| Past Events
Islington Women's Design Group meeting, 2nd July 2008, 2-4pm
A meeting of the Islington Women’s Design Group on the issue of lapdancing.
Sandrine Leveque, Advocacy Officer with Object, spoke about their campaign to address the licensing of lapdancing clubs. Read more about Object's work at www.object.org.uk
Our Projcet Workers Denize LeDeatte & Hannah Berry also gave the group unpdates on the work of the EHRC-funded project for refugee women in Islington & the Manchester Women's Design Group. See current projects for more information.
More on the campaign to reform lapdance club licensing on our What's New page.
Manchester Women’s Design Group presents: The Changing Shape of Gender and Architectural Space. A lecture and workshop with Dr Jos Boys & Katie Lloyd Thomas on Friday 28th March 2008, 5-8pm, University of Manchester.
In the last 40 years, as architectural approaches have evolved, so have the ways we think about gender and the built environment. The speakers will compare and contrast some of the ideas and work of Matrix feminist architects’ practice (1979-1995) of which Jos Boys was a co-founder, with the current work of ‘taking place’, of which both women are members. They will explore how changes in women’s lives over this period link to changing feminist and architectural approaches. The workshop will focus on how, as practitioners, residents and activists, we can keep up the momentum for creative and constructive developments in spatial design, to benefit the different women who inhabit Britain’s cities in the 21st century.
Dr Jos Boys is an artist and design tutor with a background in architecture and a particular interest in disability and social exclusion and co-author of the key 1984 text ‘Making Space: women and the man-made environment’.
Katie Lloyd Thomas is lecturer and architectural researcher concerned with drawing, text, materials and feminism, and memebr of ‘ taking place ’ www.takingplace.org.uk
Report will be available soon
Islington Women's Design Group Safety on Our Streets Event 26th February at Tindlemanor
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, (responsible for crime reduction and security) has admitted that she does not feel safe walking the streets of London late at night….. And she has a bodyguard!
A discussion on what can be done to improve safety on our streets, from 10.15am - 1.30pm. Speakers from London Borough of Islington & FinFuture and practical demonstration from Sites UK.
Premises Issues for the Voluntary Sector- Information Day: 18th November 2006, 10.30am-3pm
Women’s Design Service recently completed a piece of work for Islington Voluntary Action Council and also for Kensington and Chelsea Social Council on premises issues for the voluntary sector in those boroughs. We are also aware through the Women’s Resource Centre’s “Why Women” campaign of the serious issues facing the women’s sector in terms of core funding which of course affects the affordability of premises.
At the same time there seem to be a number of initiatives seeking to address these issues; the Change-up programme, the Government’s commitment to transfer assets from local authorities to the voluntary sector, the Big Lottery’s Community Buildings programme etc
We therefore held an information day on Saturday 18th November, 10.30- 3.00pm, with speakers from IVAC, WRC, Community Matters, Ethical Property Foundation and London Rebuilding Society. There was also opportunity for discussion around organisations wanting to put in joint bids to the Lottery or look at other ways of improving their premises situations. Download event report (Word doc 53kb)
Alternatives: Gender, Community & Regeneration - 11th November 2006
A Liquid Culture day forum with workshops for those working or interested in gender & urban regeneration. Included a workshop run by Women's Design Service and Women's Environmental Network on gender & the environment. Organised by Liquid Culture: http://liquidculture.eu
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