The Feminist Park Podcast – Un/Seen Spaces: Designing for Liberation!
Aug 18, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
The Feminine Gaze: Integrating Care into Territorial Design Season 2 Episode:17. August 18, 2026 Establishes theoretical foundations for gender-sensitive planning that views territory as…
So I want you to picture the sidewalk just outside your front door.
Or, you know, the transit stop you use to get to work.
Or maybe that public square downtown where you sometimes sit and eat lunch.
Have you ever stopped, like really stopped, and wondered exactly who those spaces were built for?
is such a massive question to start with.
Right.
And I don't mean the construction crews who poured the concrete or the politicians whose names are on the bronze plaques.
I mean, the the imaginary user living in the minds of the urban planners who drafted the blueprint,
the default citizen.
Yeah,
exactly.
Because mostly when we walk out into the world, we just accept the city as a given.
I mean, the roads run where they run.
The bus comes when the schedule says it comes.
The streetlights illuminate what they illuminate.
It feels like a natural landscape.
Almost like navigating a mountain pass or a riverbed.
Yeah.
But it is entirely artificial.
Every single curb height, every transit route, every placement of a bench is a result of a deliberate decision.
And today on this deep dive, we are asking a simple but deeply profound question.
What if those foundational decisions were made with the completely different set of human priorities?
It is a question that, frankly, completely rewrites your understanding of the built environment once you start pulling at the threads.
Oh, absolutely.
Because we have this tendency to assume neutrality in our concrete and our asphalt.
So I want you to picture the sidewalk just outside your front door.
Or, you know, the transit stop you use to get to work.
Or maybe that public square downtown where you sometimes sit and eat lunch.
Have you ever stopped, like really stopped, and wondered exactly who those spaces were built for?
is such a massive question to start with.
Right.
And I don't mean the construction crews who poured the concrete or the politicians whose names are on the bronze plaques.
I mean, the the imaginary user living in the minds of the urban planners who drafted the blueprint,
the default citizen.
Yeah,
exactly.
Because mostly when we walk out into the world, we just accept the city as a given.
I mean, the roads run where they run.
The bus comes when the schedule says it comes.
The streetlights illuminate what they illuminate.
It feels like a natural landscape.
Almost like navigating a mountain pass or a riverbed.
Yeah.
But it is entirely artificial.
Every single curb height, every transit route, every placement of a bench is a result of a deliberate decision.
And today on this deep dive, we are asking a simple but deeply profound question.
What if those foundational decisions were made with the completely different set of human priorities?
It is a question that, frankly, completely rewrites your understanding of the built environment once you start pulling at the threads.
Oh, absolutely.
Because we have this tendency to assume neutrality in our concrete and our asphalt.
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