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fem*MAP BERLIN. Feminist Spatial Systems for a non-sexist City. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-11708 City. a non-sexist for Spatial Systems BERLIN. Feminist fem*MAP CUD Work Reports No.1: CUD Work Juliana Garcia Leon, Jörn Gertenbach, Maximilian Hinz, Tildem Kirtak, Katrina Neelands Malinski, Natasha Nurul Annisa, Jessica Voth (TU Berlin), Peter Máthé, Anna Rodriguez Bisbicus, Lara Stöhlmacher (UDK Berlin) Julia Köpper, Dagmar Pelger, Martha Wegewitz Prof. Jörg Stollmann Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation, TU Berlin 2021 www.cud.tu-berlin.de In cooperation with Katharina Koch and Sylvia Sadzinski alpha nova & galerie futura www.galeriefutura.de Handdrawing, August 2020 members of the network. incidents are harmful. Gender-based violence is most visible The research zooms into three queer spaces located at in the public realm, but this investigation seeks to uncover 7/8 ASSESSMENTS 7/8 ASSESSMENTS REMEMBRANCE, Kottbusser Tor, each selected from a list of suggestions BAR / RESTAURANT COVERED SPACES MOVING the affects of violence against women in the home; domestic fem*MAP BERLIN 85 % Safety Perception 66 % Safety Perception provided during our initial survey. Using three different spaces - violence. In Germany, more than 80% of victims are women*. Südblock, Schokofabrik and Café Kotti - the different layers are ? A woman* could be assaulted in her home by a partner, REPRESENTA- analysed to understand how social and physical factors come ! TROUGH BERLIN roommate, or even a visitor. The incidents include assaults, FEMINIST SPATIAL together to create a space of empowerment. harassment, intimidation, you name it. Although these places are spatially fragmented, they are A feminist traffic turn Meanwhile, Berlin is currently in a housing crisis. In the past TION & POLITICS part of a very close and diverse network. This includes actors ten years, rents have more than doubled. The population is from different fields: political groups, festivals, magazines, 5/8 ASSESSMENTS A great amount of literature is provided on mobility and gender growing exponentially, estimated to pass the 4-million-mark performers and many more. External circumstances or DAYTIME USE PARK TAKE AWAY drawing out two disparate trends of thinking. While one focusses by 2025. The local government has taken steps to counter the SYSTEMS FOR A Critical feminist representation along the 60 % Unsafety Perception 100 % Unsafety Perception 80 % Safety Perception threats can also be adequately responded to as a community. on how mobility shapes gender, the other has examined how skyrocketing rental prices, including banning mega-landlords U1 in Berlin In this network not only feminist questions and problems are ! ! gender shapes mobility. and the recently introduced 5-year rental freeze. However, addressed, but also topics such as racism and classism. finding a home in Berlin is still extremely difficult. And it seems NON-SEXIST CITY A speculative view into a feminist future cityscape alongside Another point that creates a connection between the spaces is The mobility research studies that focus on the differences to be even harder for women*. In renting, one should consider Berlin’s U1 subway line: the code of conduct users of the spaces adhere to - sometimes between genders shows the very much simplified conclusion the price, location, size, etc. As a woman* an added factor to it is spatially manifested in form of a poster, sometimes there that women have a more vivid movement pattern with much consider is that of safety. The majority of ‘short-term’ rentals We enter the U1 at Warschauer Straße, heading to an Exhibition nce-11708 are social agreements that are reflected in the behaviour of the more steps in between, while men just move from home to work in Berlin consist of flat-shares of ‘WGs’. These are apartments What does a feminist appropriation of (urban) space mean 4/8 ASSESSMENTS at Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum in Charlottenburg. Passing by visitors. and back again. This pattern can for sure not unconditionally that are usually let by one main tenant, who then rents out the NICHES SHOPS for critical planning practice? What role do women* play in Skalitzer Straße, large murals show the faces of Berlin’s female 100 % Unsafety Perception 100 % Unsafety Perception be applied to all women in every society. We believe that various bedrooms to other sub-tenants. Financially, women* are mayors and we note that throughout the past ten years the office This above all demands openness and tolerance and often ? ! it is strongly connected to the personal circumstances and still earning much less than men, meaning that they may have architecture, planning and urban politics? was continuously held by women*. explicitly forbids anti-discriminatory behaviour of various kinds. additionally the unbalanced distribution of care work and to compromise on aspects of the apartment when renting. The As an example of how these social agreements can be expressed ! therefore the social