Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free conversations guided by citizens inspired by Jane Jacobs.

On the first weekend of May of each year, the Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s walks encourage people to share stories about their neighborhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbors.

Coordinated by the architects María Maria Soler and Arturo Reque, a pleasant walk has been made through the parks known as Pinares de Elvira, where a new concept of peri-urban park has been designed, seeking to adapt these areas for all types of users, maintaining the environment natural. Park with accessible roads, cycle trails, games and areas for various socialization activities.

The SOSTRE association presents generA [barri]: a pilot project for the improvement of the urban space with a gender perspective that will be developed in the neighborhoods of Favara, L’Hort de Senabre and La Creu Coberta (Jesús-Patraix).

One of the central aims of the project is to respond to the specific urban needs of women in the daily use of the city and encourage their participation, and given the profile and purposes of their groups, we trust that the project will be of interest.

GenerA [barri] is a pilot project for the improvement of the city that contemplates the diversity of experiences that come together every day in the city (childhood, third age, gender, cultural origin, etc). The objective is to detect the urban needs that arise from the daily life in the neighborhood, evaluate if the environment adapts to them and make improvements to achieve more friendly and integrating spaces.

Within the framework of the course on citizen participation organized by the Vasco-Navarra Association of Urbanist Architects, a conference on citizen participation from a diversity perspective was organized.

In the first part of the conference, the theoretical principles on public participation were discussed. In the second part of the same day, practical cases on inclusive urbanism were explained (ProxectoTERRA, Col.lectiu Punt 6 and Zuloark), and in the last part, external experiences and the incorporation of new technologies were explained.

Every year at the beginning of courses, a meeting is held between the students of the School of Architecture of A Coruña to form the team that will be responsible for organizing the FETSAC, the Festival of Architecture.

The idea of ​​the Festival was born in the ETSAC during the 2008-09 academic year. After years of focusing solely on their studies, almost suddenly the students became aware of where they were, what they were or what they did, and how they would like things to be. A few had the idea of ​​changing the status quo, they came together and decided to organize what is currently known by FETSAC.

That first edition set the foundations of the festival: a main theme on which the various activities revolve and which is changing from year to year: lectures and round tables in the mornings, practical workshops in the evenings and a final celebratory day with games, sports suigéneris and nocturnal macrofiesta.

Among other groups, on Monday, April 9, Col.lectiu Punt 6 gave a talk on feminist urbanism and in the afternoon she gave dynamism to a workshop on the nurturing city.

On March 26, 2015, the Congress – with an absolute majority of the PP party- gave the green light to the approval of the Citizen Security Law, with the unanimous rejection of the opposition. A few months later, most of the groups appealed to the Constitutional Court. According to this regulation, what previously appeared as a lack, is now an administrative infraction, which can range from very serious (fined between 30,001 and 600,000 euros), serious (from 601 to 30,000 euros) and mild (from 100 to 600 euros).

Around 40,000 people, according to the Government Delegation, have traveled the streets of Madrid on the afternoon of March 18 to demand the repeal of the Citizen Security Law, in a march in which many attendees have demanded decent pensions from the Government. Under the cries of “Freedom of expression and right to pension” or “They steal our pensions and gag us,” among others, thousands of protesters have joined several claims and have toured the city center in a mobilization called by the platform “We are not a crime” and to which the State Coordinator for the defense of pensions adhered.

The march left at 6:00 pm from a crowded Puerta del Sol and arrived two hours later at the Plaza de las Cortes, where the Congress of Deputies is.

Many of those attending the march have carried a gag in their mouths. During the demonstration, called nine days before the third anniversary of the Law of Citizen Security, slogans have been heard such as “the gag law is a threat”. Several of the participants in the protest have explained that this law “cuts rights and undermines freedom of expression” and has caused the loss of democratic quality in Spain.

La Semana Internacional contra el Acoso en la Calle es un programa iniciado por Stop Street Harassment y se lleva a cabo cada mes de abril, ya que abril es el mes de concienciación sobre el acoso y el asalto sexual (entre otros) en los Estados Unidos.

Holly Kearl, la fundadora de Stop Street Harassment, escribió su tesis sobre acoso callejero en 2007, centrándose en cómo las mujeres usaban los sitios web para compartir sus historias y tácticas para abordar el problema. En el 2008 comenzó un blog que constituyera un lugar para compartir experiencias y recursos. También empazó aquel año a rastrear el activismo global y escribió su primer libro sobre el tema.

En el 2011 se inició la Semana Internacional contra el acoso callejero, ya que había muchos grupos trabajando en este tema en todo el mundo, pero se carecía de tiempo para tomar acciones de manera conjunta. La instauración de esta semana permitió crear este espacio.

Los esfuerzos de SSH evolucionan y tratan de satisfacer las diferentes necesidades. Después de que el movimento #MeToo pareciera centrarse únicamente en los lugares de trabajo, SSH recaudó fondos, encontró socios y comisionó una encuesta nacional en EEUU sobre acoso sexual y agresión. En la encuesta se refleja que casi el triple de personas experimentaron acoso sexual en espacios públicos que en sus lugares de trabajo.

SSH con los años amplió la mirada incluyendo no solo experiencias de las mujeres, sino también las de todos los géneros. se convirtió en una organización oficial sin fines de lucro en 2012. 

Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free conversations guided by citizens inspired by Jane Jacobs.

On the first weekend of May of each year, the Jane’s Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane’s walks encourage people to share stories about their neighborhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbors.

The urban life of Helsinki is very gray and dark, of rain and sleet. Before the question of the leaders of these walks: “Why do we always walk in the summer?” A night walk was proposed January 2018.

A small group of brave residents took advantage of the whole experience of a Helsinki of icy streets and icy wind from the sea. Walking in the evening led to discussions about the darkness and light in the city, and the feelings of security that this entails.