The Feminist Park Podcast – Un/Seen Spaces: Designing for Liberation!

Against Artwashing: Artists in Solidarity with Housing Justice
Season 2 Episode:12. July 14, 2026
Exposes cultural co-optation in gentrification, guiding our commitment to authentic community arts partnerships that resist rather than enable displacement.
Summary: Investigates "artwashing" in Berlin, where developers use art to rebrand neighborhoods while planning the eventual eviction of communities.Connection: Rejects artwashing by paying local artists fairly and using cultural programming to support rather than undermine housing justice and tenant organizing.
Key Takeaways: • Real estate developers weaponize art and culture to facilitate gentrification• Artwashing represents profitable neoliberal urbanism that displaces communities• Artists face pressure to choose between co-optation and solidarity with housing justice• Artist-led resistance movements collaborating with housing activists offer alternatives• Cultural production can serve either capital accumulation or community empowerment
Keywords: Artwashing, Berlin, gentrification, real estate, resistance, urban geography.
Source: Artists and urban artwashing in 2020s Berlin: co-optation, gentrification, and resistance, Claudia Seldin
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.

Feminist Plazas: Co-Creating Gender-Just Public Squares
Season 2 Episode: 11. 
Provides models of feminist urban co-creation in Montreal and Montevideo, demonstrating how grassroots movements can transform public space through horizontal partnerships with municipalities.
Summary: Examines how feminist movements influenced urban planning to create gender-sensitive squares like Plaza las Pioneras.Connection: Implements horizontal governance where racialized and working-class women have decision-making power through feminist mapping and co-design workshops.
Key Takeaways: • Feminist urbanism requires securing the right to the gendered city• Social reproduction and safety must be prioritized over male-centered design• Horizontal partnerships between governments and feminist collectives enable transformative change• Visual storytelling and participatory methods preserve marginalized cultural knowledge• Collective sensemaking allows communities to resist external erasure of their narratives• Traditional knowledge systems maintained through craft and art require protection
Keywords: Visual storytelling, heritage mapping, weaving, participatory research, traditional knowledge.
Keywords: Feminist urbanism, public space, Montreal, Montevideo, gender equality, self-management.
Source: The creation of feminist urban public squares: The cases of Montreal and Montevideo, Charmain Levy and Sylvie Paré

Source: Visual Participatory Storytelling: An Art-Based Creative Mapping of Everyday Weaving Storylines, Meanings and Heritage, Muzeyi Yelyen and Godfred Amankwaa
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.

Care Blocks: Building Solidarity Through Public Care Infrastructure
Season 2 Episode:. 
Demonstrates how care infrastructure creates unexpected social networks, guiding our vision of parks as sites where care is collectivized and caregivers find mutual support.
Summary: Highlights Bogotá's "Care Blocks" and how public services foster support networks among women caregivers, challenging the privatization of labor.Connection: Features community kitchens, childcare areas, and tool libraries to transform care from an isolated domestic labor into a collective, visible practice.
Key Takeaways: • Care infrastructure builds social capital and transforms domestic isolation into collective solidarity• Institutional support catalyzes recognition of care as valuable labor• Public spaces function as essential "third places" providing social connection and wellbeing• Pandemic exposed significant spatial inequalities in access to caring infrastructures• Mundane social interactions in public spaces serve as essential scaffolds for community life• Care infrastructure creates unanticipated social networks among caregivers
Keywords: Care infrastructure, public space, pandemic, third places, Sydney, storying.

Keywords: Care Blocks, Bogotá, SIDICU, care infrastructure, social capital, unremunerated care.
Source: Care networks as unanticipated gains of local public policy, María José Álvarez-Rivadulla, Sebastián Orlando Espejo Fandiño, Friederike Fleischer, et al.

Source: Public spaces as infrastructures of care: mundane doings of/in ordinary places, Miriam Williams, Justine Lloyd, Harriet Narwal, et al.
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.

Green Pathways: Children's Right to Nature in Urban Design
Season 2 Episode:9. June 23, 2026
Centers children's environmental rights and development needs, informing our design of safe, green routes and biodiverse spaces accessible to all children regardless of neighborhood wealth.
Summary: Reveals inequalities in children's access to nature based on neighborhood wealth and advocates for "green walkability" metrics.Connection: Prioritizes safe, green pathways for school commutes and integrates nature into play areas, supporting both children's health and mothers' mobility.
Key Takeaways: • Children's nature exposure is determined by neighborhood layout and infrastructure• Planning must prioritize "green-walkable" school routes for healthy development• Urban nature is an essential service that must be accessible within 15 minutes• Socio-environmental inequalities are embedded in children's commute paths• Biodiversity access should be a key metric for child-friendly urban planning• Green walkability is a vital measure of urban social justice
Keywords: Greenery exposure, school commute, children, walkability, urban heterogeneity.
Keywords: 15-minute city, urban nature, biodiversity, children, environmental health.
Source: Resetting the clock by integrating urban nature and its biodiversity into the 15-minute city concept, Mojtaba Khanian et al.Keywords: School commute, environmental inequality, greenery, children, GIS.
Source: Exposure to greenery during children’s home–school walks: Socio-economic inequalities in alternative routes by Mojtaba Khanian et al.
Source: Urban heterogeneity of the trade-offs between exposure to greenery and walking distance in children’s routes by Mojtaba Khanian et al.
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.

Gardens of Belonging: How Green Spaces Heal Loneliness
Season 2 Episode:8. June 16, 2026
Demonstrates green spaces as vital social infrastructure combating isolation, guiding our design of parks that foster connection and collective belonging.
Summary: Establishes that parks serve as vital sites for social support and belonging, especially for marginalized communities facing discrimination elsewhere.Connection: Combats isolation (especially for migrant and elderly women) through seating circles, communal tables, and shared programming like language exchanges.
Key Takeaways: • Green spaces function as catalysts for social cohesion and public health• Nature access significantly mitigates loneliness in diverse communities• Environmental equity is inseparable from social well-being• Green spaces are landscapes of belonging where community ties form• Parks must be designed to facilitate social interaction, not just provide greenery
Keywords: Social cohesion, urban green space, public health, environmental equity, loneliness.
Source: The Dynamic Relationship between Social Cohesion and Urban Green Space in Diverse Communities, Viniece Jennings et al.
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.