Post-Pandemic Public Spaces - Episode 5: Behaviour

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Authors

Annemieke Fontein Gemeente Rotterdam

Ton Venhoeven Venhoeven CS

Contributors

Maurice Harteveld Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (developer)

Hanlin Stuer Student (producer)

N.A. de Vries Public Building and Housing Design , MVRDV (performer)

Linda Zuiderwijk Zuiderwijk Stadssociologie (performer)

C. Forgaci Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (other)

B. Hausleitner Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (other)

M.A. van Kessel Student (producer)

O.H.E. Wiegerinck Student (producer)

Edzo Bindels West8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture (performer)

Ellen van Bueren Management in the Built Environment (performer)

Lior Steinberg Humankind (performer)

Co Verdaas Waterschap Rivierenland (performer)

Research Group

Urban Design (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)

COVID-19 Public space Public health Urban design Urban sociology Sport Public Space Behavioural adaptation Behaviour Behavior Recreation Behaviour change Behavior change Behavioral adaptation Use patterns Pandemic Outdoor training Gathering

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Published Date

27-05-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Urban Design

Abstract

The fifth episode presents 'Behaviour'. With the interviewees, the discussion on inequality is stretched to people’s behaviour in the public space. How has it changed during and after the pandemics and did their perceptions of public spaces change along? City beaches and parks have become popular, while the lack of outdoor terraces, restaurants, or discos has been manifest. Measurements taken during the pandemic have forced a change in our behaviour. While social distancing will be abandoned and masks in general, we seem to have become aware of human vulnerability. Public health will be related to public space again. What more will stay in the future? A lot of people have canceled their sports club subscriptions. Everyone is training outside now. It's really nice to see all those active people, says Annemieke Fontein; but at the same time, it also takes up space and changes the nature of parks as designed for quiet relaxation. Also in other forms, we can see that the need for connection, and in particular for encounters and meetings, in public spaces has grown. Yet whereas online presence continues to grow, thus new networks emerge and ways to meet change, thus place to meet also change. Communities gather in a wide variety of public spaces. Are new bubbles emerging? When will people come together as a whole? The culture of a place; and of a city will change and develop. Appreciating public space as a daily life environment in the Netherlands has one of the positive outcomes of the pandemics.