Abstract

ROS-GARCIA, Juan M.. Spatial variables for the post-COVID coexistence era: Proxemia, proprioception and seclusion. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.3, pp.211-223.  Epub Dec 02, 2022. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v32n3.99615.

The new patterns of social behavior, currently imposed by health restrictions during the pandemic have led to changes in the spatial relations of coexistence, with direct repercussions on the urban environment. In the current waiting moment, faced with the question of knowing the changes that the measures adopted by the health authorities will cause in the built environment, a cycle of proposals opens. These proposals interact in an imagined space, evolve towards maximum diversity, and suggest an open process in permanent temporal reconfiguration. This is a moment of reflection in which it becomes necessary to rethink the minimum distances and use surfaces involved in the design of the living environment. Once the open contradictions between sustainable urban development and the needed social distancing have been pointed out, it is necessary to deepen in the characterization of its variables in order to recognize those factors that endanger the conquered social cohesion. Proxemia, proprioception and seclusion presented as the three qualities of space. These are three variables that are proposed to encompass and interpret the spatial spheres of influence subject to a new environmental security of coexistence and development. They have the property of characterizing a complementary type of herd immunity for the recovery of the new normal.

Keywords : urban design; pandemic; sustainable development; urban sociology.

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