unexpected communities:
questioning categories to create feminist cities
Technical Portfolio
Exploring city zoning and categorisation through inequalities and hierarchies to establish inclusive live-work environments built upon gendered requirements, facilitating systemic change to form safer and greener streets.
The types of spaces proposed include a series of terrace streets weaving in and around existing businesses on Penarth Road. The terraces involve live-work units encouraging entrepreneurial behaviour and SME’s, breaking down barriers that prevent minority groups being in employment or creating start-ups. Residential homes, rentable workspaces, training centres, and Es Co energy hubs are also proposed.
The wider site proposal includes a series of park spaces, linked by pedestrian pathways, celebrating past female industrial contributions as well as providing spaces that help to create unencumbered workers (a woodland school, an outdoors exercise space, an energy production park, a dairy farm, and a riverside campsite).
By creating public spaces that celebrate and educate us about our histories and the histories of others, we are able to live more successfully in the present (‘Queering Public Space’ by Dr. Ammar Azzouz and Prof. Pippa Catterall). The outdoor zones will encourage active travel, and safer and greener streets for all.