Understanding How Facility Design Can Attract and Encourage Use by Girls, Women and Gender-Diverse Individuals
Awareness around diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and equity is evolving and changing the physical environment that forms the backdrop for sport and recreation. In the development of designs that consider all humans, making the case for girls, women, and gender diverse individuals can positively impact participation in programming offered at facilities and help overcome the barriers that often deter participation.
This section focuses on two key components related to gender equity and the design of recreation facilities:
This Facility Design module was presented as part of the in-person workshops that CPRA facilitated across Canada (2022-2024). Additional resources appear throughout the presentation.
Designing safer parks is important for everyone, but the perspectives and lived experiences of women and girls require specific consideration.
This resource, from Make Space for Girls, provides pictures that prompt conversations about what girls want from a park.
Fitness and recreation centres populate today’s modern urban communities and cater to a wide range of people seeking health, fitness and social connection through physical activity. While women’s experiences in these spaces have received some scholarly attention from feminist scholars and scholars of the body, little research has explored women’s lived experiences of the change room.
By taking a full sustainability lens to our designs at the beginning of the process, we can support better equity, health, and climate resilience for future communities, making our spaces better for everyone.
Cities are supposed to be built for all of us, but they aren’t built by all of us. We spoke to feminists working in urban planning in the city to find out what they think needs to change to make cities better for women.
Visiting parks is an integral part of everyday life, reflecting the vital social, health and recreational role parks play in towns and cities. Parks have numerous benefits for health and wellbeing yet concerns about safety can constrain women and girls’ use and experience of them.
This Standard is a set of principles for managing public park spaces in ways that prioritise women and girls’ safety.
What does a #city look like from Her perspective? How can designs/plans respond to a #woman’s experience?
Gender Equal Cities, URBACT’s new initiative, seeks to highlight ways in which cities are driving change to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality.
Urban redevelopment in India over recent decades has had particular implications for women. Cities such as New Delhi have become sites for experimentation, autonomy and aspiration for women.
The proposal is to reclaim women’s right to the city through the recontextualisation of their public spaces which have been lost or need to be developed in urbanised India.
This workshop will focus on two basic elements related to gender equity and the design of recreation facilities.
COMING SOON – A practical tool for organizations to identify strengths and opportunities to promote equity.
The guidelines focus on three key enablers: Facility Planning and Design, Maximising Use (i.e., culture, programing, and Policy to Drive Change.
This document explores the benefits of universal washrooms and change rooms and their provision in community and recreation facilities.
