POSTPONED: CRUNCH: Waves: Feminist Intersections in Architecture

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed.

Feminism has been described as coming in ‘waves’. Despite contentions, this can be helpful as it allows a repeat to also be a ‘re-turn’ (Barad, 2014) to previously marginalised or overlooked aspects of feminist concern, creating new moments in which previously underrepresented voices can find their platform and place.  

This CRUNCH event will host a roundtable on feminist intersectional ethics, activism and practice, with speakers from across The Bartlett School of Architecture who have initiated intersectional feminist projects. The roundtable will focus on the themes of ‘waves’ in a movement, revising dated feminism, and intersecting as dating and/or encountering. 

Participants will be encouraged to think differently together in regard to architectural pedagogy and practice around issues concerning intersectional, queer and trans feminism.   

This event is part of the flagship CRUNCH Series at The Bartlett School of Architecture, replacing the International Lecture Series.

Please note this event is first-come, first-served and is limited capacity. 

Speaker biographies

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows (she/her) is an architect, academic and design practice researcher undertaking her PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Tumpa is also the founder of FAME collective (Female Architects of Minority Ethnic). Her recently written research book titled: Exposing the Barriers in Architecture from a FAME Perspective, and its research contents were exhibited at RIBA London in 2024. The research and exhibition amplify the underrepresented voices in architecture. 

Tumpa’s work utilises embodied architectural practice through an intersectional feminist lens, using architecture practice as an active agent of socio-spatial decolonisation for environmental, climate and spatial justice. Her design research and creative practice are tools for activism. 

Neba Sere  (she/her) is an architect, lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and co-director of Black Females in Architecture. She led design and construction projects with young people at Build Up Foundation and was one of six young trustees of the Architecture Foundation. Her interest lies in understanding the process of decolonising the architecture profession and thus the built environment, specifically looking at how citizen-led initiatives can have a long-term impact on the spaces we inhabit and involving young communities in the regeneration process of their city through advocacy and outreach. 

Dr Lo Marshall (they/them) is a researcher and educator whose work takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to gender, sexuality and cities, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ peoples' lives and spaces in London. Lo is Ethics Co-Director at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, co-organises B.Queer (the Bartlett's LGBTQIA+ network for staff, students and allies) and won UCL’s Intersectional Inclusion Award in 2024. They were also named an Emerging Voice in Architecture as part of the London Festival of Architecture in 2020 and are a co-founder of education initiative, Queer Community College. 

Dr Torsten Lange (he/him) is a lecturer in cultural and architectural history at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In his PhD at The Bartlett (2015), he investigated architectural discourse and building production in late socialist East Germany. In addition to his teaching practice, he is currently working on a history of queer community infrastructures, focusing on the social and material dimensions of care in those spaces. He has edited Re-Framing Identities: Architecture’s Turn to History, 1970–1990 (with Ákos Moravánszky, 2017), Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism (with Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno, 2020), ARCH+ Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practices (guest edited with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Gabrielle Schaad, 2023), Care, gta papers no. 7 (with Gabrielle Schaad, 2023), and Archithese Reader: Critical Positions in Search of Postmodernity, 1971–1976 (with Gabrielle Schaad). 

Dr Polly Gould (she/her) is an artist and writer who shows with Danielle Arnaud. Polly works across media with an interest in extreme environments, collections and archives. Her book on the life and work of Edward Wilson Antarctica, Art and Archive, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. She is Associate Professor and Interim Programme Director of the Situated Practice MA programme at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. 

Jane Rendell (she/her) is Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Introducing concepts of ‘critical spatial practice’ and ‘site-writing’ through her authored books: The Architecture of Psychoanalysis (2017), Silver (2016), Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002); her co-edited collections include Reactivating the Social Condenser (2017), Critical Architecture (2007), Spatial Imagination (2005), The Unknown City (2001), Intersections (2000), Gender, Space, Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995). She leads the Bartlett’s Ethics Commission, with Dr David Roberts, and ‘The Ethics of Research Practice’, KNOW (Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality) with Dr Yael Padan.     

More information

Image: Compressed and rarefied air particles of sound waves, Popular Science Monthly Volume 13, 1878