Opportunities for a Just Urban Landscape - Feminist. Caring. Resistant.

As a partner of AKNW, lala.ruhr was invited to contribute a statement to the NRW opening of the WIA Women In Architecture Festival 2025. Together with the Ruhr chapter of Architects for Future, we drafted the statement: Opportunities for a Just Urban Landscape – Feminist. Caring. Resilient!

Cities need spaces that bring people together and sustainable structures that strengthen the climate, justice, and community. We must design our cities to be more feminist and caring, while harnessing and preserving resilience!

As part of the opening of the WIA by the Ruhr Chapter, Sebastian Schlecht, founder of lala.ruhr, spoke alongside Janine Boscheinen and Yannis Kulosa from “Architects for Future” about gender discrimination in planning and construction. “When men plan spaces, they work from their own perspective.” A just city must be conceived more from a female perspective. “Compassion and care work must not be exclusively associated with women, even in urban planning and architecture.”

Date: June 17, 2025
Location: Baukunstarchiv NRW in Dortmund
Link: https://wia-festival.de/event/wia25-opening-im-westen/