GENDER AND DESIGN

Also called 'Sex of Design'. Even though this course was mostly focused on architectural practices and how that is a male-dominated arena, there were so many other conversations in class about minority communities and how they situate themselves in different spaces if they are given the agency and freedom at all that is.
The one conversation which will probably stay with me for a very long time was when my professor asked us all to name a female architect. Simple questions, everyone managed to name one or google a name quickly, but nobody thought of our professors. These women who are changing how we see the world and making us grow like never before and nobody thought of naming them in a class of almost 50 people. It emphasized for me how no matter how 'woke' I think I am, I too could very much be a part of the problem I'm so vocal against if I don't constantly pay attention. For me this one question highlighted how talent right in front of our eyes goes unnoticed and underappreciated and I as a woman only added to the ignorance.

GENDER AND DESIGN: Work

A part of the brief said

"The objective of this assignment is to turn a feminist lens onto the space and the idea of the home that you are an intimate part of. How does patriarchy, without being named and discussed overtly at home, gender the way your home comes to be experienced by you/r various family members? Are there ways (particularly spatial here) in which it is re-affirmed and instilled? Are there ways in which it is subverted?"

All I could think about was everything that screams classism, sexism and patriarchy in my house but because over the years I have realized I can't change how this household has worked for much longer compared to the years of my existence, I took the cowardly route to make a satire, or a parody, whatever one might want to label it as. Maybe through multiple parodies over time is how the workings of this house could potentially change.

GENDER AND DESIGN: Video

GENDER AND DESIGN

A part of the brief said

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