SAFELY CONNECTED – Public space at the time of Covid-19

• planning solutions for a healthy and safe city;
• toolkit for the outfitting of the public space with modular and flexible equipment components;
• platform for the online sale of products from the natural shopping center corresponding to the historic center of Saint Germain-en-Laye;
• micro-mobility solutions to support the pedestrianization process of the historic center, refurbishment of spaces liberated from vehicular traffic, greater sustainability of urban logistics through forms of slow mobility and access management.

All the results have been incorporated into guidelines that can also be transferred to other contexts.
The main obstacles that the project has encountered are a direct consequence of the lockdown imposed by national and local authorities during the pandemic. First of all, the impossibility of testing the public space outfitting solutions live through the use of the designed modular and flexible equipment systems. To solve the problem at least in part, the research team of the Politecnico di Milano, relying on its knowledge and on similar experiences in the past, has adopted an alternative validation strategy based on fully digitized procedures. In particular, a specific form of virtual verification / validation of the proposed solutions was implemented and applied, through a public consultation initiative that made it possible to view the areas affected by the SGL experimentation, before and after the tooling interventions (returned and illustrated through digital techniques), thus noting the rate of appreciation and any suggestions.