COVID-19 as a catalyst for collaborative city-making: from emergency to praxis

The crisis resulting from the spread of COVID-19 is having important consequences on the development of the contemporary city, notably in the rethinking of public and collective spaces. To avoid contagion, restrictive measures and social distancing have been put in place: the two main consequences have been the digitalization of many sectors and the spread of tactical urbanism actions. In this paper, it will be argued that hyperlocal, understood as a collective and participatory design facilitated by information technology, can be a solution not only to the ongoing emergency but to the challenges that contemporary society poses, since it appears to be a valuable practice in rethinking and redesigning our neighborhoods and cities in a more open, inclusive, and therefore more resilient way