During the pandemic, we remembered the value of our mental health, which we do not care much about in our daily routine. After the challenging 2020, we have entered a period of mental recovery. Designers also play an important role in this recovery process. The necessity of transforming our living spaces, whose impact on daily mood is obvious, is no longer an unquestionable fact.
In the busy city life, we started to feel the need for spaces where we could breathe and maintain social interaction more than before. In order to heral, we first need to redesign the places we live and work in according to our changing needs and priorities.
In this period when masks came into our lives, we missed being able to breathe to the fullest. The most important need for our physical and mental health is to breathe. We need spaces where we can stop and breathe, both in architectural design and urban planning. For this, we need to reintegrate the nature, which we have been getting away from, into our daily lives. Adding design elements such as living plants, natural textures, water and natural daylight to the spaces where we work and live will play an important role in this healing process. In the architectural design of future, spaces that blur the inner and outer boundaries and organic forms will come to the fore.
Another important pillar of recovery is being able to socialize as before. Social interaction areas will be reconsidered according to both the increasing need for hygiene and changing lifestyles.
Areas that are indispensable for people living in crowded cities, such as parks, sports and children's areas, will be designed to offer different experiences to the citizens beyond being just places where they can be outdoors. In order to develop urban areas, investments to be made in the local quality of life in the new period will be at the forefront. A period begins when we will heal with the power of design.