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Behavioural Patterns: Covid-19 Contributions

Behavioural Patterns is an ongoing project that calls for responses to the changes and experiences observed in the built environment, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Space as the new Communication Tool by BeyondStudioBorders

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Just as we realise the need for human connection, the city’s social landscape has been attacked.

We have moved inside, caged ourselves.

We did not pay much attention to how bad it is to constantly be indoors because no one was imposing it on us. Before Covid-19 we felt we had control over it.

It is not a choice anymore.

We have started craving the outdoors; the spontaneity, the play, the interaction.

The city had to adjust to protect us from a virus but the way we use the city has adjusted too. Public space is being redefined, constantly changing; eye contact replaces physicality and space is becoming a communication tool.

We use a new spatial language, body language, to communicate safety and respect. We are creating new pathways through urban space to stand committed to combating the virus. This is our retaliation to the attack on the social landscape.

As we start to look beyond lockdown, we must ask ourselves as designers: how will we shape the humane city of the future?

Credits: BeyondStudioBorders
Written by: Mart Musekura, Giorgiana Balauca, Freya Macleod

Website: www.beyondstudioborders.com
Twitter: @BeyondSBorders
Instagram: @BeyondStudioBorders
LinkedIn: BeyondStudioBorders

Aoife Nolan