Description
The second edition of the BK Talks, co-organised with BK’s Diversity Officer Roberto Rocco, explored 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.
Acknowledging that a child, an adolescent, a homosexual, an immigrant, an older person, people with disabilities, etc., must be able to fully exercise their ‘right to the city’, the panel, moderated by Dr. Caroline Newton, aimed to seek some answers about the role of ‘other’ perspectives within design professions and the spatial consequences of these notions.
| Periode | 22-sep.-2022 |
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| Gehouden op | Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
| Mate van erkenning | National |