Kathleen Chakraborty – “Expanding Agency: Researching the Diversity of Women’s Contributions to the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture”? | 21 April, 15h30

21 April, 15h30

Kathleen Chakraborty – “Expanding Agency: Researching the Diversity of Women’s Contributions to the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture”? | 21 April, 15h30

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Expanding Agency is a five year research project funded by the European Research Council.  We are researching the role that shelter magazines and other journalism written by and targeted at women played in the global dissemination of modern architecture and design between 1920 and 1970, as well as the contributions made by women-owned design businesses like Svenskt Tenn.  Other aspects of the projects examine the impact that women had as real estate developers and as institution builders, a category that includes philanthropy, when it relates to the establishment of institutions like the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India.  Another aspect of the project is the focus on African American architectural patronage, especially as manifested in the campus buildings of historically Black colleges and universities.  Preliminary findings suggest that, especially in the United States, reassessing the role of female and African American consumers and clients will generate a more nuanced story that goes further to explaining the appearance of the built environment than do narratives that concentrate on reconstructing professional architectural culture.

Zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98897873

Architecture Research: Theory, History and Practice

The seminars are a new research collaboration between the Manchester School of Architecture, University of Ljubljana and Lusófona University (Porto and Lisbon). The online sessions comprising talks about ongoing research followed by questions and discussion are open access. The seminars aim to encourage academic exchange between researchers and postgraduate students working in cognate areas. The intention of the project is to build an international network of shared interest across the architectural sector, to think critically and philosophically about architecture, design and research to foster new forms of research enquiry.