A journey through living spaces:
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1: Popular Andalusian ceramics.
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2: SECURITY, Infant school,
Mataró. Architect: Rosa Clotet.
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3: SUSTAINABILITY, sea-front
project, Cádiz. J. Molino.
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4: ACCESSIBILITY, Northern
European city.
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5: Pastries (fragment),
Wayne Thiebaud.
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6: Still Life Resuscitating
(fragment), Remedios Varo.
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7: FLEXIBILITY, Public
library, Granada. Architect: C. Mostaza.
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8: EQUALITY, Sunday
Afternoon at Isle G. Latte . G. Seurat.
RECIPE FOR "MAINSTREAMING"
What spaces have been designed from the gender perspective?
(Idea
based on the recipe of the Italian group ARCI DONNA)
“The
city is an organised memory. Women are those forgotten by history.” (Annah
Arendt)
The
incorporation of women into working life is causing a radical change in the
conception of daily life throughout the world. The cities and spaces that we
live in are not ready to assume these changes.
Spaces
designed from a gender perpsective (“mainstreaming”) are those in which the
NEEDS OF EVERYONE living there are taken into account. It is essential for women
to take part and be able to fully express their goals in the organisation and
planning of the cities of the 21st century.
The
Ingredients for a new city, which is better than the current one, in which
all individuals enjoy the same opportunities:
–
EQUALITY- (mutual respect + affection
+ daily life + participation)
–
FLEXIBILITY- (contrasting opinions +
different needs)
–
SAFETY- (reflection+ education+
planning)
–
MOBILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY- (solidarity
+ tolerance +difference)
–
SUSTAINABILITY -(environment)
Preparation:
The ingredients are blended with
LOVE, mixed into the DOUGH and placed in the mould, YEAST is added and the
mixture is then cooked slowly.
The
DOUGH is
the desire for change, applying the “gender perspective”, the point of view
of the women and men active in the city’s policy-making and planning and the
CONSTRUCTION of living spaces.
The
YEAST
consists of the best practices, examples and positive actions that can provide
society with a more human dimension, which we all build together and the place
where we live.
Once
the dough has “risen”, it is removed from the oven and left to cool, adding
the ICING before serving.
The
ICING is
the revolution in the traditional idea of “taking power”; the birth of a
true democracy in which we all participate; the beginning of a new concept of the
CONSTRUCTION of our cities.