***We are opening ticket sales back up! We have had so much enthusiasm for the event and are going to accommodate more people. With the RSVP - Last Chance ticket type, a workshop spot and meals are not guaranteed. We are a student group working on a tight budget and we welcome any other donations here: https://www.gofundme.com/a-convergence-women-in-design.***  10/11/2018

***Due to unforeseen interest in the Convergence, we will now be selling tickets to the event. Please send us a note at women.in.design@gsd.harvard.edu if you are interested in attending, but the ticket fee is prohibitive. Our main goal is to make the event accessible to all. Thank you!***  

About the Convergence

This convergence marks the formation of a regional network of equity-focused design school student groups. We have a chance to grow and merge the many individual conversations happening in our departments and in our schools. The Shitty Architecture Men list did not tell us anything we did not already know; however, it did spark broad conversation in places where there had been uneasy silence. We must not return to that silence. We must interrogate aspects of architecture and design that have been traditionally defined by and built for a white patriarchal world. We must engage in a collective restructuring of the design disciplines and actively question the nature of design work and how gender and our other identities intersect in that work.

Agenda 

Friday, November 2^nd

5:15 pm Keynote Speaker

Jha D, Senior Associate, MASS Design Group; Spoken Word Artist; Founder and Co-host of 'Feel it, Speak it' Open Mic

6:30 pm Beer and Dogs Mixer

Co-hosted with LatinGSD and Admissions Office

Saturday, November 3rd

ALL DAY Installation Build + Exhibits on display

8:00-9:30 am Check-in

8:30 am Light Breakfast

9:30 am Panel Discussion: Power

Stephanie Lee (moderator, MIT), Amber N. Wiley (Rutgers), Chandra Rouse (GSD), Meral Ekincioglu (MIT, Harvard), Teresa Gali-Izard (GSD, UVA), Bryony Roberts (GSAPP)

10:45 am Concurrent Workshops

Identity Workshop with Rosetta Lee

Masculinities Workshop with Andrew Westover

Intersectionality Workshop with Sa-Kiera Hudson

Wikipedia Workshop with GSD WiD

12:00 pm Lunch

1:15 pm Panel Discussion: Pedagogy

Abby Spinak (moderator, GSD), Sonja Dumpelmann (GSD), Hansy Better Barraza (RISD), Sai Balakrishnan (GSD), Andrea Merrett (ArchiteXX), Ang Li (Northeastern)

2:30 pm Pecha Kucha

Architecture Lobby, ArchiteXX, Columbia University GSAPPXX, Georgia Institute of Technology Women in Architecture, Harvard University GSD AASU, Harvard University GSD LatinGSD, Harvard University GSD Women in Design, Madame Architect, Massachusetts Institute of Technology NOMAS, Rhode Island School of Design NOMAS, University of Pennsylvania PennDesign Women in Design, University of Virginia MANIFESTA, Yale School of Architecture Equality in Design

4:15 pm Panel Discussion: Activism

Jeana Dunlap (moderator, Loeb Fellow), Jen Grosso (ArchiteXX), Jess Myers (MIT), Peggy Deamer (Yale), Maya Harakawa (CUNY), Sasha Costanza-Chock (MIT)

5:30 pm Collaborative Installation Build + Happy Hour