Social Distance Droids

2020

What is the practice versus policy of social distancing in public space? What are the new lines & rules for city planners or facility managers? As the public return to the parks, squares and waterfronts, cities need to new systems that not only ensuring socially distancing by making visible and accessible. 

“If you’re not measuring, your not managing...”  

If 1.5 is the new unit of measurement of collective space in a post pandemic world, What devices, technologies and techniques are available to keep us safe, secure and informed? 

Solution

In the summer the Bureau Marineterrein used a happy little painting bot to create 1.5meter social distancing circles on park area along the waterfront to help visitors keep safe distances from one another. Thanks to their little green WALL-E (in time lapse) we begin to see what a post-Corona park looks like.

Using computer vision we can clearly measure the ‘before and after social circle’ data sets. On hot days for example we see around 150 people max in the picnic area as a safe capacity. 

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