Feminist Academy for Crafts, Architecture & DEsign (FACADe)

type. design project (group work)

stage. five

date. april 2022

description. ​

Initially, in groups we had to create principles and manifestos for our transdisciplinary practices. We also had to consider the working spaces we had in previous practices, as well as what our current and ideal work spaces look like. Within these newly formed practices the brief was to design spaces to study Architecture for a small Feminist School of Architecture, PRAXXIS! The school would stay connected to the MSA but will be within and around the Pankhurst Centre and act as a small addition/building reuse/adaptation kept at a strategic scale so that drawing and designing feminist details would be more straightforward. Our small School of Architecture had to be feminist and be socially motivated in responding to issues of social justice and spatial inequity. Human relationships to the proposals had to consider a full exploration of the spatial potential of the complex issues of sharing internal and external learning and social spaces across different groups of people of different stages of study, from different backgrounds and with varied attitudes plus considering the fundamental intricacies of feminisms and equity. We had to also create new learning criteria in response to our current Arb/RIBA criteria but for a Feminist approach to becoming an Architect.