Diversity in Architecture - Intersectionality, Affective Politics, and Creating Change

Diversity in Architecture: Intersectionality, Affective Politics, and Creating Change explores diversity in architecture through an intersectional lens. It examines how overlapping individual identities, cultural ideologies, and institutional practices shape the profession.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
1. Intersectionality, architecture and affective politics
2. From Without Films
3. From Without On the small screen
4. From Within
5. Space of Education
6. Space of Practice
7. Space of Care
8. Conclusion and Towards Creating Change
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jan Smitheram is an academic at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches architecture design, communication and theory. Her research and pedagogy aim to construct a creative and critical dialogue between architecture practice, intersectionality, indigeneity and affect theory. Her work has been published in international journals, anthologies and conference proceedings.
Akari Nakai Kidd is an architectural educator, writer, and researcher at Deakin University, Australia. She is committed to the socio-ethical responsibility of architecture practice and education, through care and affect, extending into intersectionality. She is author of Affect, Architecture, and Practice (2021) and actively works with vulnerable communities to bring about co-designed futures together.

Product details

• Authors: Akari Nakai Kidd, Jan Smitheram, Jan Kidd Smitheram
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032479880
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247988-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Minorities in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Reference, Humanities, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Social classes, Philosophy and theory of education, Civil engineering, surveying & building, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Theory of architecture, Architecture: professional practice, Educational strategies and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building