fem*MAP BERLIN. Feminist spatial systems for a non-sexist city [original]

Juliana Garcia Leo

Jörn Gertenbac

Maximilian Hin

Tildem Kirtak, Katrina Neelands Malinski,

Natasha Nurul

Annisa, Jessica Voth (TU Berlin), Peter Máthé, Anna Rodriguez

Bisbicus, Lara Stöhlmacher (UDK Berlin)

Julia Köpper, Dagmar Pelger, Martha Wegewitz

Prof. Jörg Stollmann

Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation, TU Berlin 2021

www.cud.tu-berlin.de

In cooperation with Katharina Koch and Sylvia Sadzinski

alpha nova & galerie futura

www.galeriefutura.de

Handdrawing, August 2020

CUD Work Reports No.1:

fem*MAP BERLIN. Feminist Spatial Systems for a non-sexist City. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-11708

fem*MAP BERLIN

FEMINIST SPATIAL

SYSTEMS FOR A

NON-SEXIST CITY

What does a feminist appropriation of (urban) space mean

for critical planning practice? What role do women* play in

architecture, planning and urban politics?

21/08 - 23/08

2049

fem* FESTIVAL

PROGRAM

The time has come! We warmly welcome you to the

Olympiastadion for the start of the international FEM *

festival! To mark the 30th anniversary of International

Women’s Day as a public holiday in Berlin, you can look

forward to 3 days of exchange with people from all over

the globe. We are particularly excited to welcome so many

members of the women, trans* and inter communities

to our city. The whole event is accompanied by exciting

programing and a threeday parade through Berlin, exploring

the history of feminist urban planning!

DAY 1 / START: 12 AM 21-08-2049

We start at the Olympiastadion (1) with our ﬁrst destination

in mind: the Irmgard-Keum-Bibliothek (2), which is located

in the former epicenter of the West Berlin women’s

movement, where in 1978 hundreds of women wanted to

save the most important archive of the women’s movement

and founded the ffbiz women’s shop and the feminist archiv.

We continue along Kantstraße, where the ﬁrst collectively

organized women’s bookshops (3) opened in 1975. Earlier

these bookstores were an important meeting point, free

of patriarchal knowledge structures. Today every second

shop on the street is run by women. We next stroll by

the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum (4), a visit this weekend

would be especially worthwhile, because to honor this

year’s anniversary the museum has also opened the new

permanent exhibition “Alte Meisterinnen”. We continue

towards Schöneberg where the women’s health center

FFGZ (feminist women’s health centre) (5) has also

grown in recent years. They are proud to show off their

new extension, housing a consultation centre for male

contraception. The 75 years of competence they bring to

heath care is easy to see.

Something exiting has happened at Nollendorfplatz (6).

Berlin’s ﬁrst play neighborhood has emerged from the

formerly busy intersection. The Kiezeltern e.V. – the

neighborhood’s self-organized and paid childcare - take care

of the little townspeople who can run around freely through

the streets. This is especially fun because everything in

the neighbourhood is geared towards the needs of Berlins

smaller residents.

REMEMBRANCE,

REPRESENTA-

TION & POLITICS

Critical feminist representation along the

U1 in Berlin

A speculative view into a feminist future cityscape alongside

Berlin’s U1 subway line:

We enter the U1 at Warschauer Straße, heading to an Exhibition

at Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum in Charlottenburg. Passing by

Skalitzer Straße, large murals show the faces of Berlin’s female

mayors and we note that throughout the past ten years the ofﬁce

was continuously held by women*.

At Kottbusser Tor, the loud speaker reminds us of the nearby

‘Museum of Intersectional Feminism’. Departing Gleisdreieck,

we spot the Pachamama Sculptures that have been erected

during the protests to prevent international investors from

constructing a high rise complex next to Gleisdreieck-Park.

At Kurfürstenstraße, the train descends underground and

activists enter the train, asking us to sign a petition in support of

local sex workers.

Nollendorfplatz has not changed at all in the last years, however

at Wittenbergplatz we are happy to see beautiful sexism free

advertisements from international fair trade fashion brands in

the train station.

