Dwelling in and moving through public space exposes an individual to sensory perceptions, emotions and the consequences of hierarchical governance structures, which constitute their experiential dimension. Gendered fear cannot be clearly attributed to individual objects in the streetscape, but is a norm rather than an individual, temporal and local anomaly. I am proposing a system of autoethnographic data collection through a booklet, with fear as its focal point, as well as a second volume providing a guideline to build up formal and non-formal languages to reconceive public space.

Architecture cannot be THE solution to solving gendered fear because educating individuals and addressing all kinds of systems that actively or passively other groups of people transcends its competencies. To assume the opposite is actually a counterproductive idealisation. Hence I would like my project to be viewed as a modest and realistic methodology and possibility for seeing the streetscape in a non-androcentric way - for re-designing it without jeopardising individual experiences and a complete overhaul of the existing. The aim is to visualise and acknowledge under-discussed experiences and to confront it with the existing framework of the urban in a fruitful manner.

2021

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