15th Conference of the European Association of Urban History

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‘At home outside. Contributions of women to outdoor space design of Dutch post-war housing districts’.

This paper explores the input of women in the design process of urban green structures in post-war housing districts in The Netherlands. We focus on how they were built, used and experienced and how the pressure of women (organizations) led to new paradigms in design. As a reaction to what was experienced as technocratic, top-down ways of designing and planning, there was an increasing attention for different types of users of urban green structure design since the 1950s, leading to active involvement in the 1970s. A historically sound understanding of the design and development of these housing districts requires not only design analysis (space and matter), but also the involvement of user perspectives and of the arenas in which design decisions were taken. In particular, we will raise questions about the female perspective on the relationship between private and public living environments, and the creation of space for children’s play and development in the Buitenhof district in Delft.

Period	2 Sept 2022
Event type	Conference
Location	Antwerp, BelgiumShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International