gender mainstreaming

Cartoon_How to Design a Fair Shared City? in Russian and Kazakh language

Cartoon_How to Design a Fair Shared City? in Russian and Kazakh language

On April 26 2019 in Almaty, Urban Forum Kazakhstan introduced the translation of the Kazakh language into the book "How to Design a Fair Shared City?" and met with the editor of the book. The work of the Czechoslovakia based urbanist Milota Sidorova is based on comic-book stories following needs of diverse city's inhabitants that are not always taken into account when designing streets and sites in the city. Urban Forum Kazakhstan has invited Milota to launch the book that was translated into Kazakh (by Erter Orazay) to Kazakhstan to introduce also her works and perspectives on public space to local readers. Presentation of this book was organized by WPS Prague and Almaty's Landstudio Architecture Bureau.

Article_Women of the Dam: Stories and Questions of Nubian Displacement, Menatalla Ahmed Agha

Article_Women of the Dam: Stories and Questions of Nubian Displacement, Menatalla Ahmed Agha

Looking at the issue of Muslim displaced women as a displaced Muslim woman, I could relate to the struggle, and I could also refuse being framed in research as a passive factor, offering a new perspective on the issue. In our contemporary time, Islamophobia has become a recurrent phenomenon worldwide, in which a view of women as victimised is common; denying Muslim women the credit for their resistance and taking away the definition of their faith from them, while they as a subaltern can speak, build and resist.

Article_More Girls To Parks! Case Study of Einsiedler Park, Vienna, Milota Sidorova

Article_More Girls To Parks! Case Study of Einsiedler Park, Vienna, Milota Sidorova

Compared to boys, girls in the age of 9-12 years don‘t spend as much time in parks and on playgrounds. And while you may have the memory of boys actively playing football all around, girls are really missing. Girls like to chat and spend the time indoors, some explain. Well, you don‘t feel that quite a sufficient explanation even you, yourself not being a gender studies expert.

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Lecture_Fair Shared Cities: Gender Mainstreaming Towards More Equitable Cities

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Lecture_Fair Shared Cities: Gender Mainstreaming Towards More Equitable Cities

Where and why women do not feel safe after dark? How difficult can become a normal transition of the road for the elderly? The lecture is devoted to the idea of the city, which is fair for all: this idea brings together visible examples from more than 60 pilot projects of various scale, aimed at improving the quality of life of marginalized groups in Vienna. We'll talk about the different awareness of the urban environment of users, their needs, and, as a result, the implementation of this knowledge in decision-making.