Time and Place
Location: Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture & Urbanism sponsored by HGA (AUP146) – UWM Campus – 2131 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Spatializing Reproductive Justice
Spatializing Reproductive Justice is a traveling exhibition and programming series that aims to spread awareness of the inequities of reproductive care in the United States and the agency of design fields to expand access. Learning from past and present reproductive and sexual health justice movements, the project addresses the spatial, legal, and social logistics of reproductive healthcare access in the United States after the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Student work from a collective of design studios investigates how the intersecting and compounding factors of race, class, and gender impact an individual’s access to care, and offer speculative design proposals for facilities, systems, and networks enabling reproductive care access. The exhibition fosters a dialogue among designers, healthcare providers, advocates, and students to explore how practitioners of the built environment can respond to and support reproductive justice in the US. SRJ is supported, in part, by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Lori Brown
Syracuse University School
ArchiteXX
Lindsay Harkema
WIP Collaborative
Cornell AAP
City College of New York
Barnard College
Bryony Roberts
Bryony Roberts Studio
WIP Collaborative
Columbia GSAPP
Natalya Dikhanov
FLUFFFF Studio
Sadie Imae
FLUFFFF Studio
Pratt Institute
Morgan State University
University of Maryland
The Center for 21st Century Studies Reproductive Justice Collaboratory + Experts from the Field of Reproductive Justice in the Greater Milwaukee/Wisconsin Region
BIO
ArchiteXX:
ArchiteXX is a 501c3 non-profit organization for gender equity in architecture transforming the profession by bridging the academy and practice. As a cross-generational group of academics and practitioners, they are dedicated to the advancement of all women-identified, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and allied individuals. The group encourages and promotes leadership and retention of women and diverse voices in the discipline, and works to redefine what contemporary success is and how value is understood and compensated.
WIP Collaborative:
WIP Community is a supportive network of Women In Practice that offers a space for sharing experience, resources, and ideas, and where new opportunities for collaboration can emerge. Founded on feminist principles, WIP supports those who eschew patriarchal conventions and define new narratives of architectural practice through their work.
FLUFFFF Studio:
FLUFFFF is a design studio exploring the intersections of human-derived architecture and our non-human counterparts. The name “fluff” pulls from a rich tradition of women’s work and craft that was designed out during western modernism – deemed un-autonomous and therefore superfluous and no longer valid. We honor the entangled nature of craft and being, embracing fellow fluffy and not-fluffy non-human models of symbiogenesis, and strive for a more collaborative, inclusive design practice.
For more information contact Architecture Chair Karl Wallick.
