Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities. Practices and Provocations.

Join us for the launch of Monash University XYX Lab’s second edited collection of works that investigate gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment. The book is part of the Routledge Gender, Bodies and Transformation series.

Designing Gender Sensitive Spaces for Consenting Cities: Practices and Provocations centres intersectional, gender-sensitive approaches to design in the urban environment as an integral strategy in combating spatial inequities. Through an investigation of design-led methods, project case studies, activist interventions, and processes of resistance and agency, this volume offers new thinking and practical approaches to demonstrate how design might shift towards safer and more inclusive cities for women, gender-diverse people, and LGBTIQ+ communities.

This book will appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students of urbanism, design, planning, architecture, and geography, as well as government and non-profit organisations that are interested in gender and equality and can influence the future narratives of cities. Please join us to meet the editorial team, and take part in a panel discussion that will surface some of the key findings within the text.

You are invited to stay for light refreshments upon conclusion of the launch, as well as the launch of Decolonising and Indigenising Design, by Dr Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga, commencing at 5.30 pm. Please register for both events to help us track registrations.

Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.