Attending the Gender and Urban Equalities Symposium, promoted by the Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, March 8, 2023, presented as follows:
About this event
Explore the intersections of gender with cities, design, construction and communities through a series of interactive online sessions with leading thinkers from the built environment field.
10:00-11:00 Women in the City
Our panel of speakers will invite you to reflect on your own experiences of gender in urban spaces through a virtual snapshot tour of the exhibition ‘Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City’, curated by Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid CBE.
We will discuss key works by artists and architects including Sophie Calle, Tai Shani, Mona Hatoum, Magda Stawarska Beavan and the Matrix Collective, and discuss the role of art in raising awareness of gendered dimensions of the built environment.
Speakers: Dr Hanna Baumann, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity and Beth Hughes, Curator, Arts Council Collection
11:15-12:15 Women Writing Architecture
This panel discussion will explore how women participate in architectural culture, and reflect on two projects from ETH Zurich’s Department for Architecture:
ERC Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 (WoWA) explores architectural history beyond the production of buildings and aims to understand the past of the built environment as experienced and shaped by marginalised groups.
Created collaboratively, the online platform Women Writing Architecture (WWA) is offered as a resource for gathering texts, finding and supporting new writers, and offering insight into what is happening in the vivid realm where women speak up for themselves.
Speakers: Dr Sol Perez Martinez, Learning Environments MSc Module Leader, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, Dr Anne Hultzsch, Group Leader and Principal Investigator, Women Writing Architecture and Helen Thomas, Researcher and Leader of Women Writing Architecture.
2:00-3:00 Women and the Trust Penalty
This session will discuss why gender inequalities in the workplace are so hard to eradicate, despite targeted efforts to reduce them. We will explore some of the reasons why gender inequalities have proven so difficult to resolve, focusing on ongoing research showing evidence of a trust penalty arising from gender-status mismatch in the construction industry.
Speakers: Dr Antoine Vernet, Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
3:15-4:30 Women, Life, Freedom
Through collective readings from an anonymous diary entry, we will amplify the latest revolutionary women-led movements in Iran and focus on the female figure as a symbol of the movements.
This auditory experience will be complemented by a visual journey of photography, videography and documentation of protests, acting as a platform to amplify voices of female artists and writers based in Iran.
Speakers: Anonymous collective of Iranian students, academics and scholars from The Bartlett School of Architecture and beyond, with an introduction by Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami.