COL LECTIU PUNT6 punt6.wordpress.com www.punt6.net 933101655 c.blanqueria 9 local 2 08003 Barcelona Roser Casanovas Adriana Ciocoletto Marta Fonseca Blanca Gutiérrez Valdivia Zaida Muxí Sara Ortiz Escalante We are a diverse group of women architects, urban planners, and activists interested in rethinking cities, neighborhoods and architecture in order to eliminate gender discrimination. We work to build cities that reflect the diversity of our society by creating inclusive spaces. Col lectiu Punt 6 is an organization that works from a gender perspective, and seeks to account for women's everyday life experience. This vision, inclusive with the rest of our society, considers the participation as an essential instrument in projects and sustainability as basic criteria of development. The women of Col lectiu Punt 6 have different origins and vital experiences, and also have different academic background: architecture, urban planning, sociology and environmental studies. Areas of work of Col lectiu Punt 6: PARTICIPATION We foster public active participation, and in particular women s participation, because it is essential to analyze and highlight everyday life experiences in the urban environment. Association l Afer de la Dona, Els Pallaresos, Tarragona. Participatory workshop Women s experience in the built environment of Pallaresos as part of the research project: Regional rehabilitation: the transformation of suburbia. June 2012. Facilitators: Marta Fonseca and Sara Ortiz Escalante. Women s information center of the neighborhood of Les Corts, City of Barcelona. Participatory workshop Gender and urban planning with youth groups in the context of the March 8 th celebration. March 10, 2012. Facilitators: Adriana Ciocoletto, Roser Casanovas, Marta Fonseca and Sara Ortiz Escalante. 1
City of Castelldefels, Barcelona. Equity Departament. Participatory workshop The use of the public espace from the everyday life experiences as part of the Neighborhood Law project in the neighborhood of Vista Alegre, Castelldefels. March 2011. Workshops for the Women s Catalan Institute (ICD Institut Català de les Dones): Women s experiences in the everyday life. From 2005 to 2011. Workshops with women s groups in more than 80 municipalities of Catalonia. Facilitators: Adriana Ciocoletto, Marta Fonseca, Roser Casanovas and Zaida Muxí. City of Esparraguera, Barcelona. Gender equity policies Department. Participatory process to elaborate a gender audit, and urban planning criteria from a gender perspective, in the context of the Neighborhood law project of the neighborhood Mas d en Gall. 2009. City of Ripollet, Barcelona. Gender equity policies Department. Workshop to elaborate urban design criteria from a gender perspective for the Park May 1 st. December 2008. Facilitators: Adriana Ciocoletto and Marta Fonseca. City of Granollers, Barcelona. Gender equity policies Department. Workshop Women work together to elaborate a gender audit in the context of the Neighborhood Law project of El Congost. June 23, 2007. Facilitators: Zaida Muxí, Adriana Ciocoletto, Roser Casanovas, Marta Fonseca, Ximena Covaleda and Luciana Tessio. Workshops for the Barcelona Regional Government (Diputació de Barcelona DIBA): Gender and Urban planning: the use of the city from women s experiences Since 2007. Facilitators: Adriana Ciocoletto, Ana Paricio, Marta Fonseca and Zaida Muxí. Workshops for the Barcelona Regional Government (Diputació de Barcelona DIBA): Gender and Urban Planning: Women and Public space Since 2007. Facilitators: Adriana Ciocoletto, Ana Paricio, Marta Fonseca, Roser Casanovas and Zaida Muxí. Women s council of the Sants Montjuic district, Barcelona. Gender and urban planning. The use of a gender perspective when auditing the public space. Five work sessions, walks and workshops, June 16, 19 and 27, October 9 and November 15, 2006. Facilitators: Zaida Muxí and Roser Casanovas. TRAINING: We conduct training programs and workshops with government leaders, policy makers, and city planners about the benefits of including a gender perspective in architecture and urban planning. We disseminate and support the Law for Neighborhood Improvement (2004), the first law in Spain that explicitly requires planning from a gender perspective. Col lectiu Punt 6 has developed tools for municipal governments to implement and comply with this innovative regulation. Training in the academic field: Class at the Master on International cooperation in sustainable emergencies. Participation, urban planning and gender. International University of Barcelona. Instructors: Adriana Ciocoletto and Sara Ortiz Escalante. Barcelona, June 2012. Organization of the conference on Urban Studies, Gender and Feminism: Theories and experiences, Col lectiu Punt 6 Women s Catalan Institute Catalan Polytechnic University. Coordinated by Adriana Ciocoletto and Blanca G. Valdivia. Barcelona, October 2011. PhD Course; Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Catalan Polytechnic University (UPC) Gender and urban planning: theory and practice. Instructor: Zaida Muxí. School years 2007 08, 2008 09, 2009 10, 2010 11, 2011 12, and 2012 2013. 2
