Building Feminist Cities | An Intersectional Approach to Mobility • deBuren

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Onze steden, inclusief stations en mobiliteitsconcepten, zijn hoofdzakelijk ontworpen door en voor mannen. Er wordt weinig rekening gehouden met mensen met een handicap en met vrouwen, zowel in hun rol als moeder, werknemers of verzorgers. Vrouwen voelen zich vaak onveilig en vermijden specifieke routes, tijden en vervoerswijzen. Hoe zou een meer inclusieve stad en stedelijke mobiliteit eruit moeten zien?

Voertaal: Engels

In de week van Internationale Vrouwendag onderzoeken we hoe een meer inclusieve stad eruit zou kunnen zien. We beginnen met een lezing door geografe Leslie Kern (Feminist City), gevolgd door een panelgesprek met architecte Apolline Vranken, stedenbouwkundige Eva Kail en criticus & curator René Boer (Failed Architecture platform) onder leiding van Jana Kerremans.

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Meer over het programma

De Canadese geografe Leslie Kern geeft een lezing over intersectionaliteit en mobiliteit. In haar boek Feminist City, Claiming Space in a Man-made world legt Kern door middel van een historische blik en persoonlijke ervaringen uit dat sociale ongelijkheden zijn ingebouwd in onze steden: in de mobiliteitsconcepten, buurten en gebouwen. Kern geeft aan dat een feministische stad niet alleen door vrouwen wordt gedefinieerd en ontworpen. Het is een stad waar verschillen in geslacht, afkomst en fysieke beperkingen niet (meer) voor ongelijkheid zorgen en waar alle gebruikers zich veilig, gezien, begrepen en erkend voelen.

Na haar lezing gaat Jana Kerremans in gesprek met Leslie Kern, architecte Apolline Vranken, stedenbouwkundige Eva Kail en criticus & curator René Boer (Failed Architecture platform). Tijdens het gesprek zoomen we in op stedelijke projecten die een voorbeeld zijn en kijken we met een kritische blik naar Europese steden als Brussel, Wenen en Amsterdam.

Leslie Kern en Eva Kail sluiten online aan via een videogesprek.

Our cities in general, including stations and concepts on mobility, are often designed by men. There is little consideration for people with disabilities and women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets are at times a place of threat rather than community. But what would a more inclusive metropolis in general, and a station specifically, look like? A keynote by Leslie Kern, followed by a talk with Apolline Vranken, Eva Kail and Réne Boer. Moderator: Jana Kerremans.

Leslie Kern and Eva Kail will join via a video call.

Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of two books on gender and cities, including Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. Kern’s research has earned a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, and several national multi-year grants. She is also an award-winning teacher. Kern’s writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vox, Bloomberg CityLab, LitHub, and Refinery29. She is also an academic career coach, where she helps academics find meaning and joy in their work. Kern’s next book is Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies, forthcoming in September 2022.

Apolline Vranken studied architecture at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In 2014 she got involved in the Feminist Circle of the ULB. During her studies she was passionate about issues of urban equality. She investigates these subjects in her master thesis ‘From beguinages to feminist architecture’, published by the University of Women in 2018. She graduated in architecture in 2017. From 2018 till 2021 she worked as a project manager for the non-profit organization L'Ilot and as an architect. In 2018 she founded the platform L'architecture qui dégenre, to create awareness for the position of women and minorities in architecture, public space and art. With this platform she initiated the first Belgian Matrimony Days. Today, she is a FNRS PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture (ULB).

Eva Kail is one of the leading experts for Gender Planning in Europe. She works in the Competence Centre Overall Urban Planning, Smart City Strategy, Participation and Gender Planning of the City of Vienna. As an urban planner in the Executive Group for Construction and Technology, she coordinated about sixty pilot projects in the fields of housing, mobility, public space, urban development and social infrastructure.

René Boer (1986, he/him) works as a critic, curator and organizer in and beyond the fields of architecture, art, design and heritage. He is based between Amsterdam and Cairo and is a driving force behind the Failed Architecture platform. In recent years he developed a wide array of exhibitions, public programmes and research projects, often with a focus on spatial justice, urban imaginations and queer tactics. His current projects include Contemporary Commoning, an experimental exploration of the relation between art and (urban) commons; Terraforming Indonesia, a programme investigating and reimagining large-scale land reclamations in collaboration with the ruangruapa collective; and Smooth City, a forthcoming publication on the obsession with perfection in cities worldwide.

Jana Kerremans works as an independent host and moderator. Her background as a culture expert and previous work experiences in cultural participatory and cultural tourism projects, and as a business manager for non-profit organizations and museums, provide her with a valuable network, experience and knowledge. Her areas of expertise are literature, museology, social history, sustainable tourism, urbanism, feminism and gender.