Exhibition: Feminist Practices
12 – 23 October 2009
Opening at 6pm, Friday 16 October 2009
Atrium Annex Gallery
1st Floor
Architecture Building
The University of Melbourne
Gallery opening hours: 8:00am - 6:00pm, Monday to Friday
12 women architects investigating third wave feminism
Meghal Arya courtyards
Lori Brown politicizing the female body
Ronit Eisenbach placing space: architecture, action, dimension
Özlem Erdogdu Erkarslan from detached house to apartment: gender roles in housing
Liza Fior barking town square
Cynthia Hammond breathing spaces
Kyna Leski dream house
Janet McGaw urban threads
Margarita McGrath ghost fishing
Julieanna Preston blaze
Kim Steele home grown
Meghan Walsh axismunde brazil studio
Lois Weinthal interior-scapes
Feminism has entered its third wave, somewhat stealthily, unwilling to disappear as the agendas of its first wave (suffrage) and second wave (equal opportunity) appear to many to have been fulfilled. The aims of the third wave are no longer singular, having broadened to address multiple issues in the wake of post-structural critique. For feminist architects issues include the gendered body as a mediator of spatial experience, the intersection of gender with other forms of marginalities including race, class, and poverty, critiques of hierarchies of authorship (through collaboration) and critiques of traditional modes of practice that essentialise site and privilege object-making over process and other sensory experiences. This exhibition includes the work of 14 female architects from around the globe and has been travelling around the United States since April 2008.