enGENDERING Urban Design: Exhibiting Gender and Participatory Design

2019

Authors:

Chelina Odbert, Ignacio Cardona; Deni López, Exhibition Curator

Contributors:

Olivia Hansberg Pastor; Angeliki Giannisi, Anne Stack, Carolyn Angius, Deni López, Evangeline Sheridan, Mark Bennett, Monica Miyagusuku, Loyiso Qaqane, Sudeshna Sen, Yuki Perry

Institutions:

Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Developed from the 2018 enGENDERING Urban Design studio, this exhibition transformed the studio’s work in La Favorita, Mendoza, into a platform for examining how gender, participation, and urban design intersect in self-produced environments. It presented student proposals alongside documentation of the interactions among students, instructors, community members, and local government that informed their development.

Rather than presenting design proposals as isolated outcomes, the exhibition made the collaborative production of urban knowledge visible. By foregrounding both projects and participatory processes, it examined how gendered spatial inequalities emerge through everyday experiences of access, mobility, safety, and care, while positioning exhibition as a medium for extending the studio’s research beyond the classroom.