On 26 November, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence held a seminar entitled “Cities and Universities Free from Gender Violence: Reflections and Practices of Body Mapping” at its Santa Teresa headquarters. as part of the University of Florence's initiatives for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It was coordinated and organised by Prof. Maddalena Rossi (DIDA) and Daniela Poli (DIDA) and promoted by the degree courses in Planning and Design for Urban and Territorial Sustainability and in City, Territory and Landscape Planning at the School of Architecture of the University of Florence and by the Master's Degree in Gender Cities. Methods and Techniques of Urban and Territorial Planning.
Starting from a reflection on how architecture and urban planning can contribute to the construction of cities and territories capable of including a gender perspective, the seminar involved participants in experimenting with the technique of body mapping, in order to build with them a map of their perception of safety in the urban spaces of the city where they study.
Open to all members of the university and the general public, it was attended by around 100 students from the School of Architecture.
Given the high level of interest shown by the student community in the seminar's content, a repeat session is planned for 3 December at the PIN in Prato.
