About

What is Feminist Spatial Practices?

This is a participatory space to highlight, promote, and share feminist practices in art, design, architecture, and activism. The project nurtures the diverse ways that creators work towards intersectional gender equity in the built environment, acknowledging and celebrating the different feminisms that have existed across geographies and time.

We consider 'spatial practices' broadly to include any creative work engaging with the built environment (art, design, performance, architecture, planning, writing, researching, curating, etc.). ‘Feminist’ here indicates practices that actively engage with themes of gender, sexuality, and social equity, including practitioners of any background or gender identification.

This platform is a medium for community-building, offering an index of global practices, as well as announcements of virtual and in-person events.

You can follow us on instagram @feminist_spatial_practices to see updates about upcoming events.

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What are our Core Values?

Bringing together feminist spatial practices from around the world

Celebrating the diversity of ways that feminism is practiced

Recognizing the complex and intersectional inequalities that exist due to hierarchies of power and privilege

Advocating for and with those most affected by hierarchies of power, including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities and practitioners

Welcoming people of any gender or sexual identity to engage with feminism and our community

Centering care, equity, and co-creation in spatial practices

Cultivating participatory and reciprocal practices in our organization and with our community

Team

2023-2024

COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP

Abriannah Aiken (Co-Chair)
Renske Maria van Dam (Co-Chair)
Bryony Roberts

CREATIVE OUTREACH WORKING GROUP

Ridhi Chopra (Co-Chair)
Amiti Singh (Co-Chair)
Defne Saysel
Abriannah Aiken

FUNDING WORKING GROUP

Bryony Roberts (Co-Chair)
Virginia Melnyk (Co-Chair)
Abriannah Aiken

WEB DESIGN WORKING GROUP

Ryan Brooke Thomas (Co-Chair)
Abriannah Aiken (Co-Chair)
Bryony Roberts (Co-Chair)
Bilge Bal
Layna Chen
Cynthia Deng
Elif Erez
Kari Roynesdal

PROCESS WORKING GROUP

Bryony Roberts (Co-Chair)
Lindsay Harkema
Ruo Jia

RESEARCH WORKING GROUP

Abriannah Aiken (Co-Chair)
Layna Chen (Co-Chair)
Santiago Alvarez (Co-Chair)
Elizabeth Cox

SPECIAL PROJECTS WORKING GROUP

Bryony Roberts (Co-Chair)
Abriannah Aiken (Co-Chair)
Katie Rotman
Elizabeth Cox
Layna Chen
Cynthia Deng
Elif Erez
Kari Roynesdal
Ridhi Chopra
Amiti Singh

Origins

Feminist Spatial Practices was founded by Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken in 2023. The collective grew from an initial research and visualization project by Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken, which was commissioned by the Jencks Foundation and e-flux for the Chronograms project and published on e-flux. That project was informed by conversations with Kadambari Baxi, Virginia Black, Lori Brown, S. E. Eisterer, Ruo Jia, Jerome Haferd, Lindsay Harkema, Elke Krasny, Korantemaa Larbi, Ana María León, Ishita Shah, Anooradha Siddiqi, Tijana Vujosevic, Alla Vronskaya, Sumayya Vally, and Mimi Zeiger. The project was published with an open call for participation in a new Feminist Spatial Practices collective, and the respondents to that open call have formed this community.

Land Acknowledgement

Feminist Spatial Practices acknowledges much of the work from our global archive and the work of our community members takes place on indigenous land. We honor and pay our respect to indigenous communities globally around the world, and acknowledge that the unjust removal of indigenous peoples has directly benefited many in our community. We encourage every community member in Feminist Spatial Practices to do their own research, resource assessment, and create a concrete plan with measurable actions to support and advocate for indigenous communities in and around their regions.

Supporters

Foundations

re:arc institute

Cowles Charitable Trust

Individuals

Santi Alvarez
Daisy Ames
Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
Kadambari Baxi
Nicole Neeman Brady
Cory Buckner
Jane Carlson
Robert Chave
Annie Chu
Layna Chen
Courtney Coffman
Sarah Cowles
Cecilia Dan
E.V. Day
Louise Dembeck
Andrea Dietz
Jori Erdman
Gina Ford
Druv K
Molly Kellogg

Carol Kurtz
Julia Gamolina
Sarah Gunawan
Margo Handwerker
Lindsay Harkema
Richard McCoy
Virginia Melnyk
Rohan Nayyar
Jane Rendell
Akshit Sethi
Paulette Singley
Elizabeth Streat and David Neeman
Sasha Topolnytska
Brittany Utting
Alexandra Wilkinson
Mariah Williams
Mabel Wilson
Jamie Vinikoor
Barbara Zheutlin

Fiscal Sponsor

Architectural League of New York

Contributors

Tung Nguyen

Mariah Smith

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Research Contributors:

Kaeli Streeter, Alex Rojo, Zarith, Swati, Chelsea Kilburn, Sumayyah Raji, Miriam Alexandroff, Kriti Malik, Ela, Gaia Saravan, Zoë Holland, Adare Brown, Virginia, Lizzie MacWillie, Katie Rotman

Colophon

WEBSITE DESIGN

Omnivore
Rahul Subhash Shinde
Lukas Eigler-Harding

SITE DEVELOPMENT

Rahul Subhash Shinde
Lukas Eigler-Harding