SOBRE RESTRIÇÕES A ESPAÇOS RESTAURADORES EM AMBIENTES URBANOS: ALGUMAS REFLEXÕES

Abstract

Proposing reflections based on elements of Environmental Psychology, this essay addresses issues related to losses in the enjoyment of public restorative environments, in an urban environment, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of restorative environments is supported by the Theory of Restoration of Attention and the Theory of Psychophysiological Recovery from Stress. In both, restoration comes from contact with natural environments. Urban restorative environments are particularly understood as those spaces of nature (green spaces and blue spaces) present in cities, with public access, providing restoration in the face of stressful everyday conditions. With the social control of spaces and displacements in search of social isolation to face and contain the pandemic, access to restorative environments in cities was also limited. On the other hand, the domestic space, the stage not only for moments of rest, has also become the place of work and study, a situation that slips into confinement, in its limiting and anxious dimension. Questions are raised about the possible effects of the pandemic on society.