๐๐๐ฅ๐ค: ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ข๐ค๐? with Zainab Marvi
Whose City? Feminist Struggles for Space and Justice
How do cities become gendered, and what would a feminist city look like? This two-part series with Pakistani scholar Zainab Marvi explores questions of justice, care, and everyday life in urban spaces from an intersectional perspective. We will be looking at examples from Berlin and Karachi and combine theory and real-world practice.
From Karachi to Berlin: Feminist Cities in Practice
Cities are never neutral. They reflect and reproduce power. This talk explores how gender shapes the way we move through urban environments, and how women and marginalized communities resist these constraints in everyday life. Drawing on a decade of research, I will share insights into mobility, safety, and resistance strategies, whether through rickshaws, self-defense, superstition, or collective practices of care. Using feminist methodologies and visual storytelling, we will consider how design can center marginalised perspectives, challenge dominant narratives of space, and highlight how pockets of feminist cities are already being enacted in the here and now.
Zainab Marvi is a Pakistani communication designer, researcher, illustrator and educator based in Berlin. Her work focuses on feminist and decolonial approaches to cities, with particular attention to how marginalised communities experience and shape urban space. She works through counter-mapping, storytelling, and sensory practices to reimagine public space as sites of resistance, solidarity, and belonging.
Admission: Donation of 2โฌ or more
P.S. Stay tuned for the workshop on the same topic with Zainab Marvi on October 2, which will soon be announced through our channels!