I began a journal back in March 2020, when the OMS declared Covid 19 pandemic. It reports family life, my view about sociopolitical events, cumulative gains of science against covid-19, professional expectations, along with descriptions of other situations. It is written by the morning, and it takes from 5 to 20 minutes. The number of pages equals about 20 scientific papers. In a way it can be seen as a waste of time in terms of urban studies productivity. But another way of reading it, is to find urban situations and urban related descriptions that can be detached from other parts of the journal and be shared within a common ground of looking at and exploring everydayness of cities. The panel summary offers the rare opportunity of going beyond classical research; it includes the chance of taking care of one another as urban subjects. So, I suggest for this presentation to share my flashes of urban situations and urban related reflections, complemented with pictures. More than an egocentric exercise, while reading the journal, I have found (and propose for debate) that there are specific everyday scenarios that are more common than individual ones, and this discovery relates to the feel that we are inhabiting a new old world since the beginning of 2020.

Panel 11 organizers

Pandemics,Journal,Urban Situations