Urban Intimacies: Unfolding reproductive labour and spatial agency in Marseille Part 2 Project 2025 Leah WalshEimear Aherne University College Cork | Ireland Amid increased violence against sex workers in France following the 2016 criminalisation of clients (Law No. 2016/144), Urban Intimacies reimagines reproductive labour in Marseille through four future-making interventions of care, shelter, memory, and dialogue - all conducted by an imagined utopian feminist collective - the Bricoleuses. Adopting Ruth Levitas’ concept of “Utopia as Method” – which implies acknowledging and incorporating diverse social, cultural, and ideological frameworks in collaborative future-making, the project proposes design-as-participatory-method. Reappropriating sites of gendered violence within Marseille’s Vieux Port, the new architectural imaginings stitch environments of empathetic dialogue within the city in the guise of sexual health clinic, communal childcare space, crisis accommodation, feminist archive, and a collective craft/making space.Grounded in ethnography and Julian Ballester’s film Rue Curiol - which traces the lives of Polynesian trans women - the project resists algorithmic datasets that intensify the precarity of communities excluded from political discourse. Confronting archetypes inscribed in Marseille’s built environment - notably the “Refuge of Repentant Girls” (1381–1794) - it works to unsettle persistent patriarchal systems. Operating across terrains - from intimate to urban - the interventions refigure civic typologies to the extent that gender and space radically reforms architecture towards new kinships and utopian mise en scène. Tutor(s) Lorenzo Cammoranesi Kieran Cremin Viktor Gekker Jason O'Shaughnessy