Social Cartographies of the City, from a Gender, Care and Feminism Perspective

The participatory design process is a tool for inclusion. From a care perspective, social participation acquires a new meaning to combat social injustices. Social participation requires diverse tools, and social cartographies take an important role, as they allow knowing and understanding the dynamics, imaginaries and interactions of users with the territory and space. Social cartography allows a multidimensional knowledge construction process. Through mapping, lived experiences emerge. Feminist epistemology joins with "other" epistemologies that claim different processes of production and valorization of knowledge, also about the territory. It implies building new instruments and new practices, based on recognizing that "as a cognitive organism there is our whole body, not just the mind. This manuscript aims to show the application of the social cartography methodology, analyze and interpret its result, and generate new questions, as an input for decision-making in city planning and design, through a lens of gender, care and feminism.