Feminist Spatial Practices is a global collective of architects, artists, designers, and scholars that celebrates the diverse ways that creators work towards intersectional gender equity in the built environment. Through workshops, lecture series, and projects, the collective fosters a community of thinkers, advocates, and makers who can connect to support each other and share knowledge. The collective considers ‘spatial practices’ broadly to include any creative work engaging with the built environment (art, design, performance, architecture, planning, writing, researching, curating, etc.). ‘Feminist’ here indicates practices that actively engage with themes of gender, sexuality, and social equity, including practitioners of any background and gender identification.
The core values of the organization are: bringing together feminist spatial practices from around the world; celebrating the diversity of ways that feminism is practiced; recognizing the complex and intersectional inequalities that exist due to hierarchies of power and privilege; advocating for and with those most affected by hierarchies of power, including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities and practitioners; welcoming people of any gender or sexual identity to engage with feminism and our community; centering care, equity, and co-creation in spatial practices; and cultivating participatory and reciprocal practices in our organization and with our community.
In addition to its programming, Feminist Spatial Practices maintains an interactive online archive that highlights, promotes, and shares feminist practices in art, design, architecture, and activism, acknowledging and celebrating the different feminisms that have existed across geographies and time. The platform offers an interactive visualization and a searchable index of 600+ global feminist practices in art, design, architecture, and activism. The experimental design of the platform enables visitors to discover relationships between practices, publications, exhibitions, and protest movements across time, with themes such as “experimental pedagogies,” “alternative materialities,” and “spaces for non-conforming bodies.” The entries for the archive have been collectively produced with input from community members around the world. The platform is a medium for community-building, offering an index of global practices, as well as announcements of virtual and in-person events.