The virosal coronation of the world raises philosophical, political and vital concerns and calls or demands to think again about the already devalued theoretical-disciplinary arsenal of architecture. For the time being, the virtuous restoration of the Foucaultian hell of panoptics and different models of reclusion and therapeutic segregation of bodies can be seen. What took a century to counteract – that insidious functionalist vocation of separating, distinguishing and classifying, which perhaps unites the ideas of the end of the 18th century with the spirit of the CIAM – is reborn, valued by the hygienists who cry out for help from specialist-spatialists who ensure social distances and porosities as well as manage to make the lockdowns more pleasant. With concerts of balconies and unusual plant arrangements and various effects to avoid spatial deficits. Suggested directions for reflection:
1) At a distance, it may be interesting to analyse the social diseases of the mid-19th century;
2) The pandemic becomes a syndemic (a new name that seems to exalt its magnitude) as a double consequence of economic-cultural globalization and the intensity of liquid economies-cultures;
3) An almost joyful return to a certain ultra-valuation of the criterion of a medieval city;
4) As a slightly allusive expression of establishing one’s place in the world of each of us; s radical terraplanarist geometry of lines, points and crosses is proliferating everywhere, either as indications of the desire;
5) Recent urbanity agglomerates people who maintain intense features of rural culture;
6) And the most radical but still invisible end: the apparent collapse of the global economy.
Astragalo invites interested authors from different disciplines who know how to address the above arguments to participate through articles and reviews.