A Gendered Profession: Ruth Morrow and James Sloane
5:00pm - 6:00pm /
Thursday 9th February 2017
/ Venue: Budden Lecture Theatre Architecture
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Sandy Britton
- Admission: Free Admission
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Ruth Morrow is Professor of Architecture at Queen’s University Belfast, the only female Professor of Architecture on the island of Ireland, to date.
James Soane is an architect and teacher, setting up Project Orange with his husband in 1997. He is also Director of Critical Practice at the new London School of Architecture.
For a profession that claims to be so concerned with the needs, not only of architecture but also of society - namely ‘better buildings, communities and the environment’ - the continuing gender imbalance in architectural education and practice is a difficult subject. Difficult, because it’s been stagnant for some thirty years. Which is precisely why James Benedict Brown (De Montfort University), Harriet Harriss (Royal College of Art), Ruth Morrow (Queens University Belfast) and James Soane (London School of Architecture) decided to work together to explore, curate and propose possible professional and pedagogic solutions.
In this event Ruth Morrow and James Soane will discuss their recent collaboration on the book they helped co-author: ‘A Gendered Profession’. By openly discussing their own connection to the book they hope to provoke debate and reflection in real time with the audience.... one step towards resolving our own internal inequalities.
James Soane is an architect and teacher, setting up Project Orange with his husband in 1997. He is also Director of Critical Practice at the new London School of Architecture.
For a profession that claims to be so concerned with the needs, not only of architecture but also of society - namely ‘better buildings, communities and the environment’ - the continuing gender imbalance in architectural education and practice is a difficult subject. Difficult, because it’s been stagnant for some thirty years. Which is precisely why James Benedict Brown (De Montfort University), Harriet Harriss (Royal College of Art), Ruth Morrow (Queens University Belfast) and James Soane (London School of Architecture) decided to work together to explore, curate and propose possible professional and pedagogic solutions.
In this event Ruth Morrow and James Soane will discuss their recent collaboration on the book they helped co-author: ‘A Gendered Profession’. By openly discussing their own connection to the book they hope to provoke debate and reflection in real time with the audience.... one step towards resolving our own internal inequalities.