Critical analysis with a feminist perspective and intersectionality of the project and construction of the Cañada Real Galiana Socio-Community Centre (2019) by Recetas Urbanas.

Abstract

Feminist urbanism is a critical discipline -it denounces the patriarchal and capitalist urban dynamics that displace women from the city- and productive discipline -it generates policies, designs and spaces that favour their participation and empowerment- whose objectives have been progressively broadened through the incorporation of other perspectives, such as intersectionality, which attend to the plurality of voices and experiences excluded from previous claims. To this end, interventions with a feminist perspective and intersectionality seek to generate participatory processes and appropriate urban spaces for segregated or invisible groups, with special attention to the collective dimension of care. Links have been observed between the objectives and strategies of Recetas Urbanas and the principles and methodology of feminist urbanism. The hypothesis is whether the project and the process of community building of the Socio-Community Centre, developed in the informal settlement of Cañada Real, converge with the assumptions and resources of intersectional feminist urbanism.

The methodology is a critical and qualitative analysis of the intervention based on three categories of study -Intervention objective, Intervention methodology, Intervention design- developed for evaluation in relation to feminist urbanism. The results reveal limitations in the project - the planning and design of the facility - and the construction process - the involvement of the community. The conclusion drawn is that the intervention implements, albeit with limitations, methodological and design strategies that resemble and converge with the objectives and methods of feminist urbanism with an intersectional perspective.