Soon it is time to get off. The loud speaker calls the name of

the recently renamed ‘Uhlandstraße’, now referring to one

of the most inﬂuential feminist artist of the 20th century:

‘Valie-Export-Straße! Last stop of the line! Please leave the

train here!’ Up in the daylight, we cross the bike lane and are

not afraid to get run over by a car since Kurfürstendamm was

turned into a 30 km/h zone. I stop in front of an old street lamp

because one of the many stickers catches my eye that says ‘Boys

welcome’. It is an announcement from a female student group

who offer free mathematics coaching in the Rooftop Restaurant

of KaDeWe on Sundays.

Although the discrimination of non-male people cannot

be overcome by stickers and street names, the spatial

representation of women* contributes to the political process

of accomplishing gender equality because it conﬁgures the

environment where our thoughts and beliefs are shaped.

Hsiao-Lan Chuang, Natasha Nurul Annisa, Paul Bostanjoglo

CAREWORK

Neighbourhood of Care

Community-based care relies on infrastructures and resources

from the other sectors. It often is sustained through commoning

- concerted actions of members of individual households. At the

same time it often depends on infrastructures sustained in the

logics of the public and private sector, like public playgrounds or

small shops allowing for encounters.

However, community-based care is essential in ﬁlling the

abundant gaps in between the other sectors. It can relieve the

burden on individuals, mostly women, which always only partly

can rely on the state to provide child care, since schools close

in the afternoon and someone has to accompany the child from

home to care institution. Help from neighbours allows elderly

people to live at home longer. Collective organizing has the

potential of communalizing care work.

In our society care work in the household is unpaid and in the

public and private sector usually paid - Community-based care

work is in between. Sometimes it is done next to paid work,

sometimes it is unpaid, in all cases it calls for a redrawing of

the line and can move the unpaid care work in an individual

household towards being remunerated.

Community-based care...

...is not visible in the discourse on care work

...is part of a future, non-sexist empowering system of care work

...needs space and suitable infrastructures

André Sacharow, Juliana Garcia Leon, Julia Gersten

body & health care

child & youth care

elderly care

emotional & psychosocial care

providing food

caring for a place

paid unpaid

community-based

institutional

types of care

original use

visibility

accessibility

season

week days

time of the day

all winter spring summer

all mon-fri

day

shopempty lot

not visiblevisible

easy medium difficult

night day & night

weekend spontaneous

autumn

space qualities care qualities

time qualities

Legend

NIGHTSCAPES

We wonder how walkable Berlin city is from a feminist

perspective during the night.

By scanning the local news and social media one can discover a

few representations of places, identiﬁed as unsafe. Topics like

gender-oriented crime, sexual harassment

and violent assaults evidently appear. In regard of that it

becomes clear that an unsafe feeling is actually caused by other

people.

But obviously space and built surroundings are able to

reproduce those feelings or even to stimulate those situations.

Urban planning already has at least a concept to approach

gender based safe urban environment, but situations can

completely

change their qualities during night or day. Via talking to

women* living in Berlin, we want to consider, if the criterias,

developed from the urban planners, really effect their feeling of

safetyness, especially during the night.

We are going to retrace the daily night routes of women* to

compare their subjective experiences with the design rules

of the planners, which are intended to be objective. Thereby

we want to create a subjective safety catalogue of individual

perceived objects and spatial conditions in Berlin, which could

be called as Night Typologies.

Yu-Pin Chiu, Tamar Gürciyan, Maximilian Hinz, Tildem Kirtak,

Kamal Maharjan, Santiago Sánchez

MORE OFTEN THAN EVERY

THIRD DAY IN GERMANY, ONE

WOMAN IS KILLED BY HER

PARTNER

REPORTED VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC

VIOLENCE IN 2019

AMONG THEM:

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VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY

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VICTIMS OF SEXUAL

ABUSE

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STALKING OR

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PARTNERSHIP

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INJURY

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IN TOTAL

3,368 PEOPLE IN

PRISON IN 2018*

* for different crime

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THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY THEIR

PARTNERS OR FORMER PARTNERS

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THE INCREASE IN

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DURING

CORONAVIRUS

UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE FOR SINGLE 432

.................

