Title: Gender and Space in Architecture: Public Toilets, Kitchens, and the Struggle for Equality Author: Minghui Xu Year: […]
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Title: Belonging in Ephemerality: How can architecture create belonging for displaced women? Author: Jodie Yew Year: 2025 Abstract: […]
Title: The Feminist Call: Care Through Cooperation Author: Saorla Hanley Year: 2025 Abstract: The Feminist Call, an imagined […]
Title: Rethinking Our Social Housing: An intersectional feminist analysis of UK social housing design Author: Saorla Hanley Year: […]
Title: Design for the Cthulucene: Common Land, Vulnerability and Imagination in Famagusta Author: William Lawrence Year: 2025 Abstract: […]
Title: The Political Potency of the Home – a study of feminist perspectives, ideologies, and approaches. Author: Ellie […]
Title: Where We Belong. How the queer and transgender spatial experience is framed by gender and heteronormative ideals. […]
Title: The Purple Paperclip Exhibition Date: 24th June 2022 Alongside MatriArch, the Feminist School of Architecture hosted ‘The […]
Keren Obiuzu, MAUD Dissertation, 2020. The aim of this design thesis is to research how urban design practitioners can deploy design methods to support Makoko community in building resilience, with a deeper focus on the social urban issues faced by the community.
Title: Educator, Activist, Politician Part of: Field: Agency and the Praxis of Activism. Volume 3 (1), pp.7-20 Authors: […]
Sarah Joyce, PhD Thesis, 2018. Birth spaces designed by architects are a relevantly recent invention in the history of childbirth. Sarah’s work critiques the production of such spaces via regulation and […]
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Xiaohui Chen, MAUD Dissertation, 2020. This paper considers how power will be resisted and reconstructed through critical spatial practices. It draws on the experiences of Hong Kong foreign domestic workers (FDWs), focuses on the […]
Joe McKibben, MArch Design Project, 2018. The Paternal Urban Base is a childcare centre aimed at fathers that focuses on play and risk, providing a platform for men to take on primary care roles in a drive for a more gender equal society.
Laura Jamieson, MArch Dissertation, 2020. As one of the few remaining gender-segregated spaces the public toilet represents a site of conflict in which gender expression is policed. In this essay, the author examines the potential conflicts and alliances between gendered bodies in public toilets within The United Kingdom.
Jessica Raynsford, MArch Dissertation, 2021. With the commercial benefits of diversity becoming increasingly acknowledged, statistics show that architecture in the UK is still a predominantly white, male profession.
Elizabeth Hardie, Design Project, 2021. This visual manifesto looks at the male privileged lens through which housing has been designed. There is a gendered and non inclusive precedent to housing design that is a prerequisite in our expectations of home.
Cressy Lopez, MArch Dissertation, 2018. The study began as an investigation borne out of the author’s own social conditioning. Embracing an identity within a society polluted exploring what it means to be a feminist catholic woman.