And suddenly, in 2022, we realized we live in a sexist city! 42 years after Dolores Hayden’s seminal text “What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work” we still haven’t implemented the necessary measures to provide a diverse and gender-neutral city.
We do not even know what makes a city sexist or non-sexist. Departing from our insight how clueless we are, the 2022 Civic Design Conference “The Non-Sexist City” wants to explore the principles and mechanisms of the Sexist and the Non-Sexist City alike. We want to learn about the historic and contemporary discourse on this subject and establish a vibrant discussion on these issues in our program.
What are the procedural and spatial manifestations of the Sexist/Non-Sexist City, where exactly can the hidden or open structures of oppression be modified, altered, inhibited, revolutionized, or stopped? From the political to the mundane, between the public and the private, the individual and the collective, across all scales, we need to examine the phenomena.