FOR A CHILD UNDER 5 YEARS +250

................. 6 - 13 YEARS +308

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1498€ IS A MINIMUM SALARY(2017)

.61% OF ALL EMPLOYEES

AT THE MINIMUM WAGE

ARE WOMEN

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PEOPLE

EMPLOYED PERSONS MONTHLY NET INCOME

GENDER PAY GAP

THE EXPECTED INCREASE IN THE

POPULATION OF BERLINERS FROM

3,769,000 IN 2019 TO 4,437,187 IN 2030

afforda-

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FOUR OUT OF FIVE GERMANS SAID THEY BELIEVE

HIGH LIVING COSTS CREATE A CONSIDERABLE

POVERTY RISK.

SHORTAGE OF

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

310,000 APARTMENTS

ANY APARTMENT

76% OF ALL APARTMENT

61% OF ALL APARTMENT

POVERTY LINE

25% OF ALL APARTMENT

HOUSEHOLDS .(2017)

TOTAL - 2,002,900

54,700 = 2,7%

193,700 = 9,7%

126,700 = 6,3%

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THRESHOLD OF AFFORDABILITY

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RENTAL FLATS

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(2017)

THE BIGGEST SHORTAGE IS TO BE FOUND

AMONG SINGLES LIVING UNDER THE

POVERTY LINE WHO HAVE INCOMES OF

LESS THAN 60 PERCENT OF THE MEAN.

(C.) BERLIN-BASED RESEARCHER

ANDREJ HOLM

STATS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

AGAINST

WOMEN IN BERLIN

SHORTAGE OF

AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAKES

FINDING PROTECTION

DIFFICULT

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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BERLIN HOUSING CRISIS

POPULATION STATS

FLATMATE OR STRANGER?

LOW INCOME

LACK OF AFFORDABILITY

WHAT FACTORS MAKE THIS

SITUATION MORE DIFFICULT

FOR WOMEN?

WHAT ARE THE STATISTICS OF

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FROM

FLATMATE OR STRANGER?

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5449

[ 729 PLACES

IN TOTAL ]

FRAUENHÄUSER

REFUGE APARTMENTS

[ 298 ][ 301 ] [ 130 ]

SECOND-LEVEL

APARTMENTS

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=$"$'&)./1

SOME WOMEN STAY HERE

UNTIL 18 MONTHS

HIGH

WORKLOAD

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SPACE FOR

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TIME SPENT

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HOUSING

5449

KEEPING IN MIND MIN WAGE 1,584 € PER MONTH (2020) AND 30% AS A

THRESHOLD OF AFFORDABILITY FOR RENT VALUE, WE WERE

SEARCHING "THE AFFORDABLE" ACCOMODATION IN BERLIN WITH COST

475.2 EURO PER MONTH

WE FOUND AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS IN ONLY ONE PLACE IN BERLIN

56># MIXED FLAT SHARE

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WG-GESUCHT BERLIN ADSWG-GESUCHT RENTAL TYPE

LONG TERM

SAMPLE SIZE

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AVERAGE RENT

493€

AVERAGE ROOM

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>>9

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*WG-GESUCHT.DE BERLIN [15.06.2020]

NUMBER OF ADS 4731

HOUSING CHOICES IN BERLIN

(FEM*HOUSES)

EMERGENCY HOUSING

LIVING ON YOUR OWN

WG*

IF YOU ARE NOT SAFE AT HOME

(FOR WHATEVER REASON)

WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?

SHORT TERM LONG TERM

STUDENT HOUSING

EMERGENCY HOUSING

FURNISHED FLATS WG (SHARED FLATS) FLAT FOR ONE PERSON

CO-HOUSING

CO-OP

WG (SHARED FLATS)

STUDIO FLATS

AIRBNB

HOTELS, HOSTELS

MICRO HOUSES

FRAUENHÄUSER

(WOMEN SHELTERS)

WOMEN ONLY WG

LGBTQIA+ FRIENDLY WG

STUDIO FLATS

STUDENTWERK RESIDENCES

PRIVATE STUDENT RESIDENCES

WG (SHARED FLATS)

SELF-INITIATIVES

|COMMUNITY CREATION|

SOCIAL HOUSING

MICRO HOUSES

FLATS WITH 2+ROOMS

AFFORDABLE

SAFE

RENTAL

OWNERSHIP

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MARZAHN-HELLERSDORF

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ALL-FEMALE WGS

WHAT CAN BE DONE?

