WOMEN, CITY AND SOLIDARITY
8th,
9th and
10th of May 2003
Technical School of Architecture, Madrid
ORGANIZERS:
JUAN DE HERRERA INSTITUTE
MADRID POLITHECNICAL UNIVERSITY
WOMEN GENERAL DIRECTION of MADRID COMUNITY
WOMEN WHO BUILD
PROGRAMME
1ST DAY: OTHER
CITY IS POSSIBLE
-
A
city for all,
María Ángeles Durán, Sociology Professor, CSIC
- The
city
of desires,
Beatriz García Moreno, Architect, School of Arts Professor (Colombia)
- From
South to North: Cities
and
Enviroment
in Latin America and Spain,
Marta Román,
Geographer
- Planning
the city
under
gender perspective,
- Women
and visibility
- Porto
Alegre: Participative
budget, urban space
and women, Sara Barceló, Biologist &
Zainer Pimentel, Lawyer
- Other
city is possible, Cristina García-Rosales, Architect, Women Who
Build society
2ND
DAY: INHABITED AREAS, INHABITABLE PLACES?
-
Building
within the familiar and comunal heritage, María
Eugenia Hurtado, Architect, Mexico University Professor
- Designing shared
cities
in the global world,
- Mujefa:
A
cooperative for housing
in Montevideo,
- The
recovery of citizens' space:
Favela Barrio and
Río
Cidade
programmes
- Mental
health
and emmigration
in Lavapiés (Madrid)
- Human sites in Latin America
3RD DAY: WOMEN NETS
-
Desired, felt and lived city...
- Eskalera
Karakola: Mujeres Okupadas,
- E-leusis.net:
The City of the Ladies
There is a long distance between the city we live in and the city we dream of. This distance grows even longer in many Latin America cities and in many areas of our own ones, not as hidden as we may think, where globalization masks, while wipping out local culture, a different reality in which survival is a very difficult task. We cannot keep ignoring this reality in our opulent, consumist and squandering society.
Through the 6th Meeting in Architecture, following those which took place at Alcalá University during the last past years, we want women of both worlds to speak and to be listened. Women constructors, women town planners, women architects, women citizens, women promoters, women artists... Women who traditionally have taken part, in a solidaristic way at private ambits and now also do it in public fields, contributing with "another look", in the development and design of the nowadays city. We need to learn from each other in order to find solutions, to share experiences, to create links, to prove we are necessary... To demand a whole civil and civic existence for everyone, especially for the most unfavoured ones.
This SPRING COURSE is assigned to those who believe it is possible to build a new city and a new society model from utopy. We will try to show the true image, and not the "postcard image", of Spanish and Latin American cities, which are culturally and emotionally so close to each other, even though so distant in practice.
We desire to show the problems the magnitude of which makes impossible to number them. We want to find, by theoterical approaches and concrete examples in areas of cities such as Madrid, Sao Paolo, Montevideo, Bogotá, México DF, Sevilla, etc, new formulae and solutions, though some of them are developed in a small range of action, but can serve us as models because of their results. Solutions in which women are taking part as active protagonists whith their own capacities, including gender perspective.
Las but not least, we want to design this Encounter as a meeting place among civic & collective organizations , student and professional networks with the purpose of creating new strategies to solve the present problems, with the fundamental aim of designing a city without exclusions. We will divide the meeting in three days, each of them dedicated to a general topic (city, housing & networks), inviting important Spanish and Latin American professionals, who will show us the cities where they come from and how women's point of view is contributing to its design and management, through both the proposed ideas and practical cases.