Women's Right to the City: Urban Interventions and Feminist Imaginaries in the Public Space of Santiago de Chile (8M 2019-8M 2020)

The historically masculine conception of the city has generated an unequal relationship between people and their urban context according to gender. This produces an invisibility of women in public space, limiting their participation and therefore their right to the city. However, feminist organizations in Chile have stressed this reality through urban interventions that propose an urban imaginary from feminism. These practices have gained strength since March 2019, after a year marked by feminist student mobilizations and then by the Chilean social revolt that began in October of that year. This research seeks to identify and typify the feminist urban interventions organized in the public space of Greater Santiago between March 8, 2019 and March 8, 2020, in order to analyze their relationship with urban imaginaries and their ability to call for women's right to the city. The results show historical trends in the way of intervening the city, as well as new forms associated with the use of technologies. A common element in the interventions is the use of female names, symbols and bodies, which question the exclusion of women in the urban imaginary.