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Crafting an Intersectional Gaze on Cities, and Three Other Reasons Why Urban Planning Needs Data Feminism

Urban Belonging Project's participatory analysis of Copenhagen's city-space.

March 21, 2023
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In 2022 Copenhagen Architecture Festival hosted the exhibition of the Urban Belonging Project, a partnership of researchers and planners affiliated to Aalborg University and the architecture studio Gehl People, who worked in collaboration with some of the key community organizations for LGBTQI+, deaf, physically disabled, mentally vulnerable, houseless, ethnically underrepresented and international people in Copenhagen.

Through the use of an app created ad-hoc, participants documented their relationship to the city, to its spaces and designs, allowing researchers to generate a number of graphic visualization of the areas that are more or less welcoming, accommodating, safe, accessible, inclusive and pleasant for different groups.

Read the full article by Sofie Burgos-Thorsen on ArchDaily to learn more about the Urban Belonging Project and all the advantages of using data-ethnography and visual methodologies to better understand the complexities of the city space from an intersectional perspective.

This article was written in the context of CAFx's Film Mosaic: Leave No One Behind project, which focuses on the intersection of inclusive design and film.
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Film Mosaic platform collects hundreds of short films from around the world that explore different dimensions of socially sustainable architecture.

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