How Would Cities Be Different if They Were Designed by Women? Panel discussion

Jos Boys is Senior Lecturer in Environments for Learning in the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London. She was a founder member of Matrix feminist architecture and research collective in the 1980s and one of the authors of Making Space: Women and the Man-made Environment. Since that time she has worked as a journalist, researcher, consultant, educator and photographer, and has published several books. She is the co-founder and director of The Dis/Ordinary Architecture Project, bringing disabled artists into architectural education and practice to critically and creatively re-think access and inclusion.

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Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She is the author of Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development and Urban Citizenship, Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World and Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies.

Katrine Marçal is a bestselling author on women and innovation. Her first book, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?, has been translated into more than 20 languages and was named one of the Guardian’s books of the year in 2015. Her most recent book is Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men. She works for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

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Sian Norris is a writer and journalist specialising in reproductive and LGBTIQ rights. She is the founder of the Bristol Women’s Literature Festival and a regular speaker and contributor with Bristol Ideas.