Petra Pferdmenges
founded the practice Alive in 2014 through a practice-based PhD at RMIT, Melbourne. Since then, she and her team have been designing socio-spatial urban transformations in Brussels. In the 2014 ParckFarm project, she curated collaborations between residents and artists to co-create urban interventions in the Tour & Taxis park. Later projects, like The Crack, Place de Houf, and Public Space 4 Her, focused on co-producing installations with marginalized communities.
- Spreker bij PAF op 7 februari 2025.
Tips
Artikel: Alexandra Lange - We need More Public Space for Teen Girls
This article highlights how basketball courts, skate parks, and playgrounds too often overlook an important demographic: teenage girls. Through a specific case study, the author, Alexandra Lange, presents the installation Swing Time, which demonstrates how to address this issue. The article is concise, engaging, and offers fresh insights on the topic.
2. Boek: Gehl Institute - Public Life Diversity Toolkit
I appreciate this book because it not only measures diversity in public space—beyond just focusing on girls and women—but also offers practical tools to achieve it. It presents a variety of real-life examples where people interact in public spaces, prototypes new tools to foster inclusion, and proposes a design brief for a Public Life Diversity Toolkit. Finally, the book is easy to read, well-organized, and enriched with visually appealing, well-presented examples.
3. Boek: Her City – A Guide for Cities to Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Planning and Design together with Girls (third edition)
As outlined in the introduction, this book can be considered a Her City Toolbox. It offers a user guide for developing a cost-efficient process that can be integrated into cities and communities. The toolbox presents nine building blocks as a digital guideline for co-planning cities from a girls’ perspective. As highlighted in the title, this book focuses specifically on girls—going beyond a general focus on women.