Tincture November 12, 2019
BBC News had an article/video that asked the provocative question: What would a city designed by women be like? It focused on efforts in Barcelona, led by design group Punt 6, to address existing, if usually unintentional, design biases that favor men over women. The classic example, of course, are toilets, the design for which usually are focused more on numerical equality that equal availability or on who is more likely to have a stroller/diaper bag.
A similar article in The Guardian earlier this year focused on Vienna’s design efforts for more gender equality. Civic leaders there realized:
Vienna was being designed by male planners for men like them: going between home and work, by car...