Invited Talk on Post Covid-19 Urban Life and the City.

June 30, 2020

Invited Talk on Post Covid-19 Urban Life and the City.

From the New Normal to the Stable State: Navigating Urban Form and Urban Life Dialectics in a Post Pandemic Virtual World
Ashraf M. Salama

Part of UMAR - Union of Mediterranean Architects
POST COVID-19 ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
30 June 2020 - 4.00-6.00 pm (CET), Online.

The meeting aims to investigate how Covid-19 has impacted the world with particular attention to Mediterranean Countries; and how the community of architects reacted and the good practices implemented. We intend to investigate in particular: Complexity teaching architecture online-distance learning assessment, Inspiring best practices in different Mediterranean sections, Housing design development versus Mediterranean societies’ lifestyle (the new idea of “Home” versus work / educational places), Impact by different “National Associations of Architects” in the Mediterranean region to the pandemic situation, among others.

Michael Crosbie interviews Ashraf Salama on possible outcomes in a post-coronavirus world.

How Might the COVID-19 Change Architecture and Urban Design? Ashraf M. Salama, a professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, and the director of the Cluster for Research in Architecture and Urbanism of Cities in the Global South, has been following how these disciplines might be changing. He’s recently written a publicly peer-reviewed paper on some of his findings: “Coronavirus Questions That Will Not Go Away: Interrogating Urban and Socio-Spatial Implications of COVID-19 Measures.” I sat down with Salama to discuss some of the issues he raises, and what their implications might be for the built environment in the future (7 May 2020) (Feature image taken from CommonEdge by Andy Yueng, as part of his “Urban Density” drone series).