Through the eyes of an intersectional feminist | Wandelclub der Stadslezers

An intersectional feminist city walk designed for everyone!

It explores how different bodies move through urban spaces after dark and how power, visibility, and vulnerability shape those movements.

Walkers will take individual walks through certain routes in the city at night. During their walk, they create video or voice recordings reflecting on their experience. These recordings capture personal observations, emotions, and bodily responses: where they felt safe or exposed, how they adjusted their pace or route, how lighting, sound, surveillance, or the presence of others affected their movement. (more prompts to reflect on will be shared)

The project centers lived experience

Each recording is shaped by the walker's intersecting identities gender, race, disability, class, age, sexuality, and body type and how these influence their relationship to the city. Rather than aiming for a single narrative, the work gathers many perspectives, allowing differences and contradictions to coexist.

After the walk, collected video and voice recordings of individual walks that together reveal how the city is felt, negotiated, and imagined differently. We will listen and reflect together on whose bodies are centered in public space and how cities might be reimagined to support freedom of movement for all.

Read the article about a walk around Utrecht Centraal with Nourhan Bassam in the NRC here

About the Gendered City

The Gendered City is an urban design and consultancy firm based in Amsterdam, focused on shaping more inclusive cities through a gender-sensitive lens. Their work bridges urban planning and design with research-driven insights, advancing learning and practice around feminist urbanism. By centering diverse lived experiences, they aim to create safer, more equitable, and more responsive urban environments founded by the first-ever feminist urbanist Nourhan Bassam in 2019.

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