Workshop The house without gender developed for the first time at the Conference on Gender and Urban Planning: A needed vision for all. Regional Government of Barcelona (DIBA) 2005. Facilitator: Zaida Muxí; and after, at the elective course of the School of Architecture in Valencia. 2006. Facilitators: Roser Casanovas, Adriana Ciocoletto, Marta Fonseca, Zaida Muxí. Since school year 2005 2006 at the Master Housing Lab of the XXI century. UPC Catalan Polytechnic Foundation. Facilitators: Roser Casanovas, Adriana Ciocoletto, Marta Fonseca, Zaida Muxí. Master Housing Lab of the XXI century. Since school year 2005 06 (8 editions completed). UPC. Co director: Zaida Muxí. Course Planning cities through women s eyes. Gender and urban planning: theory and practice. University of Costa Rica, School of Architecture. June 2008. Instructor: Zaida Muxí. Seminar at the IX Biennale of Architecture and Urban Planning. Other ways to build cities: alternatives to globalization. Gender, participation and sustainability, at the International University Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Julio 23 27, 2007. Director: Zaida Muxí Training for the public administration: - Course: Introduction to urban planning from a gender perspective. Training for public administration staff. City of Viladecans, Barcelona. October, 21 and 28 and November 4, 2011. - Course: Introduction to urban planning from a gender perspective. Training for public administration staff. City of Olot, Girona. December 18, 2009 and January 12, 2010. - Course: Introduction to urban planning from a gender perspective. Training for public administration staff. City of Figueres, Girona. November 25 and December 2, 2009. - Technical advice on Gender and Urban Planning for public administration employees of institutions using participatory processes in urban planning. City of San José, Costa Rica, June 27, 2008. - Training of trainers to facilitate participatory workshops The forbidden and the desired city. Women s Information Center, City of Manresa, Women s Program. November 2008. - Seminar on Gender and Urban Planning. Design of contents, exhibition, and workshop. City of Reus, Gender Equity Program, November 6, 2008. - New approaches for inclusive urban planning: Gender and public participation. Workshop and conference presentation. City of Bilbao, October 30 and 31, 2008. - Course: Planning cities from women s eyes: Gender and urban planning School of Women. Regional Government of Barcelona (DIBA). Since 2007. - Course Gender and urban planning. School of Public Administration of Catalonia. Barcelona 2007. RESEARCH: We conduct feminist research on the intersection of gender and urban planning. We have conducted research on housing, women s safety, women s history in architecture, participatory methodologies, among other topics. - Research project: Regional rehabilitation: the transformation of suburbia. Funding institution: RECERCAIXA Program 2010 of La Caixa Foundation. Principal Investigadora principal: Zaida Muxí Martínez. Institution: Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Department: School of Architecture of 3
Barcelona ETSAB. Researchers Punt 6: Blanca G. Valdivia, Adriana Ciocoletto, Marta Fonseca, Roser Casanovas and Sara Ortiz Escalante. - Research with the Catalan Institute of Women ICD and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC: Urban indicators to evaluate everyday life spaces from a gender perspective. 2010 2011. Researchers: Blanca G. Valdivia and Adriana Ciocoletto. - Research with the Catalan Institute of Women ICD: Indicators of urban quality of life. Women and men everyday life in the urban environment. 2010 2011. Researcher: Blanca G. Valdivia. - Research with the Catalan Institute of Women ICD: Women experiences in the everyday life urban environment: systematization of the information accumulated from the women s workshops of the ICD. 2010 2011. Researchers: Marta Fonseca and Roser Casanovas. - Collaboration in the project: Migration, housing and the city: urban, housing and access to housing conditions. Funding institution: Ministry of Education and Science. Reference: CSO2008 04337/SOCI. Principal investigator: Pilar García Almirall. Institution: Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Department: School of Architecture of Barcelona, Center of Land policy. - Research with the Catalan Institute of Women ICD: Recommendations to implement gender equity policies in urban planning. 2006 2007. - Research with the Regional Government of Barcelona (DIBA): The possible and desired city for women: urban planning and design from a gender perspective. 2007. - Research with the Catalan Institute of Women ICD: Domestic space: proposals to analyze nonsexist and non hierarchic spaces. 