Thesis: Li Yang
Li Yang
Li Yang
Li Yang
Li Yang
A Home for Self-Determination: Feminist Architecture for Unhoused Women in Struggle
This thesis project proposes and visualizes a self-determination community for unhoused women in struggle. Women of this community are an inclusive category embracing all the discriminated people along the axis of gender, race, and class. By cooperating with predecessors in multidisciplinary fields struggling to fight for unhoused women's rights and independence, this self-determination community will reach autonomy with a self-sustainable development. All the community participants will fight in solidarity to free the unhoused women from the chronic unhoused loop derived from the feminization of poverty. This program has no victim subjects but fighters pursuing a better living environment with dignity and self-esteem.
-
Li Yang -
Li Yang Architecture has its voice in this self-determination community through social and spatial justice involvement. By visualizing the community's architectural scenarios, the fighting movements and outcomes for unhoused women's rights and independence are visually conspicuous, which can foster a collective imagination and understanding of these actions.
-
Li Yang -
Li Yang The women's self-determination community will be designed under community-based land stewardship. As a platform for the community's cooperative business, the Creative Pod Corridor, with a temporary module system as the primary structure, will be integrated into the permanent residential program systems where women struggling with the feminization of poverty can experience steady and consistent self-growth progress. The community will become a Home for all the participants, nourishing a sense of belonging between the unhoused women and the property, the land, the neighbors, and their own life. The proof-of-concept design is based in Philadelphia, where related movements are in full swing.
-