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Gender mainstreaming can play an important role in advancing more equitable metropolitan regions but planning authorities have traditionally overlooked important aspects of equality between women and men in urban space. While pioneering research on women in cities and planning originated in US universities, some European countries and international organizations are beginning to move from research to implementation. In Spain, for example, new legal requirement asking for explicit assessment of gender equity impacts of plans are driving new experimental initiatives.
These policies help close longstanding gaps in the time, effort, and inconvenience that women face in their daily lives. The UNESCO Chair on Gender at the Planning Department of Madrid School of Architecture has played a key role in this process, both in terms research and implementation The lecture will show the pioneering work of the UNESCO Chair, demonstrating twenty-five years of research and implementation of gender in urban planning and architecture in Spain spearheaded from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. It will focus on the concepts “mobility of care” and “urbanism of care” developed in the early 2000’s by Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, today widely used by policy makers and researchers across the globe, and move on to show an overview of plans, projects, and initiatives, which, as a whole, provide an understanding of the state of the art in practice and policy implementation, the possibilities for action, the challenges, as well as the opportunities.
Speaker: Inés Sánchez de Madariaga (RCCHU Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)
Sponsor: RCCHU; UPM; Harvard University