Adjunct professor Sarah Rafson will present at Transformations : Action on Equity at the University of Melbourne in Australia on Friday 15 November. The symposium features two days of lively, incisive, and necessary exchange on gender equity and the built environment professions. The event welcomes an extraordinary group of researchers, professionals, and activists who are challenging and changing the way we think about gender in the built environment.
Rafson will participate in the session titled “Challenging the canon – rewriting history” featuring Jude Barber (Voices of Experience, Collective Architecture, Scotland), Madhavi Desai (India), and Karen Burns (Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, MSD). Rafson will share her work from the Now What?! exhibition and ArchiteXX. The session asks: How and why do we recover the histories of women’s participation in the built environment? What barriers, assumptions, and disciplinary norms are challenged by rewriting built environment histories?
Visit the conference website for more information, as well as the full list of speakers and the conference program.