La mujer en el patrimonio industrial. Recorridos de turismo sostenible

This paper describes the innovative work that has led to the publication of the architectural and tourist-cultural guide MoMoWo. Women Architecture & Design Itineraries across Europe. The guide is one of the main results of the four-year European project MoMoWo Women's creativity since the Modern Movement, co-funded by the programme Creative Europe and devoted to women in construction, a sector in which the traditionally invisible female gender has encountered more difficulties than in others. The itineraries have been developed with the aim of disseminating the work done by women and spreading more information on the accessibility of the area, the buildings and the works created by women. Through sustainable mobility on foot, by bicycle or public transport, several tourist routes have been planned that are representative on the characteristics of the city and that recreate a sort of open-air museum defined, among other things, by reused buildings. Within the guide, the city that has most enhanced its industrial identity is Turin. It was the archetypal industrial city, but in recent decades it has become one of those European cities that has significantly changed its urban landscape. The third itinerary of the Turin section leads to the rediscovery of this industrial heritage transformed by the women designers into a path that includes relevant symbols for the city such as the Thermal Power District Heating Plant, the “Toolbox” and the Fonderie Limone. The combination of industrial heritage and women designers is also present in the other cities of the guide, which give a valuable research contribution. Defining markets as workplaces and therefore part of the industrial heritage, the incredible recovery example of the Saint Catherine’s Market in Barcelona is reported, as well as the Underdogs Art Store located in the Mercado da Ribera in Lisbon, or even the Market Hall Ceiling Painting in Rotterdam. Mention should be added to the project for the D’Orsay Museum in Paris.