In celebration of International Women’s Day 2021, Women in Planning and the TCPA hosted an event focusing on the theme this year of ‘choose to challenge’. We are choosing to challenge how we plan.
About this Event
Places should be planned with everyone in mind. Planners, developers and all involved in creating the built environment and the spaces inbetween should consider all perspectives. How different people use the same spaces in different ways. What can we do to challenge the status quo and make real change towards more equitable and inclusive places? How can we ensure we plan inclusively?
Leading academic Inés S Madariaga discusses what we as planners can do to make progress. There will then be a panel of women who are involved in gender mainstreaming and women and planning the UK who will reflect on progress and Inés presentation.
Speaker
Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Inés Sánchez de Madariaga is UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation and Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and a leading international expert on gender in city planning, architecture and STEM with extensive experience in both public policy and research. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at UCLA, a member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the Spanish UN-Sustainable Solutions Development Network and an Advisor to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. She has been Chair of the international COST network Gender, Science, Technology and Environment, genderSTE; co-Director of the EU-US Gendered Innovations Project.
As member of the European Commission Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation and Chair the EC Expert Group on Structural Change of Research Organizations, she played a key role in the negotiations to introduce gender as a central element of the EC research program Horizon2020. She is/has been member of the Scientific Advisory Committees of the European projects Genport, Genovate, Gender Action, RRITools, Libra, Sagerip, GEDII, and Principal Investigator of the EC FP projects Gender-Net, RRING, GE-Academy, and TRIGGER.
Inés is an EC Urbact expert and a member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO global project to promote gender in science SAGA. She has held public office in Spain as Deputy Director General for Architecture, Advisor to the Minister of Housing, Advisor to the Minister of Science and Innovation, Director of the Women and Science Unit at the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Research, Technology and Development. She is a former Fulbright grantee and she has been Visiting Researcher at the Bauhaus-Weimar in Germany, the London School of Economics, and Columbia University in the City of New York.
She is editor of two reference books on gender in planning: Engendering Cities: Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for All, Routledge, 2020, and Fair Shared Cities. The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe. 2013.
Event Chair
Zoe Green, Assistant Director, Cities & Urbanisation, PwC
Zoe advises on place-based growth, urban planning and spatial analytics at PwC. Working closely with government, private sector and multilaterals across 15+ countries (UK, Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, South America and Africa), Zoe has provided strategic and spatial planning advice on urban economic and sustainable development. Zoe is a highly adaptive and experienced spatial planner and project manager who brings a broad perspective to solving complex problems in challenging urbanising environments.
