SPECIAL ISSUE – COVID-19 ONE YEAR IN
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Could workplaces give space to schools?
– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020
The education fragility of marginals has always been a challenging issue for any state. The developing nations have an extreme shortage of resource…
Thinking the city through COVID-19
– from Xenia Kokoula, Berlin, 26.05.2020
In March 2020 work and everyday life was suspended, put on hold for millions of people. Suddenly confined within their homes, in front of their ske…
Children’s hopes and well-being
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020
This is a photo I took from my window of a group of children playing football in the space in between two buildings in Ramadan during night curfew …
Z/Room Society
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020
This image is a “still” of the first step of the quarantine period. The anxiety of the unexpected state of suddenly being alone, forced to be inert…
Uneven Pandemics
– from Nicolas Goez, Berlín/Medellín, 31.05.2020
I dwell two cities. In one, I am physically present and sometimes mentally absent. In the other, I am emotionally roaming through its streets, park…
Greetings from the Gold Coast
– Karine Dupre from the Gold Coast, 02.06.2020
Tablescape from my living room, inside out.
Lady Palms and Lilli Pillis compete to attract lorikeets and silver orb spiders; blue sky and metal …
Masks in Street Markets
– from Hellen Aziz, Mansoura, 05.06.2020
This photo was taken on 5th May 2020, during my field work in El Kafr street market in the city of Mansoura, in the Delta of Egypt, as a part of my…
Looking for an urban oasis…
– from Georgina Eleftheraki, Athens, 16.06.2020
COVID-19 brought, in a strange way, the city to the forefront, both in terms of housing and public space. On one hand, the confinement to the house…
A democratic awakening
– from Joel Mills, Washington, DC, 19.07.2020
To live in the District of Columbia is to experience a civic schizophrenia. Like all cities, we have a unique local identity, but we are inhabited …
Walking together during self-isolation
– from Nonument Group, Ljubljana, 21.07.2020
In times of the shutdown due to Covid-19 epidemic, collectivity had to be reinvented. In early March, Nonument Group planned a series of discursive…
Through and beyond horror (space and time) vacui in Catania?
– from Elisa Privitera, Sicily, IT, 22.07.2020
In 2007 the renowned Italian artist Franco Battiato was singing “vacuum”, considering it both in terms of space and time, referring to it like the …
Lockdown Landscape
– from Estefanía Piñeiros, Edinburgh, 28.08.2020
The window of one hour of exercise a day during lockdown allowed me to discover many interesting places in the vicinity of my home. Strolling aroun…