roles ascribed by most societies and not the gender pay gap in Germany currently sits at a difference of 21%. At Kottbusser Tor, the loud speaker reminds us of the nearby spatially, gender neutral toilets can be mentioned here. On the biological gender. The rental crisis is pushing women to live in places that they ‘Museum of Intersectional Feminism’. Departing Gleisdreieck, social level, heteronormative gender roles are deconstructed, 3/8 ASSESSMENTS Most studies on mobility (and gender) are also not dealing with feel unsafe, too worried to leave because of how hard it is to find we spot the Pachamama Sculptures that have been erected PARKING LOTS ADVERTISEMENT TRAFFIC LIGHTS Confronted with questions raised in Julia Köpper, Martha Wegewitz, Dagmar Pelger, gender binarity is dissolved and space for different genders is 100 % Unsafety Perception 66 % Safety Perception 66 % Safety Perception the spatial transfer of the findings. We believe that there needs accommodation in the first place. Prof. Jörg Stollmann during the protests to prevent international investors from created. In the actual space, however, there is then a departure ! ! to be a shift to research agendas that also take geographic, the exhibition “A feminist perspective Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation, constructing a high rise complex next to Gleisdreieck-Park. from the traditional division of toilets into women and men, social and cultural but especially spatial context into account. What are the housing options for women* in Berlin? And if for Berlin today! [Reuschling 2017] TU Berlin 2021. At Kurfürstenstraße, the train descends underground and which means that gender neutral toilets are used. Simply put, how do women shape mobility spaces in Berlin you are unsafe at home, what can you do? Frauenhäuser are www.cud.tu-berlin.de activists enter the train, asking us to sign a petition in support of This example, which is also used in our case studies, is intended and how do mobility spaces in Berlin shape women’s mobility women*’s shelters that offer protection for those needing it. What could a non-sexist city look like? local sex workers. to illustrate that there is always an interaction between the behaviour? In 2019 a total of 729 places were available in six women*’s [Hayden 1982]” a research seminar and In cooperation with Katharina Koch & Sylvia Sadzinski, social and the physical layer and that both influence each other. refuges, as well as refuge apartments and second-level a one week mapping camp was held in alpha nova & galerie futura. Nollendorfplatz has not changed at all in the last years, however The network as well as the Code of Conduct are subject to In our Berlin-specific research we found a set of parameters apartments. They are now working intensively on “emergency www.galeriefutura.de at Wittenbergplatz we are happy to see beautiful sexism free constant negotiation processes and at the same time are that are worth looking at in greater depth. First, the distribution accommodation for women* affected by violence in the event summer 2020. Six artistic positions on advertisements from international fair trade fashion brands in continuously being expanded. Both are not tied to any specific of productive and reproductive work does play a role and that the needs cannot be met by the women*’s shelters,” writes feminist spaces, practices and visions in With support of Helle Panke e.V. - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung the train station. place, which means that they can be expanded or transferred to especially the connection of this topic with the configuration press spokesman Moritz Quiske. But these cannot meet the architecture and urban planning were Berlin, www.helle-panke.de any place at any time. of the direct living environment is very important. Second, demand. There seems to be an increasing number of self-made Soon it is time to get off. The loud speaker calls the name of multimodality and shared mobility are important trends that all-female* WGs. the starting point for applying spatial, the recently renamed ‘Uhlandstraße’, now referring to one Rowaa Ibrahim, Sebastian Georgescu, Katrina Neelands CAREWORK influence the opportunities for better mobility choices of The Seminar was organized in the frame of the exhibition analytical, artistic and social research “A feminist perspective for Berlin today! What could a non- of the most influential feminist artist of the 20th century: Malinski, Solveigh Paulus women. Third the safety of all kinds of mobility infrastructures Ekaterina Kropacheva, Feyza Sayman, Nikita Schweizer sexist city look like?” with Sarah Held, Elke Krasny & Sophie ‘Valie-Export-Straße! Last stop of the line! Please leave the from bike lanes to streetlights or public transport spaces seem Neighbourhood of Care DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IF YOU ARE NOT SAFE AT HOME HOUSING CHOICES IN BERLIN methods to develop several thematic (FOR WHATEVER REASON) train here!’ Up in the daylight, we cross the bike lane and are to have an enormous effect on how women move through Berlin.