Gender Check: Bartlett UCL Lecture Series Fall 2014 #mustimprove
Last spring, we slapped the Bartlett UCL Lecture Series for having an extremely poorly gender-balanced podium.
This fall, it is slightly better with a 5/13 female guests.
The guests are:
(click on names for bios)
Liz Diller (Founder of Diller+Scofidio)
Benedetta Tagliabue (Founder of EMBT)
Tatiana Bilbao (Founder of Tatiana Bilbao Associats)
Lucy McRae (Architect & Ballerina)
Keller Easterling (Architect & Theorist)
– Almost there!
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the results of your gender check is not a slap in the face of these institutions but a slap in the face of the presumption that we should expect equal representation … I wonder what the underlying presumption is here? Is it that these institutions should shift their priority from architectural agenda/content towards the goal of equal gender representation via positive discrimination? (And why should they do this?) Or is the assumption that unequal representation implies a discriminatory bias against women? In either case, the presumption would be questionable and highly controversial.