Rethinking the spaces of night-time sociability

Abstract

This essay explores how citizens re-imagine the experience of bar and club sociability in a post-pandemic world in relation to architecture, the organization of space, and leisure activity. The post-confinement future after COVID-19 affects the quality of being sociable while the effects of social and spatial isolation prompt different norms and rules of social interaction. The post-pandemic nightlife in cities needs to be re-evaluated in order to extend the spatial-temporal paradigm of sociability. Ultimately, the way we think about nightlife will change during the post-pandemic era, as the pandemic casts its long shadow. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Irene Gammel and Jason Wang;individual chapters, the contributors.