The Feminist Park Podcast – Un/Seen Spaces: Designing for Liberation!
Aug 4, 2026 · 57 min · 11 segments
Feminist Commons: Care, Autonomy, and Radical Alternatives Season 2 Episode:15. August 04, 2026 Provides models of feminist urban commons in Montevideo and Rome that prioritize care and mutual…
I want you to take a moment and just picture walking through the downtown core of your city, like really visualize it.
Yeah.
Picture the actual streets you walk down every day.
Right.
So you are walking past these massive glass fronted office buildings, maybe a manicured corporate plaza with, you know, a modern art sculpture.
Oh, and those really sleek backless benches.
Exactly.
The sleek benches.
Maybe there's a high end coffee shop right on the corner.
And on the surface, it all looks incredibly open.
Right.
It looks accessible.
Sure.
I mean, the sidewalks are wide.
Yeah, the sidewalks are wide.
The plazas don't have gates or fences.
But if you try to actually use that space for, well, anything other than just walking through or buying something, that illusion shatters immediately.
It really does.
It's almost instant.
Right.
Like try to lie down and take a nap on one of those sleek benches.
You'll immediately find it has this metal armrest bolted right in the middle.
Hostile architecture.
Exactly.
It's designed specifically to prevent you from resting.
I want you to take a moment and just picture walking through the downtown core of your city, like really visualize it.
Yeah.
Picture the actual streets you walk down every day.
Right.
So you are walking past these massive glass fronted office buildings, maybe a manicured corporate plaza with, you know, a modern art sculpture.
Oh, and those really sleek backless benches.
Exactly.
The sleek benches.
Maybe there's a high end coffee shop right on the corner.
And on the surface, it all looks incredibly open.
Right.
It looks accessible.
Sure.
I mean, the sidewalks are wide.
Yeah, the sidewalks are wide.
The plazas don't have gates or fences.
But if you try to actually use that space for, well, anything other than just walking through or buying something, that illusion shatters immediately.
It really does.
It's almost instant.
Right.
Like try to lie down and take a nap on one of those sleek benches.
You'll immediately find it has this metal armrest bolted right in the middle.
Hostile architecture.
Exactly.
It's designed specifically to prevent you from resting.
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