Workaround: A conversation with Architecture + Women

11 August, 2018

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Parlour Super Salon – a conversation with Architecture + Women • NZ

As a part of WORKAROUND and organised by RMIT Design Hub, Super Salon brings Australia’s Parlour and Architecture + Women • New Zealand together in a public conversation. Key representatives of the two groups will reflect on five years of intense action, and will project forward to future plans. With an emphasis on sharing ideas, experience, strategies and tactics, the loosely structured conversation will expand out into interactive engagement with the audience.

Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation working for gender equity in architecture and the built environment, which provides a ‘space to speak’. Parlour provides places for active exchange and discussion, online and off. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways.

Architecture + Women • NZ has two core aims. First, visibility: to help make visible the hard work of women in architecture. Second, inclusiveness: to remove or reduce as many barriers as possible (including those springing from class, religion, culture, sexual orientation). A + W • NZ works from the strong platform of gender for the benefit of all those who work in architecture.

Founded in 2011 and 2012 respectively, A+W • NZ and Parlour are among the earliest of the current wave of international organisations acting for greater gender equity in architecture.

Date and time: Saturday 11 August 2018, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm AEST

Location: RMIT Design Hub, Victoria Street, Carlton, VIC 3000, Australia

Schedule

Conversation, 12 – 2PM – Justine Clark, Gill Matthewson, Divya Purushotham, Lynda Simmons and Naomi Stead

Please register here.

About WORKAROUND

WORKAROUND engages with a movement of women focused on advocacy and activism within an expanded field of architecture. Each of these practitioners works towards positive change in the built environment and its surrounding cultures. WORKAROUND is an online broadcast and a program of live events. Across fourteen daily episodes, fourteen Australian practitioners each present a critique, conversation, interview, workshop or performance that articulates their strategies and workarounds and reflects on their activist practice.