Every critical moment in history returns public space to center stage. The Covid-19 pandemic, for instance, with its distancing requirements, has generated interest in reassessing existing urban spaces and generated a trend toward the development of new types and forms of public spaces.  After Distancing: A New Index for Public Space explores the condition of contemporary publicness, with a focus on public space in urban settings. “Publicness” is increasingly being recognized as a central notion in contemporary debate, in conjunction with understanding of its critical importance for democratic life. The outcome of a conversation across disciplines – namely, architecture and sociology – After Distancing retraces the historical evolution of publicness, so as to better imagine its contemporary challenges, recognizing that public space is inherently messy, conflicted, and varying [Support for this project was provided by Trento University and Tel Aviv University].