Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities Practices and Provocations

Designing gender-sensitive spaces for consenting cities: An overview

Jess Berry with Nicole Kalms, Timothy Moore and Gene Bawden

PART ONE: Designing approaches

Introduction: Designing approaches

Gene Bawden

1. In search of a method that works: the story of the gendered landscape of Umeå 

Linda Gustafsson and Annika Dalén

2. To go for a walk alone and be a woman

Gill Matthewson

3. Designing gender-responsive housing/home: a feminist exploration

Ashraful Alam, Md Saydur Rahman Lushan and Momtaj Bintay Khalil

4. A super-duper wicked problem: expanding intersectional climate adaptation

Anwyn Hocking

5. Data design and dissemination: visualising gender inequality statistics for public audiences

Gene Bawden, Nicole Kalms and Isabella Webb

PART TWO: Making material changes

Introduction: Making material changes

Timothy Moore

6. Kitchen Revolutions

Merve Bedir

7. Shared reading and place-making in the rural Australian city: mediating climate crisis, marginality and gendered experience through collective reading practices

Emily Potter and Brigid Magner

8. Institutionalising Pride: the rise of the Pride Centre in Melbourne

Timothy Moore

9. Engendering justice: on (in)visibilities of penal design, aestheticization of punishment and space of solidarity

Ece Canlı

10. Making room for the unexpected: street sex work and the indecorous city

Serena Olcuire

11. Developing advocacy: insights from gender-sensitive placemaking training in the public sector

Isabella Webb, Nicole Kalms and Gill Matthewson

PART THREE: The possibilities of night

Introduction: The possibilities of night

Jess Berry

12. Untangling the relationship of fear, safety and accessibility in night-time Kolkata

Ritwika Biswas

13. Feminist urban planning through community action and transformation: the case of Nocturnas

Sara Ortiz Escalante with Col·lectiu Punt

14. Reclaim the night: women walk to reimagine nightlife

Florencia Andreola, Azzurra Muzzonigro and Laura Da Re

15. Pride of place: (re)imagining a queer Sydney during WorldPride

Nicholas McGuigan and Jess Berry

PART FOUR: Infrastructures of care

Introduction: Infrastructures of care

Nicole Kalms

16. Feminist criteria for territorialising the caring city

Blanca Valdivia

17. Rethinking spatial analysis and analytics: Native, Black and Latina/x feminist theories and methods for engagement, equity and justice

Elizabeth L. Sweet

18. Eco-Feminist co-housing: a design approach

Frankie Logan and Agustina Martire

19. How it started/how it’s going: real-time reflections* on a queer research practice

A.L Hu

Biography

Jess Berry is a design historian and an associate professor at Monash University. She is a senior researcher at the XYX Lab, where her research focuses on gendered spatial practices. Her research explores how gender identities are articulated and mediated through, and by, fashion, architecture, and interior design in cities.

Nicole Kalms is a professor in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture and founding director of the Monash University XYX Lab, which leads national and international research in gender and place. The innovation of Kalms’ research is the examination of digital, experiential, political, and material interventions collated to articulate both the shared and conflicted struggles of women and girls internationally. Her praxis repositions design as a strategic tool for challenging gender inequity. Her recent research has focused on public transport spaces for women and girls, gender-sensitive CPTED, and the use of participatory co-design to challenge gender-neutral urban policy.

Timothy Moore is a founder of Sibling Architecture, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Monash University, and the Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the National Gallery of Victoria. As a researcher within XYX Lab, he looks at the relationship between gender, sexual identity, equity, and architecture.

Gene Bawden is a communication designer and the head of Monash University’s Design Department. His research interrogates the design of Australian domestic spaces constructed as a prescriptive but highly charged representation of cultural belonging, social alignment, and gendered expectation. Gene combines his knowledge of gendered spatial practices and his communication design expertise within collaborative research projects.