Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities

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.

• Designing gender-sensitive spaces for consenting cities: An overviewPART ONE: Designing approachesIntroduction: Designing approaches1. In search of a method that works: the story of the gendered landscape of Umeå 2. To go for a walk alone and be a woman3. Designing gender-responsive housing/home: a feminist exploration4. A super-duper wicked problem: expanding intersectional climate adaptation5. Data design and dissemination: visualising gender inequality statistics for public audiencesPART TWO: Making material changesIntroduction: Making material changes6. Kitchen Revolutions7. Shared reading and place-making in the rural Australian city: mediating climate crisis, marginality and gendered experience through collective reading practices8. Institutionalising Pride: the rise of the Pride Centre in Melbourne9. Engendering justice: on (in)visibilities of penal design, aestheticization of punishment and space of solidarity10. Making room for the unexpected: street sex work and the indecorous city11. Developing advocacy: insights from gender-sensitive placemaking training in the public sectorPART THREE: The possibilities of nightIntroduction: The possibilities of night12. Untangling the relationship of fear, safety and accessibility in night-time Kolkata13. Feminist urban planning through community action and transformation: the case of Nocturnas14. Reclaim the night: women walk to reimagine nightlife15. Pride of place: (re)imagining a queer Sydney during WorldPridePART FOUR: Infrastructures of careIntroduction: Infrastructures of care16. Feminist criteria for territorialising the caring city17. Rethinking spatial analysis and analytics: Native, Black and Latina/x feminist theories and methods for engagement, equity and justice18. Eco-Feminist co-housing: a design approach19. How it started/how it’s going: real-time reflections* on a queer research practice