Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Landscape design & COVID-19. Progettare per la natura
Segregazione: silenzio, parla la natura

Still Life – Natura Morta: the landscapes of proximity

Sasa Dobricic
Università di Nova Gorica
Marco Acri
University of Nova Gorica

Published 2021-07-26

Keywords

  • Pandemics,
  • Social distance,
  • social space,
  • proximity,
  • urban landscape

How to Cite

Dobricic, S., & Acri, M. (2021). Still Life – Natura Morta: the landscapes of proximity. Ri-Vista. Research for Landscape Architecture, 19(1), 64–83. https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-10298

Abstract

The social distancing does represent an oxymoron: how can there be distancing if what characterizes the very sociality is the proximity between individuals, and generally living beings? Comparable to living dead space (Todd R.W., 2007) or more notorious “still life” or “natura morta”, the paradox remains unsolved:  how can something like nature that is impregnated with life, be dead?