Feminist Placemaking
The myth of neutral design further reinforces disparities by assuming urban spaces serve everyone equally, ignoring structural inequalities.
Feminist Placemaking X The GenderedCity
What is Feminist Placemaking?
Encountering Patriarchal Urban Planning
What is Feminist Placemaking?
Feminist placemaking reimagines urban spaces by centering the lived experiences, needs, and aspirations of marginalized groups, especially women and girls. It challenges traditional, male-dominated approaches to urban design, seeking to create environments that are equitable, inclusive, and reflective of diverse realities.
Feminist Participation
Encountering Patriarchal Urban Planning
What is Feminist Placemaking?
Feminist participation emphasizes inclusive, equitable, and community-driven approaches to decision-making, particularly in areas such as urban planning, policy development, and governance. It seeks to challenge power structures, amplify marginalized voices, and ensure diverse perspectives shape outcomes that affect everyone.
Encountering Patriarchal Urban Planning
Encountering Patriarchal Urban Planning
Encountering Patriarchal Urban Planning
Patriarchal urban planning reflects the biases, priorities, and power dynamics of societies where men’s needs and experiences are often prioritized. This is evident in how cities are designed, maintained, and policed, frequently marginalizing women and other vulnerable groups
City Branding from A Feminist Perspective
Feminist Participation
Feminist Participation
Feminist Participation
A city’s brand should not just be about its visual identity or slogans; it should reflect a commitment to inclusivity and participatory urban development. Feminist placemaking ensures that cities are designed for all, addressing issues like gendered safety, accessibility, mobility, and representation in public spaces.
Inclsive City Branding
Feminist Participation
Feminist Participation
For city branding to be truly inclusive, it must be shaped by collaborative, bottom-up processes that amplify the voices of those often excluded from urban decision-making. Instead of reinforcing dominant narratives, cities must redefine identity through intersectional, people-centered storytelling, ensuring that branding efforts do not just market inclusivity but actively build it into the urban fabric.
Collective Identity
Feminist Participation
Collective Identity
City branding is more than just designing a logo, it is an opportunity to co-create an inclusive identity that reflects the diverse voices and lived experiences of all residents. From a feminist placemaking perspective, branding should be a participatory process that actively involves women, marginalized communities, and underrepresented groups, ensuring their perspectives shape the city's narrative
