Programme

Thursday, 13th June

Conference Room 1 and 2, ESB Headquarters, 27 Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin, D02 KT92

1:30 – 2pmOpening words
2 – 4pm
Session One: Construction
(chaired by Kate Buckley)

Written in Stone: Eleanor Coade and the building world of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century
Professor Dana Arnold, Manchester School of Architecture

A Woman on the Margins: the Trailblazing Career of Mary Louise Schmidt
Jenna Snow and Dr. Andrea Thabet, Historic Preservation Consulting and Colburn School

Myriam Ratinoff, architect: A concrete programme
Dr. Gabriela García de Cortázar G., University of Chile
4 – 4:30pmCoffee break
Tea and coffee will be provided
4:30 – 6pmKeynote: THE Feminization of Architecture and Design
Nina Stritzler-Levine, Bard Graduate Center
6 – 8pmReception at Irish Architectural Archive
45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, D02 VY60

Friday, 14th June

F27 (Event Space), ESB Headquarters, 27 Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin, D02 KT92

10am – 12pmSession Two: Social Entrepreneurship
(chaired by Dr. George Francis-Kelly)

The Invisible Hand: Female Bureaucrats and Architecture of Foreign Aid in Post-Independence Kenya
Dr. Maryia Rusak, ETH Zurich

Maire Gullichsen and N
orrmark Handicraft: A Business Model Driven by the Idea of Social Responsibility
Sini Rinne-Kanto, Université Paris 8

Representing Black Women?: The Camille Cosby Academic Center, Black Philanthropy, and Architectural Design
Dr. E. James West, University College London
12 – 1:30pmLunch break
Lunch is not provided for attendees but there are plenty of places nearby to enjoy.
1:30 – 3:30pmSession Three: Developers
(chaired by Pooja Sastry)

“A Live Career for Women”: Housing and the Labour-Saving Interior
Dr. Alexandra Quantrill, Independent Scholar

Not Her Mother’s Suburb: Women, Modernism, and Real Estate Development
Professor Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University, and Dr. Mary Anne Hunting

Alternative Methods for Alternative Agents: The Architecture of Sr Stan and 1980s/90s Ireland
Dr. Ellen Rowley and Haylee Derrickson, University College Dublin
3:30 – 4pmCoffee break
Tea and coffee will be provided
4 – 5:30pmSession Four: Making Space
(chaired by Nokubekezela Mchunu)

Barbara Hill and The Most Intimate Coffee House in Perth
Dr. Andrew Murray, University of Melbourne

Lena’s Bookshop: Uncomfortable Knowledge, modern architecture and the building of a Southeast Asian space, 1976-2004
Dr. Eunice Seng, University of Hong Kong

Saturday, 15th June

Palatine Room, National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, D07 XKV4

10am – 12pmSession Five: Media
(chaired by Dr. Alborz Dianat)

Beauty in revolution: Late Ottoman feminists and the everyday aesthetics of home crafts
Damla Göre, ETH Zurich

Editors and Entrepreneurs: Women’s Writing on Architecture and Design in the Interwar Period
Alexendra Banister, Oxford Brookes
12 – 1:30pmLunch break
Lunch will be provided and a coffee truck will also be on site
1:15 – 2:30pmTour of Eileen Gray collection
2:30 – 5:00pmWalking tour of work by Grafton Architects, O’Donnell Tuomey, and McCullough Mulvin