Quale mobilità per la prossima normalità? La lentezza come strategia nel tempo post-Covid 19

The Covid19 pandemic has opened unexpected scenarios in our ‘normality’ by launching some provocations which, if caught, suggest new ways of urban design&planning. Till now, the use of speed has been excessive and excessively driven by the most polluting and invasive forms of private mobility. Not only cities and territories have embraced vehicular traffic, but also societies and individuals have undergone the fascination of speed to the point that they can no longer separate from it, stopping any possible alternative. The lockdown has overturned part of all this by araising a series of social and urban questions that had been forgotten. These include the right to slowness, that is to say, to experience the city at different rates than those imposed by ‘accelerated normality’. This contribution focuses on those questions to understand if and how to make more room to slowness in the design of our cities and territories. It is up to us to grasp the opportunity to begin a great change and to eliminate unsustainable habits that we have considered normal for too long.