Stree(T) Scape - MCGM Street Labs

Creating a street that highlights the women safety

Location

Girgaon, Mumbai

Project Size

3.54 KM Stretch

Client

Mumbai Street Labs Competition | MCGM I WRI

Team

StudioPOD Design Pvt.Ltd

Services

Urban Design, Transport Planning

Sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces are becoming a reality that women and girls around the world have to accept and live with. Women and girls experience and fear various types of sexual violence in public spaces, from unwanted sexual remarks and touching to rape and femicide. It happens on streets, in and around public transportation, schools and workplaces, in public parks and within residential neighbourhoods.

The proposal aims to highlight and address this very grave issue present in and around our streets and public spaces today. This was the main feature that was highlighted when we visited the site. Although violence recognized as a human rights violation, violence against women and girls, especially sexual harassment in public spaces, remains a largely neglected issue, with few laws, policies, urban guidelines, design interventions to prevent and address it. The proposal aims at creating new bold strategies and ideas that try and resolve women safety within the existing context of the M.S.Ali road through street design. The proposal explored solutions that can be placed today and some that will be developed in time as this street undergoes redevelopment and landuse change.