Gender-Sensitive Training for Inclusive Placemaking
Gender-Sensitive Training for Inclusive Placemaking
How can you address inequity in cities?
Develop your advocacy, build your placemaking skills, and design better places for women, girls and gender-diverse people.
The micro credential provides foundational training in the key concepts, terminology, and challenges of gender-sensitive placemaking.
Designed for professionals involved in planning, design and policy-making for safer public spaces to develop a more complex understanding of gender-sensitive issues and the imperative to respond to these issues in the creation of, maintenance and re-design of public spaces.
Develop your skills.
All participants who complete the course will receive a Monash digital badge and a Monash micro-credential worth 6 credit points into the highly regarded Monash University Master of Design.
Meet your targets.
This professional development course is designed to provide you with applied approaches to design better cities for women, girls and gender diverse people.
This course is particularly suited to those professionals who need to meet the requirements of the Gender Equality Act 2020.
It is inarguable that cities have historically been planned and designed by men with men’s needs and experiences at the forefront of urban development. It is also inarguable that this excludes some people from participating and feeling included in public life, with women, girls as well as gender diverse and LGBTIQ+ people adversely impacted.
NICOLE KALMS — FOUNDING DIRECTOR
MONASH UNIVERSITY XYX LAB
Meet your academic team
Associate Professor Nicole Kalms
Founding Director, XYX Lab
Nicole Kalms is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design and founding director of the Monash University XYX Lab which leads national and international research in Gender and Place.
Associate Professor Gene Bawden
Co-director, XYX Lab and Head of Design
Gene is a communication designer and Head of Department of Design, Monash University. His research examines representations of cultural belonging, social alignment and gendered expectation.
Dr Gill Matthewson
Researcher, XYX Lab
Dr Gill Matthewson is a founding member of the XYX Lab at Monash University. Dr Matthewson’s research examines gender and cities through quantitative and qualitative data analysis and visualisation.
Isabella Webb
Designer, XYX Lab
Isabella Webb supports the senior research team of the XYX Lab and deploys her interdisciplinary skillset to further the Lab's research into gender and space.
This course is provided by XYX Lab.