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A Psychogeographical Analysis of Women Walking: The In-between

Part 2 Dissertation 2020
Philippa Humphries
Manchester School of Architecture Manchester | UK
‘What’s your experience?’… Is the pioneering question that the @genderstepgap Instagram account poses to its following of pedestrian gladiators. This has been designed to kickstart a whistleblowing exchange; one where survival stories and coping mechanisms are shared between urbanites in an intentional act to reassemble public perception around the female walking experience. Through this celebration of sexual difference, the burden of public safety that women carry can be redistributed across various bodies of responsibility within the built environment. By using social media as a tool to create a contemporary network for fieldwork investigation, an inclusivity dialogue is facilitated that bridges the voice of otherness with the British Standards.

This dissertation uses feminist methodology techniques to problematise and critique embedded architectural practices and decode hidden power relations within the city. In an architectural sense, gathering information from those whom have been systematically ignored only provides a greater breadth of knowledge of which to draw from through design. Throughout this work, I explore mechanisms of designing to reduce the margins of exclusion using a phased and mixed methods approach. This culminates in a series of speculative spaces, of which are curated by those willing to share their experiences..


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Cagri Sanliturk
2020
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