start

Dear Rotterdam,
we realized that you might not be aware that your support right now is not enough.
We need to feel safe and included as citizens and trespassers of your city.
We need to be seen, welcomed. You need to take care of us.
I speak on behalf of many caregivers that call you their home.
We need changing rooms that are not hiding in women-only restrooms.
We need them to be accessible to everyone because a caregiver is not tied to a specific gender.
Inclusivity and respect is what we are longing for. It starts with educating the next generation.
You have to create a safe environment in which everyone can express themselves, grow and learn together.
That begins, like was stated before, with better education from an early age.
Teaching children that everyone is human and equal and should be treated with respect.

And why is it that the city is not accessible to everyone?
Public transportation is a pain for more than 2 million people in the Netherlands, due to their disability.
Traveling for them costs more and takes more time for them.
As a disabled person you need to ask for assistance before they want to enter the carriage.
They should be able to be self-sufficient.
You should make this happen.
You,
Rotterdam,
are unsafe.
Your citizens feel unsafe walking home at night.
Because your streets are dark, cold and unfriendly.
But they don't have to be.
Installing more street lights could be the first step.
People are getting catcalled, followed. Security is so important in a big city like yours.
And if no one is watching, temptation can turn into tragedy. So secure people more.
Make them feel seen, heard and safe.
You know how crucial that can be.
Rotterdam, you could have known this already.
But by not trying to talk to your citizens is staying in a biased world.
We want a city that includes everyone, but to have that we need to let all the voices be heard

so lets start now

in this project we researched the data gap within different topics in the city and how this biased research excludes people form living the same. we wanted to focus on letting the voices be heard by doing desk research and interviewing people on the street to ask them:
- where do you feel like you are being excluded from as a women?

- what in the city do you think that is mostly designed for men?

- do you feel like transport is disability friendly?

- what would a city made for women look like?

by researching this topic we came to the conclusion that the problem is that there is no data to change these uninclusive problems we are facing in the city. so with our installation we want to let the voices be heard and start a conversation with the participans.

our istallation will be a multidisiplinary piece which connects audio with visuals.

roles:

we all did our desk research and connected it all together on this hotglue.
we did the field research together.
the poem/ manifesto was mostky written by Lara
and she did the recording
Ema and Daisy worked on the concept development and the visual pieces for in the installation
we put our majors in this work and it connects really well.