Making Space for Girls, with Angela Manning Wood and Make Space for Girls is coming to the Museum of Bath Architecture, The Paragon, Bath on Weds 6 August, 6pm (doors at 5.30pm).
Held in association with Bath Preservation Trust (BPT) and RIBA Bristol and Bath, in this talk Angela Manning Wood will look at the background to the work of Make Space for Girls, drawing together what is known about who uses the spaces in parks designed for teenagers, and unpicking some of the misconceptions about what teenagers want.
Angela will also look at examples of more inclusive spaces and talks about how young women and girls can be involved in creating spaces in our parks that feel they are ‘for them’.
No-one sets out to create parks that don’t feel welcoming to teenage girls; it isn’t inevitable that they should feel excluded and the solution isn’t to try to ‘fix’ the girls so that they will use the facilities that are there.
Make Space For Girls is a charity which since 2021 has been working to make parks and similar spaces more welcoming to teenage girls, non-binary young people and the boys for whom current park provision doesn’t work. It isn’t about creating segregated spaces, designing out boys or reinforcing stereotypes. It’s about taking steps to positively design in teenage girls and make parks feel welcoming, safe and inclusive.
Angela Manning Wood is a Trustee for Make Space for Girls. She is also a mother of three girls aged 9, 6, and (almost) 4, and she is an Urban Design Director for Pegasus Group, one of the leading multi-disciplinary consultancies supporting developers and landowners to deliver development within the UK.
Angela has over 15 years of experience designing the built environment from bespoke dwellings through to strategic growth of thousands of dwellings. Working at the coalface, she sees the real time the impact MSFG is steadily having on the design developments and is honoured to be representing them for this talk.
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