Parity Front
The Parity Front was established in July 2020 as an independent offshoot of the Parity Group. The main aim is to support the conversation beyond ETH to other schools, the profession and other disciplines. The main issues addressed include gender balance, representation, inclusion and harassment.
The Parity Group
The Parity Group is a fluid group of students, assistants and professors from the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich who meet to discuss issues around gender and diversity, organizing the yearly Parity Talks in March. Established in December 2014, the grassroots organization is centered around a core of about 20–30 people but counts anyone that shows up to a meeting as a member (even if it’s just once).
Womxn in Design
Womxn in Design (WiD) is a student run organization at Harvard Graduate School of Design committed to advancing gender equity in and through design. Led by womxn, but open to all, WiD works to make the design field more equitable and open in light of the historic under-representation of womxn in recognized leadership roles as well as design's critical need for diversity, collaboration, care, and re-centering marginalized voices.
Parity Board
To strengthen gender equality work at all levels of the department, a Parity Board was established by the Department of Architecture of the TU München at the end of 2019. It is to jointly develop goals and strategies for an equal-opportunities working environment at the TUM Department of Architecture. The initial goals are to anchor the department’s principles of equality and conduct continuous gender parity monitoring of the department, as well as achieve a clear institutional anchoring of the board.
The Parity Board is made up of members of the student body, junior staff, administration and faculty staff. It is currently an open body with no fixed number of members.
Drag Lab
The DRAG lab is a group of people studying, teaching or working at EPF Lausanne promoting parity and diversity in the architecture school through readings and discussions.
Gender Taskforce
The Gender Taskforce is a working group committed to improving gender equality and equity in architectural education based within the Koen Institute of the TU Graz.
Womxn in Design and Architecture
Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA) is a graduate student group formed in 2014 at Princeton University School of Architecture. Their annual conference celebrates the work and legacy of a pivotal architect or designer with contributions from international historians and scholars, in addition to artists, curators, and practitioners.
AAA Equality Collaborative
The AAA Equality Collaborative is an independent group of students and staff from the Aarhus School of Architecture staging discussions on Gender & Diversity in Architecture.
Querformat
Queer Group led by students at ETH Zurich’s Architecture Department, investigating the intersection between queerness and space.
Kittik
KITTIK is a collective created by a a group of assistants within existing hierarchies. They engage in online panels with external guests, roundtables with professors on working conditions, e.g., and are currently working in extending their reach and network with other institutions, schools of architecture, within universities of applied sciences.
Safe Space
Safe Space is an investigation on the meaning of diversity and representation in architecture, as well as the potentials of inclusive architectural education and practice in Norway. In public roundtable events with invited speakers, Safe Space Collective hosts conversations that cover topics from representation of minorities in the field, to housing discrimination, environmental injustice, and queer architectural practices.
Rebel Architette
A collective, open project raising awareness and promoting research and information around the recognition of the role of women architects – still too far from the spotlight – at the national and international levels. The ultimate aim of this project is to promote a heterogeneous and fair professional landscape where Women architects become reference figures for the new generations. By offering role models of excellence in the world of architecture to young female and male students, as well as juries, academics, organizers of exhibitions, and journalists, we want to guarantee a more inclusive and equal view of the profession.
fem_arch
fem_arc is a Berlin-based collective of architects working on projects from an intersectional angle. Since 2018, they have been critically examining power structures in space and the intersection of individual experiences of discrimination due to gender, race, economic status, ability, queerness, religion and others. Through formats such as talks, workshops, a podcast series, and audio walks they question norms and standards in their field and propagate spatial strategies that contribute to the production of non-discriminatory spaces.
WPS Prague
Women Public Space Prague (WPS Prague) is an independent, non-partisan network for women (but not only women) from diverse urban-related professions to share and exchange personal and professional experience, and support and promote the professional activities of women experts in the fields of architecture, urban design, urban planning, community life, education, cultural activities, art, and research related to public space/increasing the quality of urban life.
Parlour
Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation working to improve gender equity in architecture and the built environment professions. It's a space to speak – bringing together research, informed opinion and resources; generating debate and discussion; expanding the spaces for women in Australian architecture.
Parity Front
The Parity Front was established in July 2020 as an independent offshoot of the Parity Group. The main aim is to support the conversation beyond ETH to other schools, the profession and other disciplines. The main issues addressed include gender balance, representation, inclusion and harassment.
The Parity Group
The Parity Group is a fluid group of students, assistants and professors from the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich who meet to discuss issues around gender and diversity, organizing the yearly Parity Talks in March. Established in December 2014, the grassroots organization is centered around a core of about 20–30 people but counts anyone that shows up to a meeting as a member (even if it’s just once).
Womxn in Design
Womxn in Design (WiD) is a student run organization at Harvard Graduate School of Design committed to advancing gender equity in and through design. Led by womxn, but open to all, WiD works to make the design field more equitable and open in light of the historic under-representation of womxn in recognized leadership roles as well as design's critical need for diversity, collaboration, care, and re-centering marginalized voices.
Parity Board
To strengthen gender equality work at all levels of the department, a Parity Board was established by the Department of Architecture of the TU München at the end of 2019. It is to jointly develop goals and strategies for an equal-opportunities working environment at the TUM Department of Architecture. The initial goals are to anchor the department’s principles of equality and conduct continuous gender parity monitoring of the department, as well as achieve a clear institutional anchoring of the board.
The Parity Board is made up of members of the student body, junior staff, administration and faculty staff. It is currently an open body with no fixed number of members.
Drag Lab
The DRAG lab is a group of people studying, teaching or working at EPF Lausanne promoting parity and diversity in the architecture school through readings and discussions.
Gender Taskforce
The Gender Taskforce is a working group committed to improving gender equality and equity in architectural education based within the Koen Institute of the TU Graz.
Womxn in Design and Architecture
Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA) is a graduate student group formed in 2014 at Princeton University School of Architecture. Their annual conference celebrates the work and legacy of a pivotal architect or designer with contributions from international historians and scholars, in addition to artists, curators, and practitioners.
AAA Equality Collaborative
The AAA Equality Collaborative is an independent group of students and staff from the Aarhus School of Architecture staging discussions on Gender & Diversity in Architecture.
Querformat
Queer Group led by students at ETH Zurich’s Architecture Department, investigating the intersection between queerness and space.
Kittik
KITTIK is a collective created by a a group of assistants within existing hierarchies. They engage in online panels with external guests, roundtables with professors on working conditions, e.g., and are currently working in extending their reach and network with other institutions, schools of architecture, within universities of applied sciences.
Safe Space
Safe Space is an investigation on the meaning of diversity and representation in architecture, as well as the potentials of inclusive architectural education and practice in Norway. In public roundtable events with invited speakers, Safe Space Collective hosts conversations that cover topics from representation of minorities in the field, to housing discrimination, environmental injustice, and queer architectural practices.
Rebel Architette
A collective, open project raising awareness and promoting research and information around the recognition of the role of women architects – still too far from the spotlight – at the national and international levels. The ultimate aim of this project is to promote a heterogeneous and fair professional landscape where Women architects become reference figures for the new generations. By offering role models of excellence in the world of architecture to young female and male students, as well as juries, academics, organizers of exhibitions, and journalists, we want to guarantee a more inclusive and equal view of the profession.
fem_arch
fem_arc is a Berlin-based collective of architects working on projects from an intersectional angle. Since 2018, they have been critically examining power structures in space and the intersection of individual experiences of discrimination due to gender, race, economic status, ability, queerness, religion and others. Through formats such as talks, workshops, a podcast series, and audio walks they question norms and standards in their field and propagate spatial strategies that contribute to the production of non-discriminatory spaces.
WPS Prague
Women Public Space Prague (WPS Prague) is an independent, non-partisan network for women (but not only women) from diverse urban-related professions to share and exchange personal and professional experience, and support and promote the professional activities of women experts in the fields of architecture, urban design, urban planning, community life, education, cultural activities, art, and research related to public space/increasing the quality of urban life.
Parlour
Parlour is a research-based advocacy organisation working to improve gender equity in architecture and the built environment professions. It's a space to speak – bringing together research, informed opinion and resources; generating debate and discussion; expanding the spaces for women in Australian architecture.