The behaviour is mostly run between

home and the university. Other than

that, more localised behaviour is present,

mostly in a 3 km radius. It is reported

that the S-Bahn in Warschauer Strasse

gets cancelled very often and that the bus

provided instead is not convinent, and

for this reason interviewee prefers to take

her bike with her to this location.

Behavioural Type C has a localised

pattern. Home is the single centre. It

is the pattern where we see the supply

avaibility is the highest in a smaller

raidus. Preference of the way of moving

is priorily by walking or by cycling.

Public Transport is not preﬀered by

the interviewee, except for occasional

lake trips. Also, as reported by the

interviewee, here is no good public

transport connection between home and

kita, so bicycle is preferred for this route.

This information graphics show the

process of the research as overall

narrative. Taking domestic violence as

a starting point, statistics of domestic

violance are presented. Rather than

concentrating on the reasons and

outcomes of domestic violance from

family/partner; the research takes a

position to bring the inexplicit situations

of domestic violance into light. It

takes Berlin‘s current housing crisis in

center and evaluates this in a feminist

perspective. How safe and aﬀordable

is renting in Berlin as a single/young

women?

Representing Berlin: U1 Line

U1 is the oldest U-bahn line in Berlin.

Spanning 9 km, it connects the east

to the west part of the city center,

from Frederichshain-Kreuzberg

to Tempelhof-Schöneberg and

Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf. Mapping

the neighborhoods along this line makes

it possible to see the links between and

beyond neighborhoods, and help de

ne shared spaces. Unlike the S-bahn,

the U-bahn is more deeply woven into

local neighborhoods, enabling closer

observation into the urban fabric.

Mapping of relationships between queer

feminist spaces, events and institutions

within Berlin.

Data gathered from literature research

as well as ﬁeld observations of the spaces.

Relationships are sorted by nature

(ﬁnancial support, advertising, etc.) and

direction. Sources of income and the type

of each entity is also noted.

DAY 2 / START 10 PM 22-08-2049

After dusk it’s off to Tiergarten (7)! The illuminated bike

paths, drink vendors and kiosks have livened up even the

furthest corners of the park. Fortunately, exercising or just

taking relaxed stroll is no longer just a daytime but also a

nighttime activity.

The hustle and bustle in the dark helps everyone feeling

safe, this particularly has improved the park considerably in

recent years, and we are quite proud of this improvement.

We make a short stop opposite the Soviet Memorial. Here

we pause for a moment at The Memorial (8) commemorating

the fallen in the worldwide struggle against the patriarchy.

Walking parallel to Clara-Zetkin-Allee, we continue through

the Brandenburg Gate and along Unter den Linden. From a

distance we can already see the Mont Femott (9). Any who

wish to stop off and visit are warmly welcome. Otherwise,

we continue onward to Kottbusser Tor, weaving through the

streets in which the Berlin’s ﬁrst women’s housing projects

were founded in the early 1980s. On the way, feel free to

distribute the stickers (10) of all the international groups

taking part in this year’s festival.

In the pedestrian zone of Kottbusser Tor (11) we end

our journey at the night bazaar. The members of the

Hatun Sürücü e.V. are also here, playing their nightly

Backgammon-games – new players always welcome! A free

shuttle is available to Audre Lorde Street, where ADEFRA is

hosting a party.

DAY 3 / START: 12 AM 23-08-2049 Bike Day

We meet on the Oberbaumbrücke and follow the banks of

the Spree. This area was one of the ﬁrst to be included in

the city’s “Islands of affordability” (12) program, producing

a variety of affordable and inclusive housing. At the same

time, the banks of the Spree were made accessible to

the public via a beautiful boardwalk. The surrounding

neighborhoods are proud of the diversity and culture that

has emerged in the area. On the other side of the river, a

visit to alpha nova & galerie futura is always worthwhile.

The A100 bicycle highway (13) continues to the former

women’s prison in Lichtenberg - today one of the world’s

leading all bodies holistic health centers (14). With the new

fast bike connection, we end our trip in Marzahn at the new

Centre for Environmental Justice (15). Stay a while and take

a look!

