Mutations in public space
A questionnaire for the future: first report on the data collected.
At the beginning of the pandemic, in April 2020, Concomitentes launched a questionnaire that invited citizens to reflect on the future of community and public life in a post-COVID-19 moment. We now share with you the first complete graphical overview of the data obtained through this survey.
In spring, in this strange moment of global disorientation, we wanted to see if the pandemic can also be conceived as aopportunity to identify what is important to us: as individuals, but also as a society.. The survey, which we called “A questionnaire for the future”, was open from 22 April to 22 June. A total of 498 people took part, mainly from Spain, but we also received many responses from Germany and a dozen other countries, mostly in Europe.
From the beginning we suspected that we would not obtain statistically valid values from this survey that would allow us to draw general conclusions.. We felt that with such a long and complex questionnaire we were not going to get a massive return, and we feared that we would not be able to overcome the sectoral barrier either. And indeed we did, the scope of the questionnaire was relatively discreet and most of the respondents worked in the cultural and social sector..
However, we believe that the soft data we obtained from this survey, the testimonies, elucidations and stories with which people shared with us their ideas, desires and fears for the future, have a high value for the experimental research with which we want to continue investigating the incidence of the pandemic in our societies, especially in terms of public space.
This research, entitled Mutations in the public space will delve deeper into some of the issues highlighted in the questionnaire in order to elaborate from there a series of podcasts and a publication offering a kaleidoscopic array of voices which offers a collective debate on the value of the commons and public space in times of collective crisis.
We leave you with a few more screenshots and share them on the pdf attached is a graphical summary of the data we obtained.
