UrbanistasNW are excited to kick 2021 with a bang! We are hosting our second SHEbuild series of talks aiming to tackle some of the issues/ aspirations we highlighted in our 1st Year Manifesto:

“Our aspiration is to shape our environment into a more equitable and diverse arena, creating a professional landscape that reacts to and reflects the successes and challenges we face. Current statistics confirm a lack of diversity, this perpetuates a failure to embrace potential significant opportunities and creativity.

We want to sharpen the focus on the NW, shining a light on sources of inspiration that are local to us, while also providing a support system for new generations of professional women to flourish within our industry. We need to have conversations pertinent to us, that are less London centric that focus in on how we define our own professional and cultural development.”

The SHEbuild will host 3 talks over 3 weeks in January in the aim to start the year by empowering everyone to set their own targets and ambitions for the year ahead. We have purposely chosen 3 speakers from 3 key organisations which are making a change throughout the system- from education to policy to practice. We are proud and honoured to host:

14th January- Lifa Zvimbande- Regional Director RIBA North West.

Lifa has only been with the RIBA since April 2020 but has already begun making some drastic changes to change the way in which the RIBA is perceived and to make decision making more collaborative and inclusive. Further to the BLM movement Lifa has launched an initiative ‘EDI’ Equity- Diversity- Inclusion, a group ensuring the voices of all communities are heard- LGBTQ, BAME, disabilities, gender.

There are 3 Eventbrite links to the 3 events- so please sign up individually. We are really looking forward to this and hoping to give everyone an empowering start to 2021!!

Please send this around your offices and share with others. These topics need to be discussed/ debated in the wider community at all levels.