Transdisciplinary methodology with a gender perspective applied to urban regeneration:

About tourist cities

Abstract

At a time of profound social, cultural, political and technological change, new protagonists appear in a scenario that in turn is changing at full speed and that announces a proven reality: the methods of planning and planning in the architectural discipline do not have the capacity to give response to the problems of a diverse, complex territory and in a profound process of mutation. It is time to interpret (and adapt) the realities with which we live, building or trying to build a more just society. This article proposes a review of those work dynamics outlined by architecture in the face of new teaching, learning and action methodologies, where the social fabric is affected as part of the urban renewal process. In this discourse it is important to have references, reviews and models capable of providing tools to work with current urban contexts. As a consequence, the critical judgment wielded from the experience and prominence of women draws new ideas of the city, converted into catalysts for aspects such as safety or care. At the same time, participatory processes become especially important, converted into legitimation tools, applied with total urgency and necessity, to the touristic city, currently in crisis and deep debate. The urgent need to change the inherited model thus causes the introduction of a variable that has been absent up to now, but which becomes totally essential to attend to the process with a predominant assessment of the so-called "affective turn" in the design of the habitable city, and to understand how (bodily) experience is connected to public life, and vice versa.