Learning from Australia. Feminism in Architecture Education and Practice

Esta comunicación presenta los trabajos liderados por las arquitectas Naomi Stead y Janet McGaw desde varias Universidades australianas. En ellos el pensamiento feminista se incorpora a sus prácticas docentes e investigadoras fomentando con ello el debate sobre cómo la perspectiva de género fortalece las bases pedagógicas para una práctica docente y profesional más equitativa e inclusiva. Desde las Universidades de Queensland primero y Monash en la actualidad, Stead esta visibilizando la situación de desigualdad laboral de las arquitectas en el contexto australiano contemporáneo y propone soluciones a través de proyecto Parlour. Y, McGaw desarrolla talleres sobre ‘arquitecturas menores’ con planteamientos interdisciplinares y transversales afines al pensamiento eco-feminista y postcolonialista.This communication presents the works led by the architects Naomi Stead and Janet McGaw, based at several Australian universities. They share feminist approaches to their teaching and research practices, which encourage a deep debate on how the gender perspective strengthens pedagogical bases for a most equitable and inclusive teaching and professional practice. Base in the Universities of Queensland firstly and Monash nowadays, Stead is making visible the inequalities that female architects have in the contemporary Australian architecture discipline. Therefore, she is proposing solutions through the Parlour project. McGaw has been developing different workshops on ‘minor architecture’ with an interdisciplinary and transversal approach close to eco-feminist and postcolonialist thinking.Peer Reviewe