Girls Make The City

In the Indian summer of 2022, ZIJkant and Wetopia united 25 young people with very different interests and backgrounds around a piece of Brussels they share: the skate park at the church of La Chapelle and its immediate surroundings, in the Marolles. It is a place and a neighbourhood where none of them feel really free or safe. Together they figured out how their city could become a more inclusive place, for themselves, but also for their parents, friends and neighbours. Their proposals were translated into recommendations for urban planners. A team of architects went on to work with some of the concepts.You can listen to their quest in the episodes in this podcast series. There, the real experts speak: the teenage girls who traverse Brussels' public spaces every day and have a feel for the place like no other. In the last episode we dive into the theory of gender & urban planning, and we give the word to the architects, decision makers and researchers.