Please note booking is required for this event and the confirmation of your booking will be required at the entrance.
Exhibition description:
FAME collective’s proposal of ‘practicing care through architecture’, curated through a decolonial feminist lens, acts as a shift in architecture research, design, and practice, for a need to benefit the marginalised and underrepresented in the architecture community and the wider society. This is an example of a model that can be used in the expanded field of architecture, to address wider societal issues and the entanglement of spatial and climate justice.
The themes within the exhibition provide tools to critically address and expand the field of architectural design practice for activism, justice, and equity for students, academics, and practitioners.
Providing examples of practicing care in architecture design through collaboration and network of support, for the climate and ecological emergency. Showcasing indigenous knowledge of practices of climate care and lived experiences of climate calamities, visualised in Nakshi Kantha textile (traditional Bengali diaspora embroidery technique), through a process of co-production of knowledge.
The themes of the exhibition also include co-designed exhibits highlighting the ‘pathways to success in architecture’, by delving into the narratives of the lived experiences of the barriers, from a FAME perspective. Bringing positive impact for those in the architecture community, affected by discrimination due to their race, class, and gender.
The exhibition and the participatory events are for students, educators, practitioners and policymakers in architecture. Inviting those in power to make a change in the practice of pedagogy and in professional practice, at the policy level, within architecture institutions.
The exhibition facilitates a series of participatory events using textiles to activate conversations and creating a platform for an equitable, safe space to generate collaborative networks between educators, practitioners, and students of architecture.
