CONFERENCE: VISIONS OF WELFARE 2023
We are inviting you to Visions of Welfare, a three-day international conference discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States, co-hosted by the Women of the Welfare Landscape Project, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB), and the Women in Danish Architecture project. Speakers for the final day of hybrid presentations will include SAHGB leaders Dr. Elizabeth Darling, Chair, Dr. Luca Csepely-Knorr, Education Officer (co-organiser), and Holly Smith, student winner of the 2022 SAHGB ‘Hawksmoor’ medal.
The conference will comprise a series of fully online afternoon sessions on Tuesday 2nd and 8th May.
It concludes with a hybrid event hosted at the Garden Museum in London on Monday 15th May.
Presentations will consider the role of women in creating the spaces of the period of post-war Welfare States internationally with the aim of looking beyond individual achievements and professional boundaries. The conference will build on and further complicate recent, more discursive historiographies that better represent the complexity of how, and by whom, a built environment is formed and emphasise the diversity of women’s practices.
Tickets to this day conference at the Garden Museum also include access to two days of online sessions hosted by the SAHGB on Tues 2 and Tues 9 May.
The full Visions of Welfare programme is available here.
GARDEN MUSEUM DAY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: 15 May 2023
09:30 – 10:00 Arrivals
10:00 – 11:00 Introductory Roundtable Discussion
Luca Csepely-Knorr, Elizabeth Darling, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner
11:15 – 13:00 Session 1
Salvatore Dellaria, Cornell University: “How People Wanted to Live”: The Southgate Estate and its Hidden History of Failure
Holly Smith, University College London: Management and Maternalism: Joan Demers (Estate Manager) and the construction of a respectable community at the Park Hill estate, 1959-1965
Eve Pennington, University of Manchester: Subverting the State? Working-class Women’s Transformation of Planned Spaces in Skelmersdale New Town, c.1970-1989
Noemí Gómez Lobo & Kana Ueda, University of the Basque Country, ETH Zurich: Rebuilding Japan through women’s magazines: Miho Hamaguchi’s postwar housing lessons
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 2
Helena Mattsson, KTH: Radical Bureaucracy: Women and Full-scale Experiment
Meike Schalk, KTH: Invisible Collectivity – Women in Large Architectural Offices in Sweden
Lisa Kinch, Lancaster University: Beyond the Operator: The Women Connecting the Welfare State
15:45 – 17:00 Session 3
Joy Burgess, University of Liverpool: Landscape Design as a ‘Self-Sown Seedling’
Sally Watson, University of Newcastle: ‘All Children need the opportunity to play’…. Women’s Play Advocacy in the making of homes for today and tomorrow
Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, KTH: Post Welfare Environments: Three women defining the Swedish environmental agenda from the 1980s
6pm – Talk Diana Armstrong Bell: Greening the Desert
Please note, tickets for the evening lecture Greening the Desert are booked separately from the day conference, here. Day conference ticketholders get free entry by using the discount code we’ll send in your confirmation email.
Booking information (Conference participation with code for booking ‘Greening the Desert’)
£60 Standard
£45 Student
£25 Livestream
All tickets include access to the online sessions on 2nd and 9th May. Access links will be emailed to ticketholders.