Reimagining Community Spaces After Collective Isolation
A community centre is one component of Canoe Landing in downtown Toronto, designed by ZAS Architects.
The shuttering of community spaces around the world, in the hope of limiting the spread of COVID-19, created an oddly shared global experience of collective isolation. Across continents, people reacted to the loss of official public space by creating innovative new ways to connect through ?together-yet-distant gatherings? such as neighbourhood porch parties, balcony sing-a-longs, remote film festivals or virtual zoo and museum tours. Despite these innovations, recent occurrences of ?social un-distancing? in parks and other urban pockets emphasize the necessity of reactivating our community infrastructure.
Designers of public facilities have a special responsibility to create spaces that limit the very real risk of infection while supporting, encouraging, and inspiring the social connections people need. This responsibility has designers grappling with what reopening will look like and how this pandemic experience has fundamentally changed the way we shape community spaces in the future. Recognizing the Inequities
Although we are ?in this together?, the absolute shutdown of public space has had an inequitable impact on individuals across the socioeconomic spectrum. Middle-class families may lean on fast internet service, decamp to the cottage or send their children to the backyard for daily exercise. Those with fewer resources feel the lack of community resources more acu...
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