BK Talks: PERSPECTIVES; Urbanisms of diversity

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Description

This BK Talks explores the wide variety of ways in which questioning traditional planning mobilises the uncommon prospects of the city, opening other possible urbanisms.

Back in the 60’s, Jane Jacobs already questioned, from the angle of the everyday, the absolute supremacy of the narrow view of the – mostly - heterosexual white male techies in charge of planning cities. Even today, people across the world, identifying beyond the binary notion of gender and sexuality are often limited to freely access and appropriate the city and feel a sense of belonging. At the same time, recent events across the United States and other countries have proved the links between urban planning, structural racism and social segregation. For its part, the physical form of patriarchal urbanism tends to perpetuate the tasks, stereotypes and roles attributed to women. In the meantime, colonially-rooted urban development across the planet keeps dismissing and ignoring the very concept of the ‘indigenous’…

And the list goes on.
Period22 Sept 2022
Event typeSeminar
LocationDelft, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of RecognitionLocal