2005. - Research with the Catalan Institute of Women ICD: Gender criteria for housing design. Recommendations for non sexist and non hierarchic domestic space. 2004. VINDICATION OF WOMEN S RIGHTS We vindicate women s rights to the city, give visibility to women s contributions in the construction of our cities, and foster activism with grassroots groups at the community and neighborhood level. - Coordination of the Second Jane s Walk Barcelona, in the neighborhood of Nou Barris. Part of the International Jane s Walks Initiative. Barcelona, May 2012. - Participation in the walk Let s take back Les Rambles. Organized by Urban Actions Collective. Barcelona, november 2011. - Coordination of the Walk in the everyday life of the neighborhood of Nou Barris. Part of the activities of Open House 11. Barcelona, October 2011. - Coordination in partnership with the Neighborhood association of Gòtic, Barcelona the Walk in the everyday life of the neighborhood of Gòtic. Part of the activities of Festival Llimonades 10 organized by Community Center Pati Llimona. Barcelona, July 2011. - Coordination of the First Jane s Walk Barcelona, in the neighborhood of Santa Caterina. Part of the International Jane s Walks Initiative. Barcelona, May 2011. - Coordination of the Walk in the urban space: Ciutat Meridiana Torre Baró. Part of the elective course Walks in Barcelona School of Architecture of Barcelona. Barcelona, March 2011. - Coordination of the Walk in public laundry sites from the everyday experience. MIAU, International Exhibition of Urban Art. Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, September 2010. 4
- Coordination of the Walk in the public space: Casco Antiguo Barcelona. FEM ART 2010, organized by women s network Ca la dona. Barcelona, May 2010. - Coordination of the Walk in the public space: University Campus. March 8 th activity at the School of Architecture of Barcelona. Barcelona, March 2010. - Coordination of the Walk in the public space: Neighborhood of Besòs and Fòrum. With the collaboration of the women s network Ca la dona. II Congress of Women of Barcelona, October 2009. CONSULTING We contribute to urban projects from a gender perspective through participatory processes, from the diagnosis to the evaluation. We participate in the interdisciplinary discourse that cities build today. - Recommendations for the implementation of a gender perspective in urban projects. City of Gavà. 2010 - Evaluation of the support and shelters network for women survivors of gender violence. Audit of facilities and improvements proposal. Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). 2008. - Criteria for new spaces for women s prison. Participatory workshop on prison spaces for women. Catalan Institute of Women ICD and Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). July 2005. COOPERATION We collaborate with other organizations within Spain and internationally. We foster networking and exchange between women's organizations. - Invited consultant at Women and Land Rights (CWLR) to draft research proposals on the role of women in new development plans of cities. Conceptualization of the Women Resources Zone. In collaboration with Sathi all partnerships (SAFP). New Delhi, India. Since 2009. - Sara Ortiz Escalante, member of the International Advisory Council of Women in Cities International (WICI). Since 2011. - Project Neighborhood improvement from everyday life experiences: diagnostic and participatory design from a gender perspective in the neighborhood of Villa Jardín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In collaboration with the women s group Las Juanas. Since 2011. Other areas to highlight: ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS - Proposal Generating everyday life for the International Competition of ideas for urban environment with a gender perspective, organized by the Regional Government of Cádiz Diputación de Cádiz. March April 2011. - Imagine Velluters Weaving networks. Proposal for the use of empty lots within the neighborhood of Velluters through people s experience and everyday needs with a gender perspective. Valencia, 2010. 5
PUBLICATIONS - Chapter Building safe environments from a gender perspective in NO SURTIS SOLA. Espais públics segurs amb perspectiva de gènere (Don t go alone. Safe public spaces with a gender perspective). Catalan Institute of Social and Political Science (Autonomous University of Barcelona and Diputació de Barcelona) Barcelona, 2011. - Presentation of Zaida Muxí and Blanca G. Valdivia of the re edition of Muerte y Vida de las Grandes Ciudades de Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1ª edición 1961) Capitán Swing Libros, S.L., Madrid, May 2011. - Participation in the journal FEMINISMOS. La arquitectura y el urbanismo con perspectiva de género, (Feminisms. Architecture and urban planning with a gender perspective). Center of Women Studies of the University of Alicante, nº 17, June 2011, Alicante. Coordinator: María Elia Gutiérrez Mozo. 6