Fotos: Juliana Garcia Leon, Katrina

Neelands Malinski, Dagmar Pelger

QUEER*

FEMINIST

SPACES OF

EMPOWERMENT

Mapping Social and Physical Networks

In order to approach a non-sexist city, it is important to

understand its structural conditions in all their subtleties and

various dimensions. Cities can be described as conglomerates

composed of material and non-material conditions, such as the

built environment and the social sphere.

Queer feminist spaces of empowerment rely largely on the

behavior of their users to function. In order to enable this, a

code of inhabiting space has developed across a geographically

disparate but socially networked series of spaces throughout

Berlin. By mapping the network of spaces where this code of

conduct is present, we seek to understand the variety of ways

in which they are linked socially and ﬁnancially, while exploring

how this code of conduct manifests spatially in individual

PARKDAYTIME USE

PARKING LOTS

COVERED SPACES

7/8 ASSESSMENTS

5/8 ASSESSMENTS

4/8 ASSESSMENTS

3/8 ASSESSMENTS

7/8 ASSESSMENTS

NICHES

TRAFFIC LIGHTS

BAR / RESTAURANT

TAKE AWAY

SHOPS

85 % Safety Perception 66 % Safety Perception

100 % Unsafety Perception60 % Unsafety Perception

100 % Unsafety Perception

100 % Unsafety Perception 66 % Safety Perception 66 % Safety Perception

100 % Unsafety Perception

80 % Safety Perception

Lively

Enough Distance

LIGHT

QUALITY

SAFETY

PERCEPTION

ACTIVITY

PEOPLE

PROXIMITY

VISIBILITY

Perceived as Men

Perceived as Women*

Suspicious

Not Visible / Unclear

Observe Attentive

Feel Observed

Narrow Distance

Lonely

OBJECT

QUALITY Enclosed

Dark

Light

Mid-light

Safe

Unsafe

Opened

VARIABLE

AND

SOCIAL

PERMANENT

AND

PHYSICAL

Activity

Safety Perception

Light Quality

Object Properties

Visual Relation

People

Proximity

Type Icon

€

Lebensberatung

Schokofabrik

Silverfuture

Wildwasser e.V.

Unteilbar

Teddy

Queerberg

Liebig34

Möbel Olfe

Behindert

Pride Parade

Lesbisch

Schwule Stadtfest

Berlin Porn

Film Festival

Berlin Feminist

Film Festival

Siegessäule

female:pressure

Kotti & Co.

PorYes

Gladt e.V.

Pansy Presents

Creamcake

Missy Magazine

Bikeygees

Gegen

Mint

Room 4 Resistance

Aha-Berlin e.V.*

Schwuz

Rad und Tat

Dyke March

Aquarium

OYA

LesMigraS

Cafe Kotti

Other Nature

Refugio

BEGiNE

://about blank

Sexclusivitäten

Ipek

SO36

Südblock

entity type

form of income

members of the network.

The research zooms into three queer spaces located at

Kottbusser Tor, each selected from a list of suggestions

provided during our initial survey. Using three different spaces -

Südblock, Schokofabrik and Café Kotti - the different layers are

analysed to understand how social and physical factors come

together to create a space of empowerment.

Although these places are spatially fragmented, they are

part of a very close and diverse network. This includes actors

from different ﬁelds: political groups, festivals, magazines,

performers and many more. External circumstances or

threats can also be adequately responded to as a community.

In this network not only feminist questions and problems are

addressed, but also topics such as racism and classism.

Another point that creates a connection between the spaces is

the code of conduct users of the spaces adhere to - sometimes

it is spatially manifested in form of a poster, sometimes there

are social agreements that are reﬂected in the behaviour of the

visitors.

This above all demands openness and tolerance and often

explicitly forbids anti-discriminatory behaviour of various kinds.

As an example of how these social agreements can be expressed

spatially, gender neutral toilets can be mentioned here. On the

social level, heteronormative gender roles are deconstructed,

gender binarity is dissolved and space for different genders is

created. In the actual space, however, there is then a departure

from the traditional division of toilets into women and men,

which means that gender neutral toilets are used.

