"We wanted to shake up the way people think about feminism in the built environment," says Bryony Roberts, an architect and one of the project's cofounders. "I think a lot of the discussion about that topic focuses on issues of representation, and this idea that if you just put enough people who identify as women in certain positions, then that will address any kind of gender inequities... We were interested in an approach to feminism that is about ways of making and ways of knowing."
The designers looked to weaving, sewing, and mending-all feminized crafts-to inform the site's design rather than "at times, reductive nature of the index and its rule lines, grids, and sans-serif text," says Julie Cho, a cofounder of the women-led graphic studio Omnivore, which designed the site.
Feminist Spatial Practices (FSP) is an online archive that appears as a collage of organic shapes and colorful squares, inviting users to explore feminist collectives, projects, and histories. It challenges traditional views of feminism in design.
The team behind FSP intentionally looked beyond the expectations Big Tech has created for user experiences, reflecting the message of the archive: that there are many ways to exist in and move through the world.
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