Linking urban rhythms to emotions: the inevitable emergence of emotions in the covid-19 daily life’s arrhythmia

The paper attempts to draw a linkage between daily rhythms in a micro scale and emotional resilience. Firstly, the theory of rhythms is briefly presented, based on Lefebvre’s work Elements of Rhythmanalysis, in which the importance of deepening our knowledge on urban rhythms is suggested. According to Lefebvre, a stable or non stable frequency and repetition of a rhythm, can identify signs of illness, whether is for the micro (individual and his daily movements) or for the macro (economy, politics, society) life. Moreover, an arrhythmic situation can often cause a series of negative emotions, such as fear, anxiety and depression, proving that rhythms are directly connected to emotions. Secondly, a brief overview of the relation between emotions and social sciences is suggested, in order to highlight the importance in studying emotions and their social dimensions. In the third part of the paper, we discuss about Covid-19 (an arrhythmic situation both in micro and macro life), suggesting that, working on a stable daily rhythm in the micro life (a eurhythmic condition), could help in maintaining a positive emotional status; small interventions on daily micro rhythms (in other words, “bottom-up” solutions), could be the first step towards a more resilient, emotionally, society.