Idea by
Lígia Oliveira
Call for ideas 2019
Songs to my mother
Songs to my mother
- Systemic changes
This work calls for gender issues to be part of our urban design practice. It aims to bring awareness to identity conceptualizations, women’s emotional landscapes, and how women experience life in cities. The material experience of urban life cannot be separated from our basic beliefs; thus, more than a certain architecture or design style, form or material, the awareness of social issues allows for a resistance against certain practices and becomes part of the solution. Critical thinking is called upon public space design for equality, safety accompanying the routines of daily life and in the acceptance of our inner atmospheres’ exploration in nature within urbanization. A significant part of women’s individual and collective struggle is held beyond close doors in spaces of intimacy; but its overcome is achieved by the whole society with a practice sustained in our daily lives outside buildings, through well design elements providing healthy social interactions to occur.
Songs to my mother
Songs to my mother
- Systemic changes
This work calls for gender issues to be part of our urban design practice. It aims to bring awareness to identity conceptualizations, women’s emotional landscapes, and how women experience life in cities. The material experience of urban life cannot be separated from our basic beliefs; thus, more than a certain architecture or design style, form or material, the awareness of social issues allows for a resistance against certain practices and becomes part of the solution. Critical thinking is called upon public space design for equality, safety accompanying the routines of daily life and in the acceptance of our inner atmospheres’ exploration in nature within urbanization. A significant part of women’s individual and collective struggle is held beyond close doors in spaces of intimacy; but its overcome is achieved by the whole society with a practice sustained in our daily lives outside buildings, through well design elements providing healthy social interactions to occur.