Publication: Designing for gender equality: spatial thresholds as empowerment devices
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2023
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AESOP
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Designing for inclusion, justice, and care means questioning how different bodies and voices are made visible in space and how architecture can translate their needs, aspirations, and identities. Historically, the heard and visible voices were those correlated with the mainstream, usually Caucasian, abled-bodied males, who addressed design through the lens of a universal man. Designing through a feminist critique means questioning whose voice is represented and how this attitude can inform a different kind of engagement with people and the environment. The idea of collaboration and co-design that permeates this approach to architecture allows for blurring the lines between public and private, individual and collective, considering the thresholds between these dimensions as places where empowerment, justice and dignity arise. In this sense, the contribution proposes a reflection on the design of collective housing conceived as catalysers of inclusive and democratic practices, able to foster gender equality through design.
Keywords: Feminist Critique, Spatial Thresholds, Empowerment through Design, Collective Housing
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Book of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023
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CC BY 4.0