Care, community and reuse of places

Our contemporaneity is profoundly influenced by abuse of nature, space obsolescence and abandonment, mass migration, questioning how we can live together sharing places, taking care of each others. In addition to urban density and soil consumption, abandoned places and interrupted landscapes, the recent COVID 19 pandemic have proved megacities particularly inadequate to prevent contagion diffusion and to provide healthy psychophysical conditions. This should push us to change our ways of being and thinking, to adopt a systemic point of view, recognizing that we are part of something bigger and deeply interconnected. The extraordinariness of the situation is imposing an indispensable and inescapable change of our priorities, the use of a framework capable to increase the intelligence of our surroundings, based on consciousness, culture and creativity, promoting a development founded on the reduction of resources waste, sense of belonging, proximity, mutualism and inclusivity. Interior Architecture and Design can reverse the appetite towards overproduction, foster the reuse of existing assets and enhance their stratified memory, acknowledge that urban and natural spaces are part of a whole ecosystem and promote a new urban ecology.