After almost two years in pandemic confinement, experiencing our domestic spaces intensely, we have discovered new spatial categories and places to relate to each other. For example, during the liberation parentheses, wherein many cities we were allowed to meet with few people and only in open spaces, our living rooms have gone out the streets. This way businesses such as cafes or bars have taken their tables to the outside massively, to allow that extension of our houses and their lounges in public spaces.

The goal of this workshop will be to rethink and design this new type of urban lounge that has emerged after the pandemic, going beyond a place for consumption or commercial exploitation such as cafes with tables and chairs. The design will surely have to consider a type of furniture but now it becomes a new design opportunity that generates an urban totem or attractor defining or symbolizing this hybrid space between the living room and the street.

1. Snežana Vesnić & Marko Ristić “On the Second Analog Space”;

2. Sara Nikolić “Ethnography for Design” & Sanja Iguman “Spatial Cosiness”