People across Europe are emerging slowly and carefully out of lockdown.
Italians, who have endured one of the world's longest lockdowns, have spent nearly two months couped up at home. They are now in phase two of the country's gradual re-opening and are allowed outside and to visit relatives in different regions. Museums and retailers will open from May 18 and bars, restaurants and hairdressers should follow on June 1.
As in the UK, Italians are being told to socially distance themselves. In Tuscany, for example, residents are required to stay 1.8 metres apart in public spaces and in effort to remind people, the pretty Piazza Giotto in Vicchio near Florence has commissioned some striking artwork.
Designers Caret Studio have created a temporary installation of white squares to form a photogenic grid throughout the square. Called ‘StoDistante’ (‘I’m keeping my distance’), the squares aim to help people judge distances and keep apart from one another.
Caret Studio says: "The weeks of lockdown have changed our perception of public space, and for our generation it represented the first time we had to fear the collectivity.
"This sense of insecurity together with a prolonged permanence in our private houses, has pushed us to rethink how we could regain possession of the public spaces. StoDistante represents a manifesto of this desire of a new sense of being together."
Take a look at the social distanced artwork in the gallery above.
