The incorporation of the gender perspective into the design and construction of common space leads to a drastic change in the premises on which town planning acts today. A new city culture needs a new city model that should rebuild the knowledge and patterns we apply out of habit into the planning of our towns and villages, and redesign them and adapt them to the whole citizenship.
The main challenge is reconsidering the city as a place for everyone, breaking the current habit – the result of this society that is not ours anymore – that maintains city design and pattern guidelines that not only do not help to build a more egalitarian society but they also contribute to solve through a social crisis the cultural change that is taking place.
Building a space that suits everyone leads us to completely different formulas than the existing ones and to define innovative actions in building public and private spaces. Civil services should encourage the necessary actions to make these changes possible by promoting collaboration from different fields and participation of the different actors involved in designing the city.
Objectives:
The aim is to create a space for dialogue and theory accounting around gender, town planning and the city, and the implications of this new viewpoint of daily life based on the equality between citizens.
The conference revolves around two main subjects:
- Town planning from the point of view of urban service infrastructures, public spaces, transport, equipment and housing.
- Town planning from the point of view of citizenship, their values, fears, identity and memory as elements to define spaces for coexistence.
- City and public space
- Housing and community space
- Transport and accessibility
- Work time and space vs. leisure
- Equipments: daily infrastructures
- Safety and coexistence
- Bringing together in a unique space the best contributions on the state of the matter at an international level and bringing it closer to town planners and experts in municipal management.
- Establishing new chances for dialogue and exchange among woman thinkers and researchers in our environment.
- Incorporating the gender perspective into the technical and political fields, and into the redefinition of their patterns.
To whom they are addressed:
The conference is both addressed to people working in subjects related to town planning and the city, and to people working on man-woman equality policies.
The profiles to which we address are:
- political and technical positions in the field of the civil service
- professionals in the management local territorial areas
- professional and citizen associations
- students and professionals