hausleitner – Other (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The first episode of the documentary Post-Pandemic Public Spaces ‘Challenges’ introduces expected paradigmatic shifts caused by the situation induced by the COVID-19 crisis. It extends the discussion on public space, which has been about making cities more sustainable and liveable while working with major transitions. During the pandemic, health has been challenged in addition. Also, new ways of using public space have become manifest. This exposes different claims. Can we continue to use public spaces as we did? Are we reverting to our old behaviour? Do we realise how important public space is? In conjecture with the challenges that already emerged before the crisis, we can question if we shouldn’t reduce traffic, for example, and kick-off from our car addiction? New challenges have an effect on the size, accessibility, and quality of the public spaces and, together with changing human needs, its presence and design remain to be essential in the future.