Women, LGBTQ+, people from the ages over 65+
The Everyday Life Generators Map is a special tool designed with a gender perspective to help young women navigate and engage with their urban environments. It identifies elements that generate everyday life and provides insights into spaces that contribute to various aspects of women's lives. This map is aimed at empowering young women to explore and make the most of their surroundings.
The map highlights the productive or reproductive activities that are taking place, the elements that foster everyday experiences, such as places to sit and rest, pleasant spaces, areas for play, spaces for care, observation spots, and ground floor spaces that encourage interaction. It also includes essential facilities like bus stops and basic amenities such as public toilets and drinking fountains.
The Place Identity and Symbolism Map of a public space is a “live map” which allows us to understand what differentiates our public space from others. This tool focuses on understanding the gendered dynamics and experiences within the space. It emphasizes the representation and symbolism of women, aiming to uncover how gender influences the identity and experiences within the space in symbolic elements, and the extent to which decision-making processes consider gender perspectives.
The elements that form that place-identity map can be related to the visual representation in public art, the symbolic significance in public space, the historical narratives and stories, and the community engagement and women’s participation in decision-making processes.
The exploratory walks are a methodology of participatory research that provides us with rich data about our everyday and every night experiences in the city. During the exploratory walks, we provide the tools for the participants to map the routes they take and the public spaces they use in their day/nightlife in their city. Using specific urban quality indicators (i.e., security, accessibility, vitality, urban infrastructure, gender representation), we record their experiences, needs, and desires from the public space. At the end of the walks we gather the input on a report and promote it to local stakeholders (esp. Municipality).
Approximately 12 hours:
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Via an exploratory walk we can:
<aside> ⭐ Gain a deeper and more holistic understanding of the needs and desires of the different people that use the spaces,
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<aside> ⭐ Understand the diverse ways of living in the cities
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<aside> ⭐ Highlight the diversity of the everyday/night life of the people
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Keep in mind that this activity is better to be used as a step towards a change, not only to write down the results, because this will create disappointment to the participants.