​INCLUSIVE DESIGN TRAJECTORIES

THE FEMALE VOICES IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

OCTOBER 6, 2021

17th International Architecture Exhibition, “How Will We Live Together?” Venice Biennale 2021; “Resilient Communities”, Italian Pavilion; “CityX”, Virtual Italian Pavilion. The presenters will represent a cross section of diverse points of view from around the globe. Presenters will highlight the role that she and other female collaborators have played in the success of her work and also address challenges that are faced. Paring together panelists from similar ethnic backgrounds.

ORGANIZED AND MODERATED BY:

Maria R. Perbellini, Dean and Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology

Gertrudis Brens, Visiting Professor and Interim Director Interior Design Department, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology

Farzana Gandhi, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology

PANELISTS:

SUCHI REDDY, FOUNDER, REDDYMADE NYC

Suchi Reddy is the founding principal of Reddymade. The guiding principle of the practice is “form follows feeling,” a design ethos informed by neuroaesthetics, the study of how the brain responds to the design of our surroundings. The strong belief that good design, calibrated carefully to the human, positively influences wellbeing, creativity, and productivity informs all projects from conception to details. In 2019, Reddy was appointed the Plym Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois School of Architecture, Champaign–Urbana, where her work focused on contemporary architectural experience through the lens of neuroaesthetics, neurophenomenology, and sensory design. Reddy has lectured on the firm’s work at numerous venues including The Salk Institute for the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture’s annual conference, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin. She sits on the board of the Design Trust for Public Space, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Madame Architect; she is on the Dean’s Board of Advisors at Detroit Mercy School of Architecture.

Mariana Ibañez, Associate Professor and Chair, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Founder and Principal, Ibanez Kim

Mariana Ibañez is an Argentinian architect involved in practice, academia, and research. She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA and the cofounder of Ibañez Kim, a genre-defiant practice that works with sensate materials, atmospheres, and new media to generate architecture, objects, and cities. Their work focuses on the disciplinary core of architecture and its growing periphery, with a focus on the relationship between technology, culture, and the environment. Before joining UCLA, Mariana taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for over a decade and for the past four years at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. As an author, Mariana has published two edited volumes, Paradigms in Computing by Routledge and Organization or Design? by a+t. She has also written numerous articles and chapters for Wiley and Sons, Harvard Design Magazine, ACTAR, Routledge, and others. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the MAXII museum in Rome, and The National Art Museum in Beijing with projects including work for the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Biennale in Seoul. Mariana received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and her Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London.