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? Lay 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, young man hailing from a dominant caste and religion.
Public space design and its access are not gender-neutral. It is consciously meant for able-bodied, upper caste, young cis-gendered men, who feel free, powerful and in control of these spaces.
City for all? it’s a project designed to question this design, planning and architecture of cities and built spaces, and our interaction with it, which seeks to disadvantage women, queer folks and the marginalized.
The project will travel across 36 diverse neighbourhoods across 6 cities in India in order to map the communities’ response to their immediate public spaces. Every map will bring out city-level patterns on how we use our public spaces based on our gender, age and abilities as well as the local diversity of economic background, class and caste.
A final exhibition will showcase the maps, with discourses, dialogues, public debates and curated walks in each city attempting to give visibility to a much-needed question: who builds our cities, and for whom?
| City | Date |
|---|---|
| Jaipur | 28 Mar – 3 Apr |
| Chandigarh | 4 Apr – 10 Apr |
| Ahmedabad | 11 Apr – 17 Apr |
| Pune | 18 Apr – 24 Apr |
| Bengaluru | 25 Apr – 1 May |
| Delhi | 2 May – 8 May |