Dopo il burn-out: verso la progettazione di nuove “infrastruttura di cura”

In the last year, the pandemic has forced us to rethink most of the categories and competences we are accustomed to use when we think about architectural design and our profession as architects. At the same time, the idea that the city has to become an ‘immune space’ is a growing trend, often bringing with it reductive solutions and definitions of design and society. Starting from these considerations, this contribution defines the need to assert a renewed public dimension of the role of the architect and of the design itself, with the idea of a renewed social and spatial infrastructure to sustain this peculiar condition we are living as the core of the profession of the architect. This is then an occasion to assert a critical, radical and resistant-based design. To restart from the school, from its social and pedagogical role into a diffuse spatial context means to imagine an ‘infrastructure of care’ of the city and of its society.