Organized by Wageningen University assistant professor Agnes Patuano the symposium ‘Public Outdoor Spaces and Covid-19’ held on 24th and 25th of June, 2021 addressed the question “How will the COVID 19 pandemic impact the use and design of public spaces, and how was it impacted by them in the first place?”

The symposium brought together recent research from WUR, HvA, BOKU, Radboud University, Marie Curie University, University of Milan, Aeres University and Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina.

Mathias Lehner contributed with a talk on his approach and research on nature-inclusive public space, with a focus on reclaiming ‘car-space’ in cities, in order to redesign integral blue-green-grey networks that boost quality of public space, while contributing to human health and well-being. Read the summary here.