Meeting Grounds: On Locality, Community, Connection and Care

On the physical and digital possibilities of public space in a world transformed by COVID-19

Featuring the works of nearly 40 artists, designers and writers, this publication surveys the formation of community and perceptions of the public amid COVID-19, exploring new communal digital spaces produced in response to physical isolation. Themes explored include: liminal public spaces as sites of community; body politics as markers of citizenship; dualisms of place and space; codes of community, care and intimacy in the digital sphere: and the spatial blending of public spaces in private arenas.

Contributors include: Brogen Berwick, Cleo Broda, Roberta Cesani, Lenn Cox, Jolien De Nijs, Gilles Dedecker, Lewis Duckworth, Alexandra Fraser, Quentin Gaudry, Amy Gowen, Myriam Gras, Floriane Grosset, Claudia Hackett, Melle Hammer, Jess Henderson, Emily Herbert, Eva Jack, Jonathan Johnson, Tamas Kondor, Zoie Kasper, Ola Korbanska, Clara Amante Mendes, Anna Maria Michael, Gina Moen, Ronal Nijhof, Riitta Oittinen, Amy Pekal, Katerina Sidorova, Maaike Twisk, Iris Van Wijk, Nico Vassilakis, Jorne Visser, Anna Weberberger, Jodie Winter and Chiara Zilioli.