Atelier de la traversée, A Workshop to Reflect on a Possible Mediation Between Affective and Political Atmospheres

As part of my doctoral research, I organized Atelier de la traversée workshop in Brussels, which involved 12 women in individual exploration of their relationship with public spaces. My aim was to investigate from up close some gendered urban experi- ences and to let emerge atmosphere of spatial inclusion or exclusion. In this paper, I will focus on a moment in the workshop, when women experienced space through the body and express their affective state through a creative medium. This phase produced images, audio, poems that helped me (at least to try) to enter into some atmospheric realities and to reflect on their possible both affective and political meanings.