Back to Nature: COVID-19, Utopia, and Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Brazil (additional Corona-related funding)

Due to the trivialization of the pandemic by the Brazilian government, the coronavirus represents an enormous threat to large parts of the population, especially in the urban centers safe, cleaner and supposedly more natural life emerged in the country, which is based on the Brazilian tradition of thought as well as on historical ideas, idealizations and utopias of rural life in times of crisis. The aim of the project is to document, analyze and historicize these current answers to the corona crisis in the south and south-east of Brazil. Back to Nature can thus make a contribution to the global and social history of pandemics, their social crises as well as past and present communal alternatives and mobility. In addition, it wants to provide impulses for new concepts in the design of society and public order, and to be able to improve social organization, communal living and public space in Brazil and elsewhere - during and after the corona crisis.