Gender-Sensitive Training for Inclusive Placemaking - PDF1002

This short course 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.

Who should attend

This short course is relevant to professionals wanting to better understand the ways in which gender-sensitive placemaking can address issues of equity and safety.

It is suitable for professionals involved in local government planning and architects, urban planners, and other professionals needing professional development.

It will be particularly suited to those professionals who need to meet the requirements of the Gender Equality Act 2020.

What you will learn

By the end of the short course, participants will:

  • Understand the importance of gender-inclusive and safety theories, frameworks, and research in evaluating and designing Gender-Sensitive Placemaking projects.
  • Have developed an informed gender lens and the capability to apply that gender lens to their own work-role using reflective practice.
  • Support and advocate from a knowledge-based position for gender-sensitive placemaking within the workplace, in particular as it relates to policy and practices as well as engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Be able to confidently undertake informed and gender-sensitive design of policy, urban spaces, or programs.

Program structure

This short 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.

Testimonials

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

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Associate Professor Nicole Kalms

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

Professor Gene Bawden

Co-director, XYX Lab and Head of Design

Gene is a communication designer and Head of MADA’s Design Department. His research examines representations of cultural belonging, social alignment and gendered expectation.

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.

Discover how our training promotes gender inclusion and equity in placemaking practices.