• Imagining Gendered Utopias
• Engendering Urban Public Space
• Imagining Gendered Utopias
This workshop in March 2005 was conceived as an interactive panel discussion where women spoke as citizens, professionals, mothers, commuters, consumers, and flaneurs.
• Neera Adarkar imagined a gender-friendly city from the position of architecture and design.
• Celine D'Cruz provided a view from the perspective of dispossessed women.
• Kalpana Sharma envisioned a utopian world for women journalists and for reporting on women.
• Shireen Gandhy explored the implications of combining a career in art with motherhood.
• Sameera Khan imagined a welcoming public space for breast-feeding women.
This workshop in April 2006 was conceived as a roundtable discussion where we shared ideas with others doing work in related areas and discussed questions of engendering safety, infrastructure and citizenship through papers presented by participants across disciplines.
The papers presented included:
• Session I: Middle Classes and Space
Diya Mehra: 'Inside-Outside: Violence and the Urban Middle Class Woman in India'
Shilpa Phadke: 'The Class of Safety: Gendering Locality in Mumbai'
• Session II: Ghettoizing Space
Tarini Bedi: 'Shiv Sena women in Public: Gender, Performance & the Politics of 'Visibility' in Mumbai'
Sameera Khan: 'Bhendi Bazaar to Bandra: Some Observations on Muslim Women & Public Space in Mumbai'
• Session III: Changing Urban Contexts
Qudsiya Contractor: 'Urban Resettlement: Impact on Women's mobility and access to space'
Aheli Chowdhury and Rukmini Barua: 'Dynamics of Gender and Space in the Informal Sector: Case study of Okhla, Delhi'
• Session IV: (Un)Safe Spaces
Kalpana Viswanath: 'Examining Safety for Women in Public Places in Delhi'
Shilpa Ranade: 'Mapping Everyday Gender-Space: Discussion of a method'
• Session V: Spaces of Performance
Nathan Tabor: 'Constructing the Metropolis: The Poetics of Masculinity in an Urdu Mushaira'
Nithya Raman: 'The Classical Dancer and Ideas of Modern Womanhood'
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