Listen, talk, repeat: women’s journey through architecture and environmental consciousness
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2024.1327925
Asserting that architecture is political is an acknowledgment that the design of form and space is founded on uneven relationships of power. At the same time, two states that are intrinsically apolitical—gender and climate—have become subject to intense socio-political polarization. While identifying these artificially imposed divides does not equate to their endorsement, the goal here is not to dismantle them. The aim is to elucidate how harnessing these differences helps a more sustainable built environment. This study delves into a practical approach, a mindset, embodied in the three-step process of “listen, talk, repeat”. This process frames a discourse on gender differences without victimization or criminalization of built space, societal systems, communities or their members. (...)