There’s no gender equity on a dead planet.
“Architecture as a discipline can’t wean itself off disposable labour… the problem is so big and it is not just prevalent in Singapore. Architecture often seeks the cheapest labour for the highest profit margin… we can always justify why labour has to be cheaper so the building will be cheaper, which in turn, affects rents and livelihoods… it’s a cruel cycle.”
Feminist thinking can support the needed shift towards true sustainability. “You wouldn’t buy a very cheap material because you know that somebody’s been undercut; you would have a conscience. It comes naturally.”
“In a place like Asia where there’s not such a big push from the top for sustainability, it’s very important to start at the base with many people who strongly believe in the cause, such that it becomes a big enough mass to push the agenda forward. This personal capacity and commitment to sustainable practices is intrinsic to feminism.”
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https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/accumulation/378156/climatic-privilege-and-transnational-labor-in-singapore/
https://archiparlour.org/
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https://time.com/5786710/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality
https://archiparlour.org/parlour-lessons/
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https://archiparlour.org/six-myths-about-women-and-architecture/
Lilian Chee is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster. Her research connects embodied experience and affective evidence with architectural representation and feminist politics. Her award-winning film collaboration 03-FLATS (2014) has been screened in 16 major cities. Chee is on the editorial boards of Architectural Theory Review and Australian Feminist Studies. Her current book projects are Architecture and Affect (Routledge); Remote Practices (Lund Humphries); and Art in Public Space (URA, Singapore). Chee’s forthcoming project looks at home-based work practices and the subsequent transformation of public and domestic spaces.
Justine Clark is an architectural editor, writer, researcher, advisor and advocate. She is a co-founder of Parlour (gender, equity, architecture), established the Parlour website, and leads the organisation’s event and advocacy programmes. Clark consults for the built environment organisations, practices and universities on a broad range of projects, events and strategies. Active in public discussions of architecture, she has organised many events, curated exhibitions and sat on national and international juries. Her work has won awards for architecture in the media and her broader contribution to the profession was recognised in 2015 with the Marion Mahony Prize. Clark is a former editor of Architecture Australia. Her writing appears in both scholarly and professional press, on topics including gender and architecture, architectural criticism, architectural drawing and post-war modernism. She is co-author, with Dr Paul Walker, of the book Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern (2000). Clark is special advisor to the Architects Champions of Change, and an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Naomi Stead is a Professor of Architecture at Monash University, Australia, where she was Head of Department from 2018 to 2020. She is a past President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand. Her research interests lie in architecture’s cultures of re/production, mediation, and reception. She is an award- winning architecture critic, having written more than 50 commissioned feature and review articles, and is presently a columnist for the online journal Places, where she writes essays on concepts and mythologies within and without architecture. She is also the architecture critic for The Saturday Paper. She is editor or co-editor of a number of books, including Semi-detached: Writing, representation and criticism in architecture (Uro, 2012); with Janina Gosseye and Deborah van der Plaat, Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019); with Hélène Frichot, Writing Architectures: Fictocritical Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2020); and most recently with Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, and Megan Patty, After The Australian Ugliness (National Gallery of Victoria and Thames & Hudson, Melbourne, 2021). Stead was the leader of the Australian Research Council (ARC) project “Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership”, which led to the co-founding (with Justine Clark and others) of Parlour. Her current ARC project explores the work-related well-being of architects and architecture students, under the title “Architectural Work Cultures: professional identity, education and well-being”. This is a collaboration with Maryam Gusheh, Julie Wolfram Cox, Kirsten Orr, Brian Cooper, Byron Kinnaird, and an array of excellent research assistants.
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