MOVIDA* personal device to promote social distancing

*Movida – - term of spanish origin used to describe that particular situation of animation, entertainment and youthful nightlife within a city.

The ongoing health emergency has changed many of our habits, and in particular places serious limitations on the pleasantness of convivial situations. The entertainment situations that characterize events, parties and nightlife are often a distinctive element for many areas of big cities (just think about Navigli area - Darsena in Milan, Rambla in Barcelona, ​​Champs-Élysées in Paris, etc. .). In these situations, maintaining the social distancing, indicated by the prudence rules for limiting the spread of the infection, are objectively difficult to maintain.

So here is a simple object, easy to use, low production cost, nice and usable even post Covid-19 (as a game element).

It is a ring (or frisbee) to be worn on the head or over a hat to identify a 50 cm circumscribed area around the user. If all the participantsof a party wear their own delimited perimeter of 50 cm they cannot approach (adding the two areas) to less than one meter.

The ring could be distributed at the entrance of the nightlife areas to all those present and, at the end of the evening, it could be hold for subsequent occasions.

MOVIDA is made of polyethylene or polypropylene using up to 100% recycled material and can be made in different colors. In the production phase can also be inserted photoluminescent pigments generating coloured "aureoles" during the nightlife.

MOVIDA was born in response to the invitation of the Mayor of Milan Sala addressed to the collection of proposals aimed at restarting after the Covid-19 lockdown (Milano 2020 strategia di adattamento).

PROJECT SHEET: MOVIDA