This documentary, created by Laidlaw Scholar Maia Cassie during her placement with URBANA, explores how participation, gender inclusion and collective care can contribute to more inclusive and caring cities. Through three community-centred initiatives, it highlights the role of lived experience, local knowledge and collective action in shaping urban futures.

This animation explores what it means to live and move as a woman in the city, and how urban environments can become more inclusive. It presents URBANA’s vision of cities that respond to diverse everyday experiences and puts participation and the right to the city at the centre of urban decision-making.

As part of the Erasmus+ DiverCity programme, URBANA worked with workshop participants to co-create the PagratiFem Project. Through participatory budgeting, a neighbourhood festival in Pagrati brought women of different ages together to share experiences and discuss the everyday challenges they face in the city.

One of our favourite projects, Avles Simperilipsis (Inclusive Schoolyards), was selected as one of the 61 finalists out of over 1,450 applicants for the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023. Focusing on the schoolyard as an important everyday space for children, the project invited students to explore how it was used and imagine how it could become more inclusive through creative and participatory activities.

Through a series of exploratory walks in Agios Dimitrios, residents mapped shared concerns and evaluated public space from a gender perspective. The participatory process focused on visibility, accessibility and safety, creating space for residents to share experiences and propose ways to make their neighbourhood more inclusive for women.

Modern cities are designed to facilitate capital production while marginalizing other key needs that we have as individuals. Eva Grigoriadou, founder of URBANA, talks about how a feminist perspective can help us rethink and redesign our cities by putting our diverse everyday lives in the center of urban planning.

Through a series of workshops, 15 women students of Panteion University participated in the exploratory walks around the area of the University and evaluated their experiences. The project aimed to highlight women's daily experiences as a tool for rethinking the city and developing more inclusive interventions in the public space.