Women, House Design and Domestic Space
London Women and Planning Forum Seminar
Wednesday 24th March 2010, 1.30 – 5.30
City Centre Seminar Room, Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London

This half-day seminar focuses on house design and domestic space from a gender perspective. Taking some recent reports and debates on housing space standards as a starting point, the event will consider the historical and contemporary involvement of women in house design, women’s changing needs with regard to domestic spaces, and the implications of a gender perspective when formulating housing and space standards policies.

Speakers:

• Yolande Barnes
  Director – Residential Research, Savills
  Yolande is Director of Research with Savills, the UK’s largest real estate services company, and is also a Director of Design for Homes, a not-for-profit company which champions the value of good residential design, planning and construction.
• Dr Elizabeth Darling
  Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Oxford Brookes University
  Elizabeth works on 20th century British architectural history with a particular interest in inter-war modernism, social housing, and gender.
• David Levitt
  Levitt Bernstein Associates
  Levitt Bernstein is an award-winning architectural practice with a progressive outlook towards design and the development process. David has expertise in the area of space standards and housing design.
• Anne Thorne
  Partner, Anne Thorne Architects Partnership
  Anne has worked as an architect for twenty five years, and has always focused on women’s use of the environment and their participation in its creation both as users and as designers.

Registration: Room 126, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS
The seminar is £25 and £10 for concessions. To reserve a place please contact the London Women and Planning Forum administrator, Evelyn Owen at e.owen@qmul.ac.uk or Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS.