RECLAIMING URBAN TERRITORY

I have reinvented the women’s safety audit through a participatory narrative process, to investigate gendered perceptions of safety in urban spaces. Virtual spaces constructed using an interpretation of the narratives are created using narrative methodologies, exploring how intersectional identities claim territory. The virtual spaces form a methodological tool unlocking the potential of urban space through materiality driven interventions, to rewrite the narratives and reclaim urban territory. ‘How can the built environment reclaim ‘women’s right to the city?’ The aim of this project is to form a critique of the lack of acknowledgement for narrative in urban planning theories and processes. Utilising Oxford Roads multiple place identities to provide a template for urban transformative change, using active narrative design interventions, to be re-presented to the participatory group.