Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Spatial Planning and Design Symposium, İzmir, Türkiye, 27 - 29 Kasım 2020, ss.32
Global warming manifested by the effect of human intervention in natural habitats; Many problems such as climate change, a decrease in biodiversity, bushfires, floods, and epidemics cause people to rethink life forms and spatial experiences in urban areas. As of 2020, the epidemic known as COVID-19 is one of the high mortality pandemics of recent times. After the emergence of COVID-19, social distance rules are applied as one of the primary mitigation strategies that force individuals to stay at home and avoid close contact with others in order to limit disease and death rates and prevent transmission of the pandemic. Since the day Covid-19 started, the importance of distance/space theories between people has increased and studies have been made to make them applicable in practice. The theory is a controversial explanation of how you interpret phenomena in the world, how we understand experiences, how we discover patterns, and how you produce meanings. Based on the controversial nature of the theory concept, the terms space, body, and distance, which gained importance with the Covid-19 pandemic, were associated with the personal space theory, which is one of the urban design discipline theories. Personal Space Theory covers the studies on how people use the physical space surrounding their bodies. The basis of the Personal Space Theory is that the desire to determine the physical distance of a person from others is a protective and innate need. In this context, it should be considered how the changing space-body-distance relationship with the pandemic process will relate to design within "new normals". The readings on how the Personal Space Theory can be included in the design and how it can change the protection distances of people are discussed. In order to support this, the way the designers perceive the pandemic process was taken as a basis, and the designers' understanding of personal space during the pandemic process was evaluated through online discussions. Although design is accepted as a selection process for how to develop relationships, it is seen that developing a theoretical framework in the selection of the space-body-distance relationship is a rather problematic area.