This example, which is also used in our case studies, is intended

to illustrate that there is always an interaction between the

social and the physical layer and that both inﬂuence each other.

The network as well as the Code of Conduct are subject to

constant negotiation processes and at the same time are

continuously being expanded. Both are not tied to any speciﬁc

place, which means that they can be expanded or transferred to

any place at any time.

Rowaa Ibrahim, Sebastian Georgescu, Katrina Neelands

Malinski, Solveigh Paulus

MOVING

TROUGH BERLIN

A feminist trafﬁc turn

A great amount of literature is provided on mobility and gender

drawing out two disparate trends of thinking. While one focusses

on how mobility shapes gender, the other has examined how

gender shapes mobility.

The mobility research studies that focus on the differences

between genders shows the very much simpliﬁed conclusion

that women have a more vivid movement pattern with much

more steps in between, while men just move from home to work

and back again. This pattern can for sure not unconditionally

be applied to all women in every society. We believe that

it is strongly connected to the personal circumstances and

additionally the unbalanced distribution of care work and

therefore the social roles ascribed by most societies and not the

biological gender.

Most studies on mobility (and gender) are also not dealing with

the spatial transfer of the ﬁndings. We believe that there needs

to be a shift to research agendas that also take geographic,

social and cultural but especially spatial context into account.

Simply put, how do women shape mobility spaces in Berlin

and how do mobility spaces in Berlin shape women’s mobility

behaviour?

In our Berlin-speciﬁc research we found a set of parameters

that are worth looking at in greater depth. First, the distribution

of productive and reproductive work does play a role and

especially the connection of this topic with the conﬁguration

of the direct living environment is very important. Second,

multimodality and shared mobility are important trends that

inﬂuence the opportunities for better mobility choices of

women. Third the safety of all kinds of mobility infrastructures

from bike lanes to streetlights or public transport spaces seem

to have an enormous effect on how women move through Berlin.

The fem*MAP Mobility is the result of the attempt to spatialise

the topics we found in various interviews on the Berlin

cityscape. In addition to that, we used other ways of mapping

and visualising the complex relationship of gender, space and

mobility in Berlin.

Reaching a more gender-sensitive perspective on space and

mobility will help to improve existing infrastructures and

offering more equal levels of accessibility for transport to all

different groups.

Elif Civici, Jörn Gertenbach, Sena Gür, Jessica Voth

GENDER-BASED

HOUSING

The Berlin housing crisis for women,

or: Häuserkampf ist Frauen*kampf

Gender-based violence is a global pandemic. It has inﬁltrated

every possible place; in every possible form. It exists in both the

public and the private realms. It cat-calls women as they walk in

the street, it gropes and grabs where it shouldn’t, and it makes

the home a dangerous place. There is a spectrum of violence

against women, and it spans different degrees of severity,

locations, and people. Though every situation is different, all

Within a one week mapping camp in August 2020, the research

and the mappings produced in the seminar

fem*MAP BERLIN were brought together into a common vision

for the future of Berlin, the fem*MAP 2049.

The goal of creating this map was to make the contents of the

atlases accessible and readable in one integrated document.

The collectively drawn and conceptualized map shows

the transformative potential of the 8 different hypotheses

formulated in the seminar: feminist urban structures of

political representations, institutions of empowerment,

neighbourhoods of care, diverse modes of mobility, illuminated

nightscapes and accessible and adequate housing provision.

Throughout the week the key elements and transformative

potentials of the different mappings were identiﬁed and

overlaid with each other to create the new integrated map.

The individual elements were expanded and put in relation to

each other. A common legend and colour code for the fem*MAP

2049 was developed, showing the interrelation of the different

spatial systems 2020 in black. Possible transformative spaces

and practices were projected into the future and drawn in red.

The main elements of fem*MAP 2049 were also transformed

into a cartographic spatial installation on the ﬂoor of the

gallery space of alpha nova & galerie futura, as well as a

banner for affordable housing and the announcement of a

feminist festival. Together with the fem*MAP 2049 at a scale of

1:10.000, the ﬂoor mapping and the banners integrate the six

artistic positions into a "feminist perspective for Berlin today"

– in preparation for a non-sexist city in the near future.

Confronted with questions raised in

the exhibition “A feminist perspective

for Berlin today! [Reuschling 2017]

What could a non-sexist city look like?

[Hayden 1982]” a research seminar and

a one week mapping camp was held in

summer 2020. Six artistic positions on

feminist spaces, practices and visions in

architecture and urban planning were

the starting point for applying spatial,

analytical, artistic and social research

methods to develop several thematic

mappings that locate the positions in

Berlin’s urban fabric. The essential

elements of these mappings were

brought together to form a shared vision

for the future of Berlin as a cartographic

spatial installation: the fem*MAP 2049.

Julia Köpper, Martha Wegewitz, Dagmar Pelger,

Prof. Jörg Stollmann

Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation,

TU Berlin 2021.

www.cud.tu-berlin.de

In cooperation with Katharina Koch & Sylvia Sadzinski,

alpha nova & galerie futura.

www.galeriefutura.de

With support of Helle Panke e.V. - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Berlin, www.helle-panke.de

The Seminar was organized in the frame of the exhibition

“A feminist perspective for Berlin today! What could a non-

sexist city look like?” with Sarah Held, Elke Krasny & Sophie

Lingg & Claudia Lomoschitz, Dorothea Nold, Banu Çiçek

Tülü, Lena Wegmann and Ina Wudtke at alpha nova & galerie

futura, 22.8.-19.9.2020.

Authors of the map: Juliana Garcia Leon, Jörn Gertenbach,

Maximilian Hinz, Tildem Kirtak, Katrina Neelands Malinski,

Natasha Nurul Annisa, Jessica Voth (TU Berlin), Peter

Máthé, Anna Rodriguez Bisbicus, Lara Stöhlmacher (UDK

Berlin)

This map is part of the publication:

Julia Köpper, Dagmar Pelger, Martha Wegewitz, and Jörg

Stollmann (eds.), CUD Work Reports / CUD Arbeitsberichte

No.1: fem*MAP BERLIN. Feminist Spatial Systems for a non-

sexist City.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-11708

This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons

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CUD Work Reports No.1: fem*MAP BERLIN. Feminist Spatial Systems for a non-sexist City. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-11708

incidents are harmful. Gender-based violence is most visible

in the public realm, but this investigation seeks to uncover

the affects of violence against women in the home; domestic

violence. In Germany, more than 80% of victims are women*.

A woman* could be assaulted in her home by a partner,

roommate, or even a visitor. The incidents include assaults,

harassment, intimidation, you name it.

Meanwhile, Berlin is currently in a housing crisis. In the past

ten years, rents have more than doubled. The population is

growing exponentially, estimated to pass the 4-million-mark

by 2025. The local government has taken steps to counter the

skyrocketing rental prices, including banning mega-landlords

and the recently introduced 5-year rental freeze. However,

ﬁnding a home in Berlin is still extremely difﬁcult. And it seems

to be even harder for women*. In renting, one should consider

the price, location, size, etc. As a woman* an added factor to

consider is that of safety. The majority of ‘short-term’ rentals

in Berlin consist of ﬂat-shares of ‘WGs’. These are apartments

that are usually let by one main tenant, who then rents out the

various bedrooms to other sub-tenants. Financially, women* are

still earning much less than men, meaning that they may have

to compromise on aspects of the apartment when renting. The

gender pay gap in Germany currently sits at a difference of 21%.

The rental crisis is pushing women to live in places that they

feel unsafe, too worried to leave because of how hard it is to ﬁnd

accommodation in the ﬁrst place.

What are the housing options for women* in Berlin? And if

you are unsafe at home, what can you do? Frauenhäuser are

women*’s shelters that offer protection for those needing it.

In 2019 a total of 729 places were available in six women*’s

refuges, as well as refuge apartments and second-level

apartments. They are now working intensively on “emergency

accommodation for women* affected by violence in the event

that the needs cannot be met by the women*’s shelters,” writes

press spokesman Moritz Quiske. But these cannot meet the

demand. There seems to be an increasing number of self-made

all-female* WGs.

Ekaterina Kropacheva, Feyza Sayman, Nikita Schweizer

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