Giulia Annalinda Neglia, DICAR, Politecnico di Bari, ITALY

Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with Balkan Architectural Biennale - BAB 2021 International Conference: Global Village – Shelter for Resilient Living

RESILIENT OPEN SPACES IN URBAN RISKS

Author: Giulia Annalinda Neglia, DICAR, Politecnico di Bari, ITALY

Abstract

The pandemic has spread in 2020 and has not ended yet. This is leading to dramatic changes not just in our social behaviors but also in our built environment. While in a first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic spread there was a drastic reduction in the use of public open spaces (such as streets, parks and squares), as soon as the first wave ceased scholars started discussing possible urban transformations, envisioning, in the long or medium term, new social patterns and changes in the built environment. Moreover, during the lock-down, small urgent and needed physical adaptation of open spaces, permanent or temporary, have changed the way we live and move in our cities, villages, camps. Since then, due to the unprecedented changes in our social behaviors experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars, students and practitioners all over the world are increasingly discussing the relationship between survival of social life and adaptation of urban form and open spaces to the new distancing needs. Accordingly, this paper aims at discussing the following questions: Which are the new perspectives for the new role of open and green spaces in the built environment? How can we regulate social behaviors through designing open spaces? How can we reconsider the role of public spaces after 2020? Through theoretical investigation and design proposal it will try to envision possible design strategies to adapt open space design and transforming green areas into resilient spaces adaptable to different needs and pandemic scenarios.

Key words: Open green spaces, landscape architecture, design for adaptation and resilience.