New on the Bloomsbury Geographer blog is a lovely photo essay by Johara Meyer.
In it, she documents some of the changed spaces she has encountered and gives ideas for how they can be explored ourselves.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered geographies of our everyday world: analyses of local / regional / global transition patterns underpin efforts to “flatten the curve”, human behaviour in places is governed by geographic containment strategies, and inherently spatial concepts of ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-isolation’ are now part of our day to day language.
This is going into the bank for an offline activity and possible field trip activity as well.
We used a version of this in the first lockdown.
As Johara says:
Space at any particular moment in time “is in the process of being made. It is never finished; never closed” (Massey). Thinking of spaces as “a product of our relations with each other” gives me hope that currently, dead spaces will be full of life again when social distancing measures are no longer necessary.
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