City For All? is a project meant to question the design, planning and architecture of cities and built spaces, and our interaction with it, which ends up putting women, queer folks and the marginalised at a disadvantage
City For All? is a project meant to question the design, planning and architecture of cities and built spaces, and our interaction with it, which ends up putting women, queer folks and the marginalized.
Our interaction with urban planning ends up putting women, queer folks and the marginalized at a disadvantage. City For All? will make you question the design, planning and architecture of cities and built spaces in India from the intersectional lens of gender, age, ability, class and caste.
Let’s take a quick quiz! Did you walk the streets past midnight? Sat at a roadside stall and had tea? Found a toilet to pee when you needed one? Took a bus without fear of harassment? Laid down in a park and took a nap?
If the majority of your answers are ‘yes’, there is a high chance you are an able-bodied cis-man hailing from a dominant caste and religion.
Public spaces and their access are not gender-neutral. Look around and you will realise that they are mostly occupied by fully grown, able-bodied, upper caste, young cis-gendered heterosexual men, who feel free, powerful and in control of these spaces.
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