StoDistante (which means “I keep distance” in Italian) is the installation designed by Italian practice Caret Studio for Piazza Giotto, a square in the town of Vicchio near Florence (Italy).
The designers want to encourage social distancing as a temporary solution for reactivating public spaces after Covid-19 lockdown ends: the installation consists of a 1.8-metre grid of squares painted onto the cobblestones of the square, acting as visual representation of the social-distancing rule.
The white squares of StoDistante project are made from removable paint, and have been added to the cobblestone floor of the public area in a lattice-like layout; when the pandemic is over, the water-resistant paint can be easily removed, and the square can revert back to its original configuration.
The result is a temporary infrastructure where citizens can reactivate open spaces and living a new social life in public spaces, despite the pandemic.
