Our exhibition contribution Caring Infrastructures – we have the response-ability for the exhibition Welcome to the Re_Public investigates the potential of the public space during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, while also aiming to encourage people to think about future uses of the urban street space in particular. The “new” normality is shaped by a retreat into the privacy of the home. At the height of the pandemic, public and cultural life was almost brought to a standstill, creating cityscapes shaped by empty streets and vacant public spaces. In the project Caring Infrastructures, the streetscape becomes a field of experimentation where structures for a new kind of solidarity can be developed in a time of social isolation. Which places of day-to-day interaction can support us in taking care of each other and our environment in this “new” normality? The Caring Infrastructures collection will be published on the website Catalogue of Possibilities and new ideas will be continually added in the course of an OPEN CALL.

Partners: Liebling Haus, Welcome to the Re_Public

Support: Austrian Cultural Forum; Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport; Municipality of Tel Aviv- Yafo; Tel Aviv Foundation; German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community