She Belongs To The Streets
Socio-political and economic research has long confirmed the livelihood of a woman to be subjected to an array of discrimination, harassment, and inequalities. So much so, much of the greater public consensus recognizes these gender-based human rights issues as 'just the way things are.' Stringing back to our primitive ancestors some 6 million years ago whose sexual dysmorphism was more distinguishable and the strength of both parties worked in tandem to enable evolutionary progression. In many early human groups, males positioned themselves in a hierarchy just above the female species, and while this order of the Earth proved to advance us from the savannahs to our modern urban jungles, influence of this antiquated primal system still run our streets wild.
The She Belongs To The Streets initiative set out to expose and challenge the social, political, and physical barriers of patriarchy on our built environment. To reconceptualises landscape that influences social change as much as social change influences it’s Landscape.
Site Analysis
Focused in Southwark which has the third highest volume of sexual offences by borough.
Tri-focused Solution Strategy
This urban design strategy plan aims to address and resolve the unequal freedom and safety women disproportionately face in public space while catalysing long-term solutions through a tri focused system of prevention education advocacy and policy change.
Research
Evidence has brought to light the profound effects of gender based harassment on women around the world and the limitations it imposes on their livelihood personal safety autonomy and freedom especially in the context of equal access to public space.
Interventions
Scenes
