Gender and Academic Leadership in Architecture in India – Symposium at Avani Institute of Design

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Avani Institute of Design, Calicut, recently convened a research symposium on the topic of Gender and Academic Leadership in Architecture in India, which proposed to examine the engagement of women and persons of minoritized genders and sexualities in the construction of the academy, architectural knowledge, professional identity, and academic practice. The symposium was convened by Anuradha Chatterjee, Kush Patel and Madhavi Desai.  The Instant Proceedings bring together 24 position statements on feminist forms of leadership in architecture academia that we each presented at the closing roundtable.

COPYRIGHT: The authors retain the copyright of published contributions and these books are simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License that will allow others to share and build upon individual works non-commercially with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in these volumes as well as the licensing of new creations under identical terms. These were first published at https://avani.edu.in/events/researchsymposium  by Avani Institute of Design, Calicut.  

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