Speaker: Jos Boys

Transformations: Action on Equity, brought together international and Australian speakers who are actively creating new futures for the built environment professions and the communities they serve. It provides an opportunity to learn from leading practitioners and academics, to share ideas with colleagues and to enhance your knowledge of the gender equity in the built environment professions and practice.

Transformations was a collaboration between Parlour and the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, 14 & 15 November, 2020. It was convened by Justine Cark, Julie Willis and Anna Hurliman.

In this session Dr Jos Boys asks how is bodily difference made concrete in specific and inequitable ways in architectural processes? How can we unravel the social, spatial and material practices that turn ordinary difference into differentiation and inequality?

Discussing the work of Matrix and the Disordinary Architecture Project, Jos argues that architecture must make transformative social, spatial and material justice a core part of its responsibilities.

Please refer to the Parlour website for the learning objectives associated with the symposium. These relate to the Practice Management Unit of Competency in the Australian National Standard of Competency for Architects.

Please respond to the follow ing questions to earn 1 formal point of CPD for this 1 hour session.