Gender in the Built Environment

This inaugural discussion launches the Bangalore edition of the exhibition, “Expanding Agency and Archival Silences”. Panellists will foreground questions of gender and agency within spatial design practices in India, and lay the foundation for the upcoming walkthroughs, discussions, and workshops. Agency is negotiated, marked, and expanded in multiple ways.

In the current socio-political climate and technological transformation, why is it important not just to think about it, but to build practices that expand agency?

Particularly, why should it matter to architects, planners, and…