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The Bartlett Gender and Urban Equalities Symposium
08 March 2023, 10:00 am–4:30 pm
Join us on International Women’s Day 2023 for a one-day online symposium exploring gender in urban spaces and communities worldwide.
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The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
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.
This public event is hosted by The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment.
We warmly invite you to join any or all of the sessions throughout the day.
Event programme
Women in the City
10:00-11:00am GMT
Our panel of speakers will discuss key works by artists and architects, and 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.
Speakers:
Dr Hanna Baumann, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
Beth Hughes, Curator, Arts Council Collection
Women Writing Architecture
11:15am-12:15pm GMT
This panel discussion will explore how women participate in architectural culture. We will reflect on two projects from ETH Zurich's Department for Architecture, aiming to understand architectural history as experienced and shaped by marginalised groups, and providing insight into a new realm where women speak up.
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
Helen Thomas, Researcher and Leader of Women Writing Architecture
Women and the Trust Penalty
2:00-3:00pm GMT
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.
Speaker:
Dr Antoine Vernet, Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
Women, Life, Freedom
3:15-4:30pm GMT
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.
Speakers:
Anonymous collective of Iranian students, academics and scholars from The Bartlett School of Architecture and beyond, with an introduction by Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami
If you have any questions or accessibility requirements, please contact our events team at a.daskalaki@ucl.ac.uk
About the Speakers
Sara Shafiei
Vice-Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
Sara Shafiei is Vice-Dean Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, and Associate Professor at The Bartlett. She is co-creator of Bartlett Alternative; a collective curriculum hub, that celebrates and amplifies underrepresented voices, narratives, and agendas, through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens.
More about Sara ShafieiDr Hanna Baumann
Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity
Dr Hanna Baumann is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity. Her work is concerned with questions of urban exclusion and participation. A recent four-year project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examined the role of infrastructures and public services in shaping the urban participation of non-citizens in Beirut, London and Berlin. Hanna frequently uses participatory and creative research methods, including collaborations with artists and designers.
More about Dr Hanna BaumannBeth Hughes
Curator and researcher
Beth Hughes is an independent Curator and Researcher, based in London. In a freelance capacity she is part of Lubaina Himid’s team as Curator and Creative Producer and is the contemporary art Curator at Salisbury Cathedral. Formally she was Curator at Arts Council Collection for almost eight years, where she was responsible for the care and research of the non-sculptural holdings as well as overseeing the loans programme and supporting organisations around the country to borrow from the Collection. Beth’s curatorial practice balances the fundamental belief in the importance and power of public art collections with a dedicated commitment to collaboration and access. She has curated a wide range of exhibitions including Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection, the Grayson Perry tapestry series, The Vanity of Small Differences and Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City with Lubaina Himid CBE.
Dr Sol Perez Martinez
Architect and researcher at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
Dr Sol Pérez-Martínez is an architect and researcher teaching at the MSc Learning Environments of The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. She holds a PhD and MA in Architectural History from the Bartlett, and an Architecture professional degree and MA from Chile. Currently, she researches Latin-American women writing architecture at ETH Zürich.
More about Dr Sol Perez MartinezDr Anne Hultzsch
Architectural historian at ETH Zurich
Dr Anne Hultzsch is an architectural historian and leads the ERC-funded group ‘Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900’ at ETH Zurich. She did her PhD at the Bartlett, UCL, and a postdoc at AHO, Oslo. Her research focuses on architecture and gender, print cultures, perception, and travel in the 18th and 19th centuries.
More about Dr Anne HultzschHelen Thomas
Architect, writer, and publisher
Helen Thomas is an architect, writer, and publisher based in London and Zurich. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex. Some of her recent publications include Architecture in Islamic Countries, 2023; The Hybrid Practitioner, 2022; Extracts: Women Writing Architecture, 2021; Architecture through Drawing, 2019; Drawing Architecture, 2018. Together with Emilie Appercé, she is the editor of Women Writing Architecture.
More about Helen ThomasDr Antoine Vernet
Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction
Dr Antoine Vernet is Associate Professor in Management in The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. His research interests focus on organizational design and workplace inequalities using social